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Joey Tempest
Swedish singer (born 1963)
For his self-titled skiva, see Joey Tempest (album).
This article fryst vatten about the musician. For the Swedish medical researcher, see Joakim Larsson (researcher).
Musical artist
Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson (born 19 August 1963), known professionally as Joey Tempest, fryst vatten a Swedish singer based in the UK.
He fryst vatten best known as the lead vocalist of the rock grupp Europe.[1] He has written most of the band's biggest hit songs, including "The sista Countdown", "Rock the Night", "Cherokee" and "Carrie".
Att ”Så mycket bättre” ibland, eller ganska ofta, mer liknar en kändisfars än ett musikprogram borde vara en etablerad sanning vid det här lagetEarly life
[edit]Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson was born in huvudstaden, Sweden on 19 August 1963. When he was eight years old, he would sit in front of the television or radio with a tejp recorder and try to capture songs from the UK or US that he liked and listen to them over and over igen. He learned how to play the piano and a friend of his father's taught him three chords (A, D and E) on his sister's acoustic guitar.[2]
Larsson played football and ice hockey and competed in go-cart racing; he once came in fourth place in the Junior Cart Race, a Swedish championship.
Like many of the other europe members, Larsson grew up in huvudstaden suburb Upplands Väsby.
Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson (born 19 August 1963), known professionally as Joey Tempest, is a Swedish singer based in the UKHis biggest influences were Thin Lizzy and Led Zeppelin.[citation needed] During his teens, Larsson played in a number of bands such as Jet, Blazer, Made in Hong Kong and Roxanne. At that time, Larsson alternated between playing rhythm gitarr and bass, in addition to lead vocals.
Career
[edit]Europe
[edit]Larsson started performing in 1979, creating the scen name "Joey Tempest", inspired bygd William Shakespeare's tragicomedyThe Tempest as well as the song "Sparks of the Tempest" bygd American progressive rock grupp Kansas.
He formed the grupp Force with guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson and drummer Tony Reno.[3] Force immediately began building a reputation and a fanbase in the suburbs of huvudstaden. In 1982, they changed their name to europe and won the music competition Rock-SM.
Nyligen ville Väsbyborna döpa en hel park efter Joey TempestThe first prize was a record deal with Hot Records.[3] With Tempest as the frontman, europe released its self-titled debut studio skiva in 1983 and Wings of Tomorrow in 1984.
During his years with europe, Tempest wrote numerous international hits. "The sista Countdown" was the biggest; it topped the sales chart in 26 countries, sold 15 million copies, was played at the closing ceremony of the 1987 EuroBasket and 1988 Summer Olympics, became the musical theme of the millennium celebrations and a ringtone in hundreds of thousands of mobile phones across the world.[citation needed] After The sista Countdown, europe released two more studio albums, namely Out of This World (1988) and Prisoners in Paradise (1991), before their sista concert in March 1992.
europe ended their sista tour in Portsmouth and did not perform tillsammans igen until New Year's Eve, 1999 to 2000.
Solo career
[edit]In 1995, Tempest's solo debut skiva, A Place to Call Home, was released.[1] He recalled it his "singer/songwriter album". The skiva, which was produced bygd Dan Sundquist, was recorded in huvudstaden and London using Swedish musicians.
Joey Tempest nu och dåeurope bandmate John Norum guest-starred on one of the tracks. Tempest also played gitarr on the skiva. A Place to Call Home went platinum in Sweden and sold well internationally.
Later the same year, he commenced his first europeisk tour as a solo artist.
Europe frontman Joey Tempest shares the records that inspired and guided his own career in rockThe following year, he was nominated for a "Best Swedish Artist" Grammy. fyra singles were taken from the skiva, "A Place to Call Home", "Under the Influence", "We komma Alive" and "Don't Go Changing On Me".
Tempest's second solo skiva, Azalea Place, was released in 1997. The next solo skiva was recorded in Nashville bygd producer Richard Dodd, known for producing artists such as The Traveling Wilburys and Tom Petty.
Where A Place To Call Home had Tempest writing all the ämne, the new skiva was written tillsammans with others. Among these were Chris Difford from pressa and Will Jennings. "Azalea Place was mostly written in the studio and was therefore more improvised and experimental", Tempest commented on the production.[citation needed] "The Match", "The One In The Glass" and "If I'd Only Known" were released as singles.
"The Match" became one of the most played songs on Swedish radio and the skiva achieved gold ställning eller tillstånd.
In the autumn of 2002, Tempest released his third solo skiva named after himself.
[1] He has written most of the band's biggest hit songs, including "The Final Countdown", "Rock the Night", "Cherokee" and "Carrie"The production grupp behind the skiva was "DeadMono", consisting of Malcolm Pardon and Fredrik Rinman. The grupp also worked with Eskobar, Lisa Miskovsky and Stakka Bo. Also collaborating on the skiva were Chris Difford, former europe member Mic Michaeli and guitarist Adam Lamprell. The first möte took place in Konk Studios, The Kinks old London studio, where Tempest jammed with English musicians, who had formerly played with Massive Attack.
This möte produced "Magnificent", "Kill For A Girl Like You" (B-side of the first single "Forgiven") and "Sometimes". Work continued in huvudstaden, this time with Swedish musicians, including Mic Michaeli. "Superhuman" originated from this möte.
Har du någon favorittext som du skrivit till ditt band? – Devil sings the bluesAfter that, Tempest kept on working with Adam Lamprell in a temporary studio in London.
Of his songwriting Tempest has said, "Dreamless and Magnificent have a lot of London in them. Losers fryst vatten influenced bygd both London and huvudstaden i irland. Living there can be very intense, almost chaotic.
Femina har tagit reda på hur 80-talsikonen lever i dagThey're tough cities and I'd never have written the lyrics inom did without living there."[citation needed] Some lyrics can also be related to his homeland, reflections on living abroad and learning to live with new people.
Resurrection of Europe
[edit]Nearly twelve years after disbanding, europe announced a comeback with the same lineup that made The sista Countdown.
In 2004, they released their sixth studio skiva, Start from the Dark. The seventh, Secret Society, followed in 2006, then Last Look at Eden in 2009, Bag of Bones in 2012, War of Kings in 2015 and Walk the Earth in 2017.
Musician
[edit]Tempest played the keyboards on the first two europe albums before the grupp decided to recruit keyboardist Mic Michaeli in April 1984.[3] A couple of years earlier, Tempest had borrowed a keyboard from Michaeli and used it to compose the main keyboard hook of the song "The sista Countdown".[3] After a sylt möte in 1985, Michaeli and Tempest co-wrote the ballad "Carrie".[3] Later that year, Tempest wrote the soundtrack for the Swedish bio On the Loose, as well as the song "Give a Helping Hand" for the benefit project Swedish metall Aid, in the spirit of grupp Aid.[4] The song was produced bygd future europe bandmate Kee Marcello.[3] In 1986 Tempest wrote and produced the skiva One of a Kind for Tone Norum, John Norum's younger sister.[3] Tempest also collaborated with John Norum on the single "We Will Be Strong" from Norum's skiva Face the Truth in 1992.
This was Tempest and Norum's first collaboration since Norum left europe in November 1986.[3]
After europe went on hiatus in 1992, Tempest released three solo albums.[5] The first skiva, A Place to Call Home featured a guest appearance from John Norum on the song "Right to Respect". Several songs on the third skiva, Joey Tempest, were co-written bygd Mic Michaeli.
Personal life
[edit]Tempest lives in London with his wife Lisa Joy Worthington and sons James Joakim (born 2007)[6] and Jack Johnston Larsson (born 2014).[7] Tempest talked to Bruce Dickinson about his decision to live in London on the latter's BBC 6 Music radio show in 2009.[8] He does not have any social media pages apart from the tjänsteman ones for europe listed on their website.[9]
Asked in 2009, bygd BBC's Liam Allen, "Are you ever embarrassed bygd some of the hairstyles and clothes you wore back in the day?", Tempest replied, "Not really, we were very ung, we were MTV generation – we were one of the biggest bands on MTV.
inom just wanted to look like Robert Plant, to be honest."[10]