🎼26 May 1986. Who remembers this one?☝️🤔
Yes, it's 35 years today that Swedish rock band #Europe released their most famous album, The Final Countdown. It has been an iconic record for my generation, I personally started my "rock life" thanks to that and the same happened to many people of my age.. and the thing is that we all still clearly remember!😃
#TheFinalCountdown charted n.1 all over the world and sold millions of copies mainly thanks to its epic titletrack 🤟, literally everyone was singing it that year, my "not proper rockers" parents too 😳
The story behind it's an incredible one, to testify once more how life goes... #vocalist Joey Tempest wrote the intro of The Final Countdown many years before, he wanted it to be the intro to their concerts, then he just forgot it! When #guitarist John Norum heard it in 1985 he insisted to write a proper song as intro number for their next new album. Nobody of them believed much in it... and of course it became their most famous hit ! 😁
In the Chat Room...👇
#26May

🎼18 August 1986. It's 35 years today 😳 that the keyboards 🎹 of David Bryan introduced Slippery When Wet, 3rd studio album by American hard rock band Bon Jovi👇
3 months before #Europe already paved the way with The Final Countdown (for related post click here 👉 #26May), but it's with the release of Slippery When Wet that Hard Rock & Heavy Metal had their final breakthough in all charts! As many of my generation, I personally started listening to this music genre thanks to Europe and Bon Jovi! 💪🎸🔥
Slippery When Wet, along with some terrific singles such as You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer, and Wanted Dead or Alive, sold some 30 million copies worldwide and #BonJovi became the hugest hard rock band in the world for some years🤟😈
... and I have to say they still today live on that success, so Let it Rock !!! #MusicHistory #18August

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🎼21 August 1951. Wow, what a week for rock singers! 😳
Ian Gillan on the 19th☝️ Robert Plant on the 20th☝️ and today Happy 70th Birthday 🥳🍾 to Mr. Glenn Hughes, born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England.
Referred as The Voice of Rock, #GlennHughes is a legendary #vocalist and #bassist, having been a member of Trapeze, #DeepPurple and #BlackSabbath in the 70s and 80s and today fronting the hard rock supergroups Black Country Communion and The Dead Daisies! 🤟🎸🎙
His collaborations and guest appearances throughout his long career in the rock and heavy metal scene are literally uncountable. A true living legend, like Plant and Gillan!
In the Chat Room👇a song he wrote as a solo artist in early 90s, where his outstanding voice is at the🔝🔥... ah, all other musicians in this video are members of the rock band #Europe...

#21August

⚡️#TheMondayRecharger
Got this mindblowing riff in my head. #Europe... yes those Europe, can you believe it?
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You all have a nice Monday!

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