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EUROPE
1986 - The Final Countdown.
1988 - Out Of This World.
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May 26, 1986 - 2021: 35 years of: The Final Countdown.

Sweden's EUROPE is: big hair & big hits ! 80s synonymous hardrock is still going strong, since their 2003 return. Seminal arena-rock from head-to-toe. The Americas got their asses hand-delivered on a silver-platter, and for a little while, EUROPE was on top of the rocknroll food-chain.

Call them Europe's BON JOVI or the Scandinavian DEF LEPPARD, Joey Tempest remains one of rocknroll's strongest voice... the voice of a generation !

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Then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IKcMl_a9A
...and now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxmKJlDqYC4

August 5, 1988 - 2023: 35 years of: Out Of This World.

Keep on rockin' that road !

Following the universal success of 1986's The Final Countdown LP, the arenas were now fully assaulted by ...arenarock. Attacked from both sides of the Atlantic, the loud-rock was real. The lovely race for mega tunes fuelled by mega attitude ...and Sweden's EUROPE was a top runner.

The opening-cut "Superstitious" keeps the flame burning bright. Keyboards and heavenly back-vocals, the signature is imminent and strong. More suave hardrock pierce from "Just The Beginning" and the crunch of "Lights And Shadows".

Raw-rock rear it's ugly head on "Let The Good Times Rock" and the headbangin' "Ready Or Not", while another high-quality powerballad rocks, in the form of the sincere FM-cut "Open Your Heart". The best of US and UK melodic loud-rock in one accessible package: EUROPE is that band.

Major line-up change, as key-guitarist and founding-member John Norum had left during the last tour, we now welcome Kee Marcello in front of the Marshalls stacks.

RIAA-certified Platinum, the band would later make a turn in the new decade, with 1991's party-rock Prisoners In Paradise CD ...sadly released the same day as some Nevermind titled CD.

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Superstitous = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gU5Vg2JokU
Open Your Heart = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4LC1HBmag
Let The Good Times Rock = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FckTNOTwEk
Out Of This World = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUqntgGHMs&list=OLAK5uy_ljzx7JOqKfHS_7nB1Lg8EqXOEuAavMfCs
Interview in 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvZn5JmFb-U
Live in Tokyo in 1988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf0Dt7y6H8w