Gyllene Tider (Golden Times)
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Side A: Per's liner notes.EMI Studio 2 in Stockholm was very small, hot and a bad little box who couldn't impress anyone except five pale youngsters from Halmstad. We walked in in August '79 and were very excited by the sight of all the buttons and lights and JBL speakers and Studer tape recorders and... I'll be damned, they even had a multiline telephone???!!! We had met Lindbom a few times earlier, he had been down in Harplinge and checked a rehearsal (I remember him: purple gym shoes in the middle of the slushy weather, VERY impressive...). We liked him! He understood us and even fixed high alcohol beer to Fritzson at Victoria in Kungsträdgården... Björne Boström soon joined the team. A happy fellow from the south who knew his story of rock and never failed to favor a pop thief...We had no problems whatsoever to get along... We really loved recording! Everything worked, from start to end. The first one was "När ni faller..." And I’ll never forget how we passed the first cassette copy around in a single-room with tripple beds at Hotel Mornington (which had a weekend offer...) Really exciting! Unbelievable sound! We even dared to let our friends from Halmstad listen so they could understand how good we were! Kjell Andersson on EMI was of course our lead star. It was he who wrote the contract with us and he was our critic and judge. The things that Kjelle didn't like, we didn't record, that's how easy it was! The recording took 6 weeks. Mats and I stayed in Stockholm and were in on mixing the 13 recordings. "Åh Ziggy Stardust" (our homage to Bowie) luckily didn't make it onto the finished LP, but it is on this CD. "Marie i växeln" was recorded somewhat later for Kjelle’s project "Parlophone Pop" which was a joint recording with chosen parts of from EMI Sweden. Both "Ziggy" and "Marie i växeln" were on this record. On "Marie i växeln" we used Nicke Strömstedt on VOX organ and Janne Anderson played the guitar solo if I remember correctly.... yes that's right. "24 December" was actually our first record on the Parlophone label!! It was on the sadly underrated Christmas record "Glitter, Glögg & Rock 'n' Roll!" which was released shortly before the new decade. I remember the photo sessions for the "Glitter..." cover at Torbjörn Calvero’s. We were completely thrilled! We were on the same picture as Skifs, Lundell, Magnus Lindberg & Peter O. Totally amazing! I had my Halmia-scarf on me to honor the day. The "Gyllene Tider"-LP was released in the beginning of 1980 and by then "Flickorna på TV2" had started to ravage the airwaves. We toured constantly, our first gig was at Village in Stockholm, and our first TV-program was Måndagsbörsen, live (Micke broke a drumstick, I had a vest and a red tie). I remember the first interview with Kaj Kindvall in Poporama. We had reached 2nd place with "Flickorna..." (Pink Floyd won with "Another Brick in the wall") and he asked how come they had received over 300 postcards from Halmstad with nearly identical motives, dogs and flowers. I said that we had a very large fan club... To be honest we in the band and a couple of our close friends had been lying on the floor for 6 hours at Mats’ home in Harplinge and written postcards and voted for Gyllene Tider until the pencils caught on fire... In July the LP and the single sold gold (50.000 and 25.000 respectively). Party at Atlantic in Stockholm where we used to hang out. Later during the coming year the album was to sell another 100.000 so that's a pretty good start... Important happenings:
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