Year : 1991 (Rock Candy Remastered 2024)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 158 mb
Bio:
Europe is a Swedish hard rock/heavy metal band formed in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson and drummer Tony Reno. Since its formation, Europe has released nine studio albums, three live albums, three compilations and nineteen videos.Europe rose to international fame in the 1980s with its third album The Final Countdown (1986), which became a substantial commercial success and sold over three million copies in the United States.The band was a pioneering force in the glam metal/blues metal genres and their third album,The Final Countdown, is considered a masterpiece of the genres. Europe was one of the most successful rock acts of the 1980s and sold over 20 million albums worldwide.The band has achieved two top 20 albums on the Billboard 200 chart (The Final Countdown and Out of This World) and two top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ("The Final Countdown" and "Carrie").Europe went on hiatus in 1992, reunited temporarily for a one-off performance in Stockholm on New Year's Eve 1999 and announced an official reunion in 2003. Since then the band has released four albums, Start from the Dark (2004), Secret Society (2006), Last Look at Eden (2009) and Bag of Bones (2012). Europe will release its tenth album, War of Kings, in 2015.The band is mainly influenced by Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, UFO and Michael Schenker Group.
Album:
Swedish rockers Europe‘s fifth studio album Prisoners In Paradise has been reissued via Rock Candy Records.Prisoners in Paradise is the fifth studio album by the Swedish rock band Europe.It was released on 23 September 1991 by Epic Records and spawned hits such as the title track, "Prisoners in Paradise" and "I'll Cry for You".The album did not chart in the US, which is unusual for a major label follow-up to two recent (multi)platinum albums.Prisoners in Paradise is the last album to feature guitarist Kee Marcello.The band's guitarist Kee Marcello states in his 2011 biography that Bob Rock was the first choice for producer for this album, and agreed initially but pulled out to work on Metallica's eponymous album instead. The large number of finished bonus tracks is also explained in this book: the first version of this album, called "Seventh Sign" was rejected by the label in 1990 and the band had to write and record new songs.Five more tracks were demoed in addition to the 25 listed below; two of them were rewritten and became "New Love in Town" on Last Look at Eden and "Bring it All Home" on Bag of Bones. Most of the unreleased songs down below can be found on YouTube as demo recordings. Two of the previously unreleased tracks, "Wild Child" and "Don't Know How to Love No More" were re-recorded for Kee Marcello's 2016 solo album "Scaling Up" on Frontiers Records.
Line Up:
Joey Tempest – lead vocals
Kee Marcello – guitar, backing vocals (live tracks on 2001 'Metal Masters' re-release only)
John Norum – guitar, backing vocals
John Levén – bass guitar
Ian Haugland – drums, backing vocals
Mic Michaeli – keyboards, backing vocals
+ guest:
Nate Winger, Paul Winger – background vocals
Production:
Recorded At – Enterprise Studios
Mixed At – Enterprise Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Glass Mastered At – DADC Austria
Made By – DADC Austria
Art Direction – Tony Sellari
Engineer [Assisted By] – Martin "That'll Take Some Time" Horenburg
Engineer, Mixed By – Jimmy "The Looove Doctor" Hoyson*
Illustration – Mark Wilkinson
Management [Europe Management: San Francisco] – Herbie Herbert, Sandy Einstein
Management [Europe Management: Stockholm] – Thomas Johansson, Tor Nielsen
Mastered By – Ted Jensen
Photography By – Jeff Katz
Producer, Mixed By – Beau "Now That's Excitement" Hill
Tracklist:
01. All Or Nothing
02. Halfway To Heaven
03. I'll Cry For You
04. Little Bit Of Lovin'
05. Talk To Me
06. Seventh Sign
07. Prisoners In Paradise
08. Bad Blood
09. Homeland
10. Got Your Mind In The Gutter
11. 'Til My Heart Beats Down Your Door
12. Girl From Lebanon
+ Video "Prisoners In Paradise" (Official Video)
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