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| Released | 18 February 1980 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
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Gyllene Tider was released on 18 February 1980 and is the debut studio album by Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider. The album peaked at number one on the Swedish Albums Chart and number 27 on the Norwegian Albums Chart. [1]
As of July 1981, the album had sold 150,000 copies in Sweden since its release. [2]
Side A
Side B
All lyrics written by Per Gessle. All music written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson if nothing else is mentioned.
Gyllene Tider has been re-released on CD twice. First time in 1990, then with three bonus tracks:
The other re-release was a digipack-CD with the EP Gyllene Tider as bonus record.
| Chart (1980–1981) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [3] | 27 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [4] | 1 |
Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was disbanded after her death in 2019. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and topped the charts in the US four times, most notably with "It Must Have Been Love" which was featured in the film Pretty Woman. Prior to the formation of Roxette, he had a successful career in his native Sweden as the frontman for Gyllene Tider. The band released three number-one albums during the early 1980s but disbanded shortly after their fourth album, The Heartland Café (1984).
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"När vi två blir en", written by Per Gessle, also known by the refrain's opening line "Jag vill känna din kropp emot min", is a song with lyrics describing teenage love, released as a single on 29 October 1980 by pop group Gyllene Tider. Göran Fritzson wrote the Farfisa intro and the hook. Gyllene Tider also recorded the song with lyrics in English, as "Beating Heart", releasing it as a promotional single on 1 September 1981 using the group name Modern Times.
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"Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly" is a song written by Per Gessle and Mats "MP" Persson, recorded by Gyllene Tider and released as a single on 27 May 1980. It peaked at number eight on the Swedish singles chart.
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