Slipped into Tomorrow

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Slipped into Tomorrow
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Studio album by
Released26 November 1999 [1]
StudioFirst Take Studio & Studio Subsonic, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre Hard rock
Length52:12
Label Mascot (Europe)
Shrapnel (US)
Toshiba/EMI (Japan)
Producer John Norum
John Norum chronology
Face It Live '97
(1997)
Slipped into Tomorrow
(1999)
Optimus
(2005)

Slipped into Tomorrow is the fifth solo album by John Norum, the guitarist for Swedish hard rock band Europe, released in 1999.

Contents

The album features a cover version of the Thin Lizzy song "Killer Without a Cause".

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Track listing

  1. "Still in the Game" (John Norum, Billy White) - 3:49
  2. "Waiting on You" (Norum) - 3:32
  3. "Blackscape" (Norum, Fredrik Åkesson) - 5:14
  4. "Tico's Life" (Norum) - 4:58
  5. "Nobody Answers" (Norum) - 4:53
  6. "Losing My Mind" (Norum) - 6:12
  7. "Freedom Is My Truth" (Norum) - 4:19
  8. "Veda" (Norum, Michelle Meldrum) - 4:42
  9. "Songs of Yesterday" (Norum, Meldrum) - 4:44
  10. "Killer Without a Cause" (Scott Gorham, Phil Lynott) - 4:06
  11. "Center of Balance" (Live) (Norum, Kelly Keeling, Peter Baltes, Simon Wright) - 6:26

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References

  1. Slipped Into Tomorrow (1999) – JOHN NORUM official website