| Tages discography | |
|---|---|
 Tages posing with a copy of their debut single "Sleep Little Girl" (1964). | |
| Studio albums | 6 |
| EPs | 6 |
| Live albums | 1 |
| Compilation albums | 16 |
| Singles | 30 |
Tages were a Swedish rock quintet who were originally professionally active between 1963 and 1970. [1] During their original tenure, they released six studio albums, three compilation albums, five extended plays and 26 singles in Sweden. [2] Between November 1964 and February 1968, Tages were considered one of the four most popular bands in Sweden, [3] [4] [nb 1] with 13 of their singles reaching the top-10 of the national record chart Tio i Topp including two number one singles. [5] [nb 2] The band also released a string of commercially successful studio albums, with two of them, Tages (1965) and Tages 2 (1966) selling over 10,000 copies each in Sweden, enough for them to be certified gold. [6] [7] [8] Towards the end of the 1960s, Tages' popularity started diminishing, charting their final top-10 single in February 1968. [5] Lead vocalist Tommy Blom left the band at the end of their folkpark tour in August 1968. [9] [10] The group continued on as a quartet, with the group's sixth studio album and five final singles being released under the name Blond, [11] a name which was chosen by the band's management who believed it to be more internationally viable. [12] [13] They broke up during the summer of 1970 after several personnel changes. [1]
Contents
- Studio albums
- Studio albums 2
- Live albums
- Compilation albums
- EPs
- Singles
- References
- Footnotes
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
Tages' first 10 singles and three studio albums were released in Sweden by Platina Records, an independent record label founded by Evert Jakobsson. [14] [15] The band had signed a contract with the label in in September 1964. [14] Platina was distributed by EMI Records starting in 1965, [15] [13] causing singles by Tages' released in the UK during this time period to appear on several EMI sublabels, including Columbia and His Master's Voice. [16] Tages' founded their own publishing company Segat AB during the spring of 1966, [nb 3] who assured that "income reached the right [band members] pockets", contrary to many other publishing companies during the 1960s. [13] Platina's contract with Tages expired on New Year's Day 1967, upon which they opted to sign a contract with Parlophone instead. [17] [10] This caused Jakobsson to issue archival material by Tages' on Platina concurrently to their new releases on Parlophone in an act of retaliation. [18] In preperation for a potential international breakthrough, Tages' new manager Richard-Reese Edwards got the band signed to Fontana Records, negotiating an advance of $50,000 (equal to ($415,426 in 2023), a sum previously unheard by a Swedish pop group. [19]
Starting with two unauthorized albums compiled by Jakobsson during the 1960s, [18] Tages' music has been collected on several compilation albums. [10] As the band's masters were owned by three seperate record labels, the band's early compilation albums were restricted to the material each label had the rights to. [20] In 1983, Jakobsson licensed an album's worth of his Tages' Platina masters to EMI, who were putting together the compilation album Tages, 1964-68! [21] [20] Later during the 1980s, Sven-Åke Peterson of EMI negotiated with Jakobsson, purchasing the masters from him. [22] In 1994, the 3-CD career-spanning box set This One's For You was released, containing almost every recording by Tages' under that name. [22] The Blond recordings are still owned by Universal Music Group, [22] who issued all of their material with the band on the 2003 reissue of The Lilac Years. [23]