The Lonely Boys
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| Origin | Sweden |
The Lonely Boys (in Swedish, ”De Ensamma Pojkarna”) is a fiction book by Swedish author Mats Olsson about a young rhythym band from the south of Sweden in 1965.
Per Gessle (of Roxette fame) was asked to write a soundtrack to the book, and so the band "The Lonely Boys" came into existence and the debut album by this 1965 band was released in 1995.
The Band went to great lengths to make the sound authentic 1960's; from the lyrical content (Why did Adam have to fall in love with Eve) to the authentic instruments and amplifiers used in the recording process. The album is set out as two sides of an LP (although it was available on LP in Sweden), including crackles of the needle on the turntable and a pause in between the two sides as the record is turned over.
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[edit] Band Members
The Lonely Boys consists of
- Lasse Göransson (aka Thomas Holst) on Bass Guitar
- Roland Bergström (aka MP Persson) on Vocals, Hammond organs and Piano
- Kalle Johansson (aka Micke Syd Andersson) on drums and tambourine
- Thomas Nyberg (aka Per Gessle) on rhythm guitar and vocals
- Richard Andersson (aka Nisse Hellberg) on lead guitar, harmonica, maraccas, tambourine and vocals
[edit] The Songs
There are 14 songs on the album, with the only cover version being "So Much In Love", which was written by Jagger and Richards of The Rolling Stones (although the Stones never recorded a version, The Inmates did).
Side One: Lonely Boys (Gessle) - Lead vocals Per (with Nisse), Per on lead guitar, Nisse on fuzz guitar. String quartet arrangement by Clarence Öfwerman. I'm Not Like You (Hellberg) - Lead vocals Nisse (with Per), Per on acoustic guitar. Keep the Radio On (This is the Perfect Song) (Gessle) - Lead vocals Per (with Nisse), MP on 12-string guitar. September Girl (Hellberg) - Lead vocals Nisse. Adam & Eve (Gessle) - Lead vocals Nisse (with Per). I Wanna Be With You (Gessle) - Lead vocals Per (with Nisse), MP on Mellotron, 12-string guitar & lead guitar. Fuzzy Puss (Instrumental) (Hellberg) - Nisse on fuzz guitar, MP on drums
Side Two: So Much In Love (Jagger-Richards) - Lead vocals Nisse (with Per). Flowers on the Moon (Hellberg) - Lead vocals Per (with Nisse), Nisse on acoustic-& 12-string guitar, lead guitar, MP on bongos & Mellotron. Let Go of My Heart (Hellberg) - Lead vocals Nisse. Apple in the Mud (Gessle) - Lead vocals Per (with Nisse), Per on lead guitar, MP on acoustic guitar. Pretty Little Devil (With Angel Eyes) (Hellberg) - Lead vocals Nisse. Genius Gone Wrong (Gessle) - Lead vocals Per (with Nisse), Per on 12-string solo guitar & piano, MP on guitar and 12-string guitar. Days to Come, Days of Gold (Hellberg) - Lead vocals Nisse, Thomas on guitar.
[edit] Musical Analysis
Hellberg and Gessle took inspiration from almost all of the most popular 1960's bands from The Beatles to The Rolling Stones. While 13 of the 14 songs where written in the 1990's for this project, the sound is authentically 1960's.
A couple of the songs sound like pure Gessle. "Keep the Radio On" could easily have been a lost 1980's Roxette hit, while "I Wanna Be With You" is an extremely catchy 90's song. The Demo of "I Wanna Be With You" can be found on the CD-Single Do You Wanna Be My Baby? from Per's 1997 english album The World According To Gessle.
You just have to smile when "Fuzzy Puss" comes on to close the first half of the album - classic 1960's fun in the studio!
[edit] External links
The Lonely Boys [1]
Pearls of Per [2]
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