New Love in Town

"New Love in Town"
Single by Europe
from the album Last Look at Eden
Released 3 September 2009 (Scandinavia)
2 October 2009 (Europe)
24 January 2010 (UK)
Format Digital download
Genre Rock, hard rock
Label earMUSIC
Writer(s) Joey Tempest, Mic Michaeli, Andreas Carlsson, Europe
Producer(s) Tobias Lindell, Europe
Europe singles chronology
"Last Look at Eden"
(2009)		 "New Love in Town"
(2009)		 "Not Supposed to Sing the Blues"
(2012)

"New Love in Town" is a hard rock ballad, that became is the second single to be released from the Swedish heavy metal band Europe's eighth studio album, Last Look at Eden. The single was released as a digital download on 3 September 2009. It was written about Joey Tempest's son's birth.

In August 2009, Europe went to Gothenburg to work with director Patric Ullaeus on the video for the single.[1][2] The video was premiered on Europe's MySpace page on 5 September 2009.[3]

Chris Evans once described it on his BBC Radio 2 breakfast show as "[Europe] doing their best Bon Jovi impression".

Track listing

UK maxi single

  1. "New Love in Town" (Joey Tempest, Mic Michaeli, Andreas Carlsson, Europe) – 3:33
  2. "The Beast" (Joey Tempest, John Levén, Europe) – 3:23
  3. "Last Look at Eden" [live] (Joey Tempest, Andreas Carlsson, Europe) – 4:49

Personnel

Chart positions

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Swedish Singles Chart[4] 15

References

  1. ↑ "Europe back to Gothenburg". revolver.se. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  2. ↑ http://www.revolver.se/musicvideos/musicvideos.html
  3. ↑ http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=7751236&blogId=508400165
  4. ↑ "Swedish Singles Chart". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2009-11-07.