Inspired by Bowie’s Space Oddity, Joey Tempest of the Swedish band Europe wrote the main riff for The Final Countdown on a borrowed Korg Polysix way back in ‘81, eventually demoing it for his ...
The synth riff that sold a thousand insurance policies arrived in U.S. record stores on May 26, 1986. Though they were new to American audiences, Europe had been around in their native Sweden in one ...