1. Joey Tempest is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Europe.
12 Facts About Joey Tempest
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Joey Tempest learned how to play the piano and a friend of his father's taught him three chords on his sister's acoustic guitar.
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Larsson started performing in 1979, creating the stage name "Joey Tempest", inspired by William Shakespeare's tragicomedy The Tempest as well as the song "Sparks of the Tempest" by American progressive rock band Kansas.
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Joey Tempest formed the band Force with guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson and drummer Tony Reno.
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Where A Place To Call Home had Joey Tempest writing all the material, the new album was written together with others.
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The first session took place in Konk Studios, The Kinks old London studio, where Joey Tempest jammed with English musicians, who had formerly played with Massive Attack.
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Joey Tempest played the keyboards on the first two Europe albums before the band decided to recruit keyboardist Mic Michaeli in April 1984.
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Later that year, Joey Tempest wrote the soundtrack for the Swedish film On the Loose, as well as the song "Give a Helping Hand" for the benefit project Swedish Metal Aid, in the spirit of Band Aid.
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In 1986 Joey Tempest wrote and produced the album One of a Kind for Tone Norum, John Norum's younger sister.
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Joey Tempest collaborated with John Norum on the single "We Will Be Strong" from Norum's album Face the Truth in 1992.
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Several songs on the third album, Joey Tempest, were co-written by Mic Michaeli.
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Joey Tempest talked to Bruce Dickinson about his decision to live in London on the latter's BBC 6 Music radio show in 2009.