Gyllene Tider

Gyllene Tider is a Swedish pop band. Gyllene Tider means 'Golden Age' in English. Few Swedes have not heard the song "Sommartider", oft-heard during the late spring and early summer. The band is well-known for its catchy choruses and light-weight lyrics.

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In 1977, Per Gessle met Mats Persson, a member of the band Audiovisuellt Angrepp, forming the duo Grape Rock. Later Micke Andersson, Anders Herrlin and Göran Fritzon joined and the quintet was born. The group's name was changed to Gyllene Tider.

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1977 - Per Gessle - Mats Persson - Audiovisuellt Angrepp - Grape Rock - Micke Andersson - Anders Herrlin - Göran Fritzon

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1978 - The band had become a group of local celebrities in Halmstad for their Christmas-concerts. They took advantage of this and released their quite rare vinyl ep; Billy. The record sold in about 900 copies.

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In 1979, the LP Gyllene Tider was released, becoming a huge success in Sweden. Flickorna på TV2 was the biggest hit on that album.

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1979 - Sweden

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The second album was released in 1981 under the name Moderna Tider and also enjoyed huge success. It was followed up by a national tour. The next year Puls was released with the hits Sommartider and Flickan i en Cole-Porter-sång.

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The group tried to break through to the American market in 1984 with the album Heartland (a six track mini version of the album The Heartland Café released in Sweden) under the name Roxette. But it failed and the album flopped after selling about 8,000 copies.

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American - Roxette

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In 1985 the group officially broke up. But in the years following a few "Greatest hits" albums were released and a few reunions took place, in particular their immensely popular comeback tour in 1996.

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In 2004 the band celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary with the first new album after 20 years and a big summer tour in July and August. The tour called GT25 was a huge success, in fact it was the biggest tour in Scandinavia ever and the second largest in whole Europe of all times, gathering large crowds all over Sweden. When they performed at Ullevi stadium in Göteborg during the GT25, 58 977 fans watched the concert live (later it was broadcast on SVT).

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Ullevi - Göteborg - SVT

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