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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2024
- Today, the 13th of December 2023 it is exactly 40 years ago since the band GHOST started.
To celebrate this we re-recorded the first song we ever wrote for the band, that same evening.
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You can download the track here in full resolution
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A rough translation of the scan of the original page that appears in the first part of the video goes something like:
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It's afternoon the 13th of December 1983.
A postponed birthday party takes place at the home of Anders Måreby.
The evening comes and all the guest have left except two.
The ones who stayed are Dan Swanö and Gabriel Thörnblad.
They sit down by Anders Yamaha organ and start to play a bit.
After a while they decided to form a group together.
The original idea was to just re-arrange the songs from Anders and Dan's
previous band OVER ALL KINGS but "Klockornas Klang" received that
treatment (based on the Over All Kings track "Plötsligt Ringer Telefonen" ("Suddenly the Phone")
What about the name?
We came up with it the first night, Dan said.
It inspired by one of the presents, a glow in the dark Playmobil Ghost
The first rehearsals was in Anders basement, and the instruments was made up from pots and children's toys (!!)
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The duo of Anders Måreby and Dan Swanö was first joined by Gabriel Thörnblad for the first few rehearsal, then quit. Dag's older brother Dag was incredibly important to the development of the band and helped out on Bass or Guitar on stage, and also produced our most classic recordings and played bass and guitar on them as well (Can be found on the CD/DLP "Ghost 1983-1988") For a few shows Patrik Selsfors helped out on guitar, and Dag played bass.
In the spring of 1987 Per Runesson joined on bass.
Around a year later Björn Eriksson (Vocals) and Peter Edwinzon (Guitars/Keyboards) joined as well, and as a 5 piece we did a few shows, then in the summer of '88 we changed our name to Icarus, played a few shows, and in the autumn of 1988 Icarus became Unicorn. And the rest if history!
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A translation into English of the Swedish lyrics would go something like
"The Chime of the Bells"
It is night.
The church bells are ringing so beautifully
Some people wake up
They are waiting for the stroke of twelve
Then you can hear The Chime of the Bells
Yeah, they want to hear The Chime of the Bells
And we want to hear The Chime of the Bells
It was night
The church bells rang so beautifully
And I long for the night to be here
Then you can hear The Chime of the Bells
Yeah, I want to hear The Chime of the Bells
And we want to hear The Chime of the Bells
Yeah, we want to hear The Chime of the Bells
