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The first incarnation of the band was named Force and came together in 1979, in Upplands Väsby, Stockholm, and was integrated by vocalist and keyboardist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson and drummer Tony Reno.

" I remember when we started the band Force we were playing covers in the rehearsal room, because we just wanted to learn our instruments, like all bands ," Tempest said, " Then one day I said maybe we should do our own stuff.

Nobody had any ideas, so I brought mine into the rehearsal room, and that is when we started writing our own stuff.