‘Spandex and big hair weren’t my thing’: how Europe made The Final Countdown
Joey Tempest, singer, writer When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I loved flying and space travel. My dad was a flight captain and he’d take me up in his plane.
Joey Tempest, singer, writer
When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I loved flying and space travel. My dad was a flight captain and he’d take me up in his plane. I remember having to be quiet in the cockpit because of the black box, so nobody knew I was there.
The first single I bought was David Bowie’s Space Oddity and I always wondered why the Major Tom character was up there in space, floating “in a tin can”. When I wrote the Final Countdown
