★ Monthly Mock-Ups! ★ October ★

Our October Mock-Up is something different, “An Imaginary Band – Soundtrack to a Swedish Novel” – The Lonely Boys revisited…

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The Lonely Boys

★ An Imaginary Band – Soundtrack to a Swedish Novel ★

The Lonely Boys… De ensamma pojkarna.

What to say? I’ve loved the album ever since day 1. But I only like Per’s songs, and The Rolling Stones cover that never was actually recorded by them. You can hear they’re having fun!

No, the production doesn’t sound 1965, even though they used old equipment, but I don’t think Michael Ilbert cared much about that.

It was a much welcome, and unexpected side project, something totally different.

Who are The Lonely Boys?

Taken from the Original Press Release (Translated by Thomas1):

The Lonely Boys was from the beginning the name of a novel written by the Swedish writer Mats Olsson.
The story was about a young rhythm’n’pop band located in the south of Sweden circa 1965.

Mats asked me and a mutual friend Nisse Hellberg if the two of us could provide a soundtrack for this book,
writing and recording what could in fact be The Lonely Boys‘ debut album.

What a wonderful idea. A soundtrack to a book. It must be a first.

So, Nisse and I formed The Lonely Boys together with some friends and
recorded the album in 6 days and nights. Did we have a ball!

All of the 14 songs are originals except Jagger/Richards’ “So Much In Love“.
The Rolling Stones never recorded it but The Inmates did. And now The Lonely Boys.

To get the sound we wanted we used only equipment from the era;
reverbs, echo chambers, amplifiers, guitars, microphones.
Everything in our power was done to make the record “for real“.

The debut album by a Swedish rhythm’n pop band 1965.

Nisse can usually be found in the rhythm’n blues combo Wilmer X.
And myself is paying the rent with money made from Roxette records.
We plan it to stay that way.

This is a one-off project for both of us that we enjoyed enormously.

Lots of laughs, lots of beer and a lot of love for the ’60s.
Don’t you wanna come?

Per Gessle : Roxette
Stockholm, March 1996

Our Mock-Up Design

Visually, our mock-up takes its lead straight from the original ‘The Lonely Boys…’ album artwork, designed by Kjell Andersson and Stegania Malmsten, with photography by Lena Koller.

It’s a really cool old-school LP design so we’ve kept ours true to that era. Lots of logos and wackiness. We’ve bolted on the Demo EP we were treated to last year, as well as a few other related demos we’re aware of.