EUROPE
The first mega-successful musical export from Sweden since Abba comes in the somewhat unlikely form of Europe, a straight-ahead quintet who've cracked the Top 10 in over a dozen countries with their hit album The Final Countdown. And, if their success was unlikely, it was no weirder than their first big break: they won a record contract in 1982 in a national competition among Swedish rock bands.
July 2, 1987
EUROPE
The first mega-successful musical export from Sweden since Abba comes in the somewhat unlikely form of Europe, a straight-ahead quintet who've cracked the Top 10 in over a dozen countries with their hit album The Final Countdown.
