via Lola Norumhead John Norum - Europe - Interview Exclusive Written by Tazz Stander Thursday, 15 July 2010 06:00 PART 1 John Norum could be described as the guy who left Europe just as they became famous, he is described as one of the best guitar players in the industry by Rich Ward of Stuck Mojo / Fozzy fame, hes a dad and hes recently suffered one of the biggest losses in his life when his wife passed away. Hes down to earth and easy to talk to. After a few frustrating minutes, I finally manage to get through to him in Sweden whilst humming the keyboard intro to The Final Countdown into the phone ... did he hear me, I still wonder?! Your seventh studio album, Play Yard Blues, was released on the 5th of July. How did you come up with the name for it? Well, the studio where I recorded it is called Play Yard Studios and so I thought I would just call the album Play Yard something and then with having my son on the front cover - I was thinking of him in a play yard - actually, I dont even know if there is a word like Play Yard but in America they have one but they might not call it the same in the UK. I was quite interested in the title because of the way it had been spelt, almost like a double meaning. Play Yard as in playground or it could denote that you were playing Yard Blues and it made me wonder if you were starting up a whole new genre of blues. (Laughing) I was thinking about that too. Is it really word play because as you said, its usually playground. It could be quite interesting coming up with my own words here. It was really from the name of the studio but also its me and my son, we are in the playground or yard and we got the blues obviously because we had the tragedy in the family a couple of years ago, so the album is dedicated to my late wife. I wanted our son to be on the cover as well as a tribute from both of us. youtube/watch?v=M9zhEQuRWzI
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