bob morrison wrote the song you're the one.
bob morrison wrote the song you're the one.
who wrote the song you're the one?
bob morrison
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the album was recorded in abbey road studios in london over a period of two weeks. the band entered the studio with ten songs and produced them with dave cobb. the song "gto" originates from a riff composed by john norum. the band was looking for an up-tempo song for the album, so norum presented his idea for the riff. he worked on that riff with cobb in the studio and later joey tempest co-wrote the lyrics with cobb. lyrically, it became a song about cars, love of the road and freedom. musically, it was influenced by deep purple, particularily by their 1972 hit "highway star". the song "pictures" originates from an idea that tempest had in mind for some years. he had half of the verse in his head for a while and, a few weeks before the final rehearsal, while at his parents' house, he wrote the second part of the verse. after that, he presented it to the band and producer and they all loved it because it was different. lyrically, the song is a sequel to the band's 1986 hit "the final countdown". the band co-wrote it with musician aaron raitiere, a friend of cobb's from nashville; tempest wrote the lyric about what happened to the people who left the ground in 1986 and headed for venus. "wolves" is a political song about a whistleblower who had to move away with his family because he told the truth about something; the lyrics mention metaphorical wolves, which are hounding him in a situation where nobody trusts anybody. the introto the song was done with an old recording technique on an old tape recorder; tempest's vocal range and the arrangements are also different from the rest. tempest originally had in mind for a band to do a concept album, but after a while he realised that europe is a rock band after all, so he and the band decided to have every song unfold in the studio, where they wrote and arranged everything together. joey originally wanted to do some research, so he met a college professor to learn from him about how democracy as we see it today came to be, where and how and when it happened at different points of time. however, tempest's research was limited and just a few songs touched upon political themes, namely "the siege", "kingdom united", "wolves" and "election day". the song "the siege" is about the events in the french revolution, when napoleon started to defeat the aristocrats, marking the start of democracy started france. "election day" is an observational song about elections going on simultaneously in the united states and england. chris difford, from the band squeeze, helped tempest co-write the lyrics on "election day" and "kingdom united". the song "turn to dust" musically originates from an idea by keyboardist mic michaeli. the band had tried to work it out for each of their previous albums, but this time tempest actually managed to push the band to finish the song. the song title is also michaeli's idea. lyrically, the song is warning people to not waste their time. tempest explained: "i may have forgotten to send those letters and say those words to people i know, but there's still a chance to do it. it was a great ending to the album". on the album, the song ends abruply in the very middle on the main riff [in a style vaguely reminiscent of the ending to the beatles' 1969 song "i want you (she's so heavy)]", and it is followed by a very short instrumental track with no title, also by michaeli, which sounds like it was recorded in the 1930s. "walk the earth" is a positive rebirth song.
walk the earth