''Gyllene Tider'' was released on 18 February 1980 and is the debut studio album by Swedish pop group

Gyllene Tider Gyllene Tider (; "Golden Times") was a Swedish pop group fronted by Roxette singer, guitarist and songwriter Per Gessle. They were one of the best-selling Swedish bands ever and have had numerous hits in Scandinavia, starting with the break-th ...

. The album peaked at number one on the

Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan (, lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish R ...

and number 27 on the

Norwegian Albums Chart VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart. It is presented weekly in the newspaper '' VG''. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continents around the world. The data are collected by Nie ...

. As of July 1981, the album had sold 150,000 copies in Sweden since its release.

Track listing

Side A #" Skicka ett vykort, älskling" ("Send Me a Postcard") (music by R. van Leeuven) #"Himmel no. 7" #"Revolver upp" #" Flickorna på TV 2" #"(Dansar inte lika bra som) Sjömän" #"Sista gången jag såg Annie" Side B #"Billy" (words & music: Per Gessle) #"Fån telefon" #"När ni faller faller ni hårt" #" Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly" #"Guld" All lyrics written by

Per Gessle Per Håkan Gessle (; born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the male half and primary songwriter of the Swedish pop rock duo Roxette, which he formed with Marie Fredriksson in 1986 and which was d ...

. All music written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson if nothing else is mentioned.

''Gyllene Tider'' on CD

''Gyllene Tider'' has been re-released on CD twice. First time in 1990, then with three bonus tracks: *"24 December" (earlier released on Christmas compilation album ''Glitter, glögg & rock'n roll'') *"Åh Ziggy Stardust (var blev du av?)" *"Marie i växeln" The other re-release was a digipack-CD with the EP ''

'' as bonus record.

Charts

References

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