Stage Dolls is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

/glam metal

Glam metal

Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 band based in Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. In 1982, Erlend Antonsen and Terje Storli played at local clubs in and around Trondheim. In need of a guitarist they called on Torstein Flakne, who by then had finished playing in The Kids (a popular teeny-band in Norway 1980-82). Throughout the summer and fall of 1982 the newly formed band started rehearsing and playing shows in the region. The trio took the name Stage Dolls in January 1983. The first album, titled Soldiers gun

Soldiers gun

Soldier's Gun is the first studio album by the Norwegian hard rock band Stage Dolls. The album was recorded in the fall of 1984 at Nidaros Studios in Trondheim, Norway with the same producer, Bjørn Nessjø, and engineer, Rune Nordahl, as fellow Trondheim hard-rockers TNT...

, was released in the early winter of 1985 after a successful nationwide tour in Norway supporting the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 band TNT

TNT (band)

TNT is a Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1982. The band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two live albums while going through numerous line-up changes since its formation...

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Antonsen left the band in 1985 and was replaced by Steinar Krokstad; he in turn left in 1993 and was replaced by Morten Skogstad.

The recordings for their next album ’Commandos’ started in the fall 1985. It peaked at no.8 in the Norwegian charts (VG)

Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

 and set the band up as one of the most popular rockbands in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 in 1986. The album was released in the US by Chysalis Records and the title track ’Commandos’ gained considerable airplay on college-radio.

The self-titled third album was recorded in the fall of 1987. It made it to the top of the charts in Norway, and in 1989 the band released the album on Chrysalis Records for the American market. The single ’Love Cries’ went to number 46 on the Billboard Singles Charts the same year. A second single for the song "Still In Love" was also released in America.

Current line-up

• Torstein Flakne
  Torstein Flakne
  Torstein Flakne is the founder of the Norwegian band Stage Dolls. He is from Melhus and played in the band The Kids before founding Stage Dolls in 1985.-References:...
  
   - Guitar and vocals (1983–present)
• Terje Storli - Bass (1983–present)
• Morten Skogstad
  Morten Skogstad
  Morten Skogstad is the drummer in the Norwegian hard rock/glam metal band Stage Dolls. He joined the band in 1993, replacing Steinar Krokstad....
  
   - Drums and percussion (1993–present)

Former members

• Erlend Antonsen - Drums and percussion (1983–1985)
• Steinar Krokstad - Drums and percussion (1985–1993)

Albums

• Soldier's Gun (1985)
• Commandos
  Commandos (album)
  Commandos is the second studio album by Norwegian hard rock band Stage Dolls. Like the first album it was recorded at Nidaros Studios in Trondheim, Norway using the same producer, Bjørn Nessjø, and engineer, Rune Nordahl....
  
  (1986)
• Stage Dolls
  Stage Dolls (album)
  Stage Dolls is the third studio album by Norwegian hard rock band Stage Dolls. Like the first two albums it was recorded in Trondheim, Norway using the same producer, Bjørn Nessjø, and engineer, Rune Nordahl.The album was released in U.S.A...
  
  (1988)
• Stripped (1991)
• Dig (1997)
• Get a Life (2004)
• Get a Live (2005) - live CD + bonus DVD
• Commandos (Remastered) (2006) - the 20th anniversary reissue
• Always (2010)

Compilations

• Stories We Could Tell (1993)
• Good Times - The Essential Stage Dolls (2002) (2 cd)