The Monroes (Norwegian band)
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The Monroes was a Norwegian
pop
/ska
duo that held significant popularity in Norway in the 1980s. The band consisted of guitarist Eivind Rølles and vocalist Lage Fossheim. Their biggest hit was "Sunday People". Their first album (of the same name), released in 1983, sold over 130,000 copies in Norway. Their follow-up album, Face Another Day, released in 1985, sold over 250,000 copies in Norway. Their hit song "Cheerio" from Face Another Day was remade by the popular Norwegian musical duo Ravi
& DJ Løv, with the title changed to "Tsjeriåu".
The band was strongly influenced by the English band Madness
.
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...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
/ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
duo that held significant popularity in Norway in the 1980s. The band consisted of guitarist Eivind Rølles and vocalist Lage Fossheim. Their biggest hit was "Sunday People". Their first album (of the same name), released in 1983, sold over 130,000 copies in Norway. Their follow-up album, Face Another Day, released in 1985, sold over 250,000 copies in Norway. Their hit song "Cheerio" from Face Another Day was remade by the popular Norwegian musical duo Ravi
Ravi (Ivar Johansen)
Ivar Christian Johansen is a Norwegian popular musician under the pseudonym Ravi . He writes songs with Anders Løvlie under the name Ravi og DJ Løv....
& DJ Løv, with the title changed to "Tsjeriåu".
The band was strongly influenced by the English band Madness
Madness (band)
In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...
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Discography
- 1983 Sunday People (Bahama Records)
- 1985 Face Another Day (EMI)
- 1987 Everything's Forgiven (EMI)
- 1993 Long Way Home (BMG / EMI)
- 1993 Absolute Monroes (Eva Records) (Compilation)
External links
- The Monroes i NRK Artist