“In the ’80s, I was very much into playing fast and wanting to be the best. Later on I realized it was just a waste of time”: Europe’s John Norum on the one guitar he kept from the Final Countdown era, and what he learned from Don Dokken

John Norum.

If there is one thing that John Norum knows how to do it is picking up an electric guitar and teasing a melody out of it. This is a skill that has served him well over the years. 

His ear for a hook has made Europe one of hard rock’s most enduring bands, with a catalog populated by tracks that once heard are never forgotten.