‘Spandex and big hair weren’t my thing’: how Europe made The Final Countdown

We play it so much better now – it swings’ …the band in the 1980s Photograph: -

Joey Tempest, singer, writer

When I was young, I wanted to be an astronaut. I loved flying and space travel. My dad was a flight captain and he’d take me up in his plane. I remember having to be quiet in the cockpit because of the black box, so nobody knew I was there.