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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Jackson Maxwell

The demo was “dreadful” and the main riff drove the guitarist crazy – but with some inspiration from Yngwie Malmsteen, it became one of the biggest rock songs of the ’80s

Europe's Joey Tempest (left) and John Norum perform onstage at the Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Hall in Derby, England on August 16, 2009.

If you've ever been to, well, pretty much any kind of sporting event, and stayed until the end, there's a pretty good chance you've heard it – that battle cry, siren song of a keyboard riff.

The song it kicks off its truly emblematic of its era – you think of the evil Ivan Drago pumping iron, getting ready to beat the hell out of the heroic Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV (even though, to be absolutely clear, it is not in that movie).

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