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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN

“Selling England By The Pound changed everything. I was totally blown away by it.”

“I grew up in a musical family. Everyone was classically-trained opera singers or violinists and I was the youngest. For my fifth birthday, I and that changed everything. There’s the pedal chords, inverted chords, diminished chords, suspended chords – there’s all this stuff harmonically going on and I was totally blown away by it. It was like opening a door and seeing a vast universe that I’d never seen before.

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