Gyllene Tider was released on 18 February 1980 and is the debut album from Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 pop group

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...

 Gyllene Tider

Gyllene Tider

Gyllene Tider is a Swedish pop group. The name Gyllene Tider translates as "Golden ages" or "Golden times". Few Scandinavians would not recognize the band's most famous song "Sommartider", often played on the radio during late spring and early summer...

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Track listing

Side A

1. Skicka ett vykort, älskling (covering Shocking Blue
   Shocking Blue
   Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 1967. Their biggest hit, "Venus", went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970, and the band had sold 13.5 million discs by 1973, but the group disbanded in 1974.-Members:...
   
   's Send Me a Postcard, written by R. van Leeuven)
2. Himmel no. 7
3. Revolver upp
4. Flickorna på TV 2
5. (Dansar inte lika bra som) Sjömän
6. Sista gången jag såg Annie

Side B

1. Billy (words & music: Per Gessle)
2. Fån telefon
3. När ni faller faller ni hårt
4. Ska vi älska, så ska vi älska till Buddy Holly
   Buddy Holly
   Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
   
   
5. Guld

All lyrics written by Per Gessle

Per Gessle

Per Håkan Gessle is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie Fredriksson...

. All music written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson if nothing else is mentioned.

Gyllene Tider on CD

Gyllene Tider has been re-released on CD twice. First time in 1990, then with three bonus tracks:

• 24 December (earlier released on Christmas compilation album Glitter, glögg & rock'n roll)
• Åh Ziggy Stardust (var blev du av?)
• Marie i växeln

The other re-release was a digipack-CD with the EP

Extended play

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 Gyllene Tider

Gyllene Tider (EP)

Gyllene Tider , is a promo EP from Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider, released in November 1978 and released in 900 copies. It should not be confused with the Gyllene Tider EP, which was released in 1996....

as bonus record.