The Lonely Boys


The Lonely Boys is a fiction book by Swedish author Mats Olsson about a young rhythm'n'pop band from the south of Sweden in 1965.
Per Gessle was asked by Mats Olsson to write a soundtrack to follow the book, and so the band "The Lonely Boys" came into existence and the debut album by this 1965 fictitious band was released in December 1995. The members of the band consisted of members from the two swedish popbands Wilmer X and Gyllene Tider.
The band went to great lengths to make the sound authentic 1960s; from the lyrical content to the authentic instruments and amplifiers used in the recording process. The album is set out as two sides of an LP, including crackles of the needle on the turntable and a pause in between the two sides as the record is turned over.

Band members

The Lonely Boys consists of:
There are 14 songs on the album, with the only cover version being "So Much In Love", which was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.