Joey Tempest reveals the release date of Europe’s documentary

During a September 24 appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Europe frontman Joey Tempest provided an update on the band’s upcoming documentary, as per Blabbermouth. Produced and directed by Craig Hooper (known for his work with Deep Purple and Saxon) alongside Coolhead Productions, the film covers the long-running Swedish hard rock group’s complete history from their initial formation to the present day. The feature chronicles their mid-1980s commercial rise, subsequent hardships, millennium reunion, and their current phase of career success.

It’s actually narrated, edited. It’s done. We’re looking for a platform to get it out, and we have just now started having some meetings. It’s done. It’s so emotional. It’s the whole journey. It’s the ’80s. It’s the ’90s when a few of the guys didn’t do really well, and it was fighting our way back. And it’s a really good journey, and a time document, obviously, of that time as well. Yeah, we’ll see it beginning of next year. That’s my guess, and I hope this time it sticks.

But what will be in the documentary?

We’re actually editing some bits now, because it takes time to finish it, so now we wanna bring it up to today. So hopefully we can start with something really fresh, and then we dive back to very beginning. And we got some great footage. Our first manager, Thomas Erdtman — you may have met him way back. He was in New York with me when we were younger. He walked around in the ’80s with this big movie, film camera. I don’t know how big they were, but they were huge. And we were, like, ‘What are you doing? Why are you filming that? Why are you filming us when we’re partying in hotel rooms? Why are you filming us when we’re here?’ But he was, like, ‘Oh, it’s good to have.’ ‘All right, whatever.’ So we have a box of [videos of us] partying in hotel rooms in, in Japan, San Francisco as well, Tokyo and San Francisco, and it’s all in the documentary, very early days. So that makes it more interesting, gives it more depth, those early, early films.

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