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The Book - Preface

Sometimes they still exist, these fairytales of pop music and the popular stories of brave musicians who want to tell the world how to dance. Or at least get a contract. The story of musicians who were rejected first and then celebrated by millions.

In their beginnings the cheerful pop community Ace of Base had to listen to some benevolant advices of so called experts as well. Their music was too versatile, they said. The audience would be overtaxed with the big amount of ideas of the two componists Jonas "Joker" Berggren and Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg. But in their small studio the music fanatics continued to fiddle with their extraordinary mixture of dancefloor, techno, reggae and very lyrical pop-music. A wise decision as the first record company who listened to it could not resist: Mega Records loved the Ace of Base sound and so financed their first track "Wheel of fortune". And from then on the success could not be stopped. A fairytale had begun...

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