Johansson is son of the well-known Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson and brother of the heavy metal drummer Anders Johansson. In 1982, the classically trained Johansson left the jazz fusion band Slem and joined the Swedish metal band Silver Mountain, which also included Anders. In 1983 he left Sweden for California and joined guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen as a member of his band, Rising Force. Numerous records and world tours ensued and he stayed with Yngwie until 1989. Johansson also played with the band Dio between 1989 and 1990. Like Anders, he began an ongoing collaboration with Jonas Hellborg in 1989 which has resulted in several well-received progressive and avant-garde recordings, including Dissident, Silent Run (an acoustic piano trio record with Ginger Baker on drums) and the hard core progressive fusion record, E.
In 1993, Johansson co-founded a progressive blues metal project, The Johansson Brothers, and recorded a self-titled record. In 1996, with a different line-up, they recorded another album, Sonic Winter, this time under the name "Johansson", with Yngwie Malmsteen guesting on guitar. The last Johansson record, The Last Viking, a more "European metal" oriented album, was released in 1999 with special guests Michael Romeo and Göran Edman.
Johansson has released several instrumental solo records such as Fjäderlösa Tvåfotingar, Ten Seasons (a piano solo album improvised in the Mark Kostabi gallery, New York), Heavy Machinery (with Anders and Allan Holdsworth) and Fission (with Anders, Shawn Lane and Mike Stern) and many collaborations with other artists, metal compilations and Berends Brothers' band Mastermind.
He co-founded Heptagon Records to distribute his own recordings and that of other musicians, such as guitarist Benny Jansson and bassist Magnus Rosén.
Johansson auditioned for Dream Theater after Kevin Moore left the band in 1994. Despite his technical prowess, Johansson was not accepted into the band. Some sources state[citation needed] that if he had joined he would not have been allowed to participate in the songwriting process until the band was certain Johansson was suitable. Apparently, Johansson lost his interest in the keyboardist spot after this.[citation needed]
He joined the power metal band Stratovarius in 1995 and has remained since, still releasing solo albums and appearing as a guest or session musician in other projects.
Close To You
Johansson Lyrics
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Thought so in the past, it didn't last
I always ways the last to know, but now
I'm going with the flow, I have to know
close to you, close to you, I don't want
To think it through
Dreams are coming true
Close to you, close to you, all my
Dreams are coming true, they're
Coming true
I never used to have a doubt, nothing
Was waiting to come out, but now I
Doubt
They say that love is never blind, but
Now I think I lost my mind, I'm going
Blind
In Johansson's song Close to You, the lyrics express the uncertainty that the singer feels towards love. It starts off with the idea that love never lasts and the singer believed that it was true in the past. However, as the singer is going with the flow, they cannot help but want to be close to the person they care for. The repetition of "close to you" emphasizes this desire for physical closeness and the inability to resist those feelings.
The singer also mentions how they used to never have doubts about anything, but now that they have fallen in love, they feel uncertain and have doubts. The line "they say that love is never blind, but now I think I lost my mind, I'm going blind" can be interpreted in a couple of ways. The first interpretation being that love is blind and the singer has lost their sense of reasoning. The second interpretation could be the feeling of overwhelming emotions that make them feel like they're going blind. Overall, the lyrics convey a sense of vulnerability that comes with love and the fear of being hurt.
Line by Line Meaning
They say that love will never last, I really
Thought so in the past, it didn't last
People say that love doesn't last long. I also believed in it in the past, but it never lasted.
I always was the last to know, but now
I'm going with the flow, I have to know
I used to be the last one to know about things, but now I'm taking things as they come and want to know the truth.
close to you, close to you, I don't want
To think it through
Being close to you is what I want, I don't want to overthink it.
Close to you, close to you, all my
Dreams are coming true
Being close to you is making all my dreams come true.
Close to you, close to you, all my
Dreams are coming true, they're
Coming true
Being close to you is really making all my dreams come true.
I never used to have a doubt, nothing
Was waiting to come out, but now I
Doubt
I never had any doubts, but now I do.
They say that love is never blind, but
Now I think I lost my mind, I'm going
Blind
People say that love is not blind, but now I feel like I'm going crazy and losing my mind over it, I'm going blind.
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Written by: Burt Bacharach, Hal David
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Mladen Bradač
Close to You
they say that love will never last, i really
thought so in the past, it didn't last
I always ways the last to know, but now
I'm going with the flow, i have to know
close to you, close to you, I don't want
to think it thru
close to you, close to you, all my
dreams are coming true
close to you, close to you, all my
dreams are coming true, they're
coming true
I never used to have a doubt, nothing
was waiting to come out, but now I
doubt
they say that love is never blind, but
now i think I lost my mind, I'm going
blind
Santiago Florez
Excelente álbum!!
CHUBE MAN X
uuuunnn rolonnnnnn y este album tiene unas rolotas ---los brothers johansson se la rifan goran edman y michael romeoooo le dan sabor al caldooooo
Eddie VanHalen Rhoads
Que poder la bateria al comienzo, grande anders johansson.
Filenzelot
pocos han escuxado este disco es realmente weno :D
Camilo Tarkowski
temazo!! K solo de teclado wn... La raja el Tema
Carlitos Mollinedo
Uhh , realmente buenoo
alejandrocooper1
excelenteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
LuvIzAhl
GREAT keyboards
claudio andres gonzalez vargas
GORAN EDMAN RULES!!!
Jessica Bedolla
Close to you <3