Genre: Pop
Country: Norway
Year of publication: 2010-2011
Audio codec: MP3
Rip type: tracks
Audio Bitrate: 320 kbps
Duration: 02:23:12

Albums:
1972 - Tiden Går (00:37:30)
1974 - Nye Dager (00:36:12)
1975 - Taste Of Hits (00:33:42)
1976 - Firebeats & Ingjerd Helen (00:35:48)

Personnel:
Yngve Bjerke - vocal, guitar (1962-now)
Valter Bjerke - bass, vocal (1962-now)
Biorn Borg - guitar (1962-now)
Oystein Brathen - guitar (1962-1966)
Aage Mjos - drums (1964-1965)
Tom Fred Paulsen - drums (1971-1975)
Knut Lanseng - drums (1975-now)
Svein Erik Andersen - drums (1992-2007)
Ingjerd Helen - vocal (1971-1980)
Erik Schellhorn - bas (1977-1980)
Enok Strand - keyboards, bass (1992-now)

A band from Oslo formed in 1962 by brothers Yngve and Walter Bjerke and was originally called Firebeats Inc. Later, guitarist Björn Borg and drummer Tom Fred Paulsen joined the band, later replaced by Knut Lanseng. Their style in that early period is classic garage English beat rock. The group signed a contract with EMI, and after 4 singles in 1966 released one successful album, but in the early 70s they decided not only to shorten their name and sing in Norwegian, with an emphasis on the domestic market, but also changed their style in direction of commercial melodic light music, became a pop group, taking on as a vocalist the young singer Ingjerd Helen Dahl, who by that time had already established herself well as a solo artist, releasing a rather successful record Livets Lotteri (Life Lottery) in 1970. The first albums of the renewed group partly consisted of well-known foreign hits with Norwegian lyrics, which were interspersed with their own compositions, written mainly by Yngve Bjerke. Success accompanied the group not only in Norway, but also in Denmark. In 1972, they broke through the Danish and Swedish charts with the song "Klap i takt" (Clap to the beat), which led to big sales even of their previous albums in the wake of this success. In 1973 they participated in the international song festival in the Polish city of Sopot, but without much success. Stylistically, they almost approached the English Brotherhood of Man and the Dutch Teach In, but with a local Norwegian flavor, although to tell the truth, their music not only did not develop, but became more and more simplified, so after releasing two more records, the group gradually began to surrender their positions. Their last very good LP "Firebeats Again", where Walter Bjerke gave the bass guitar to Erik Schelhorn, was recorded in 1978 specifically for the Danish market with Per Rasmussen as a producer, but he could no longer improve the situation.
By that time, the musical tastes of the public had changed dramatically, erotic disco dominated the dance floors, performers with synthesizer sound appeared, punk rock raised its head, and the public wanted something new, fresh, and Fitebeats, unfortunately, did not accept these innovations, did not want to to change and stubbornly continued to perform the music of the early seventies, which is why in 1980 the fans finally turned away from them and the group had to cease to exist. Although listening to their CDs now, it's a little disappointing that they were so undeservedly forgotten even in Norway, even if they did not reach the giants of pop music of that time.
Ingjerd Helen has also ended her singing career, changed her last name from Dahl to Borg (married to Björn Borg) and currently works with the disabled at a music training center in Oslo.
The Fitebeats group does not have an official website, but it has its own  page in the Norwegian sector, where you can see archived and new photos and listen to some of their compositions.
It is noteworthy that in 2013 the group rises from the ashes with the original name Firebeats Inc., having recorded the disc "Firebeats Inc. 2" on the Hell's Bells Records label, almost in the classic line-up of the late sixties, proving to everyone that they are still alive and good music cannot to die and must periodically remind of itself.

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