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The blues didn’t arrive from the US as something alien. It arrived as something curiously familiar. See how bands across Scandinavia have made the sound their own.

While synths and new wave brought in the decade and glam metal closed it, there were still plenty of acts championing a blues rock sound and thriving in the 1980s. In looking back at the roots of rock ...