Yngwie J. Malmsteen

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Unleash The Fury		(2005)
The Genesis		(2002)
War To End All Wars		(2000)
Alchemy		(1999)
Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar And Orchestra		(1998)
Double LIVE!		(1998)
Facing The Animal		(1997)
Inspiration		(1996)
The Seventh Sign		(1994)
Fire And Ice		(1992)
The Yngwie Malmsteen Collection		(1991)
Eclipse		(1990)
Trial By Fire		(1989)
Odyssey		(1988)
Trilogy		(1987)
Marching Out		(1985)
Rising Force		(1984)

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Yngwie Malmsteen was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 30, 1963. The youngest child in a household that included his mother Rigmor, sister Ann Louise, and brother Bjorn, Yngwie originally had no interest in music. However, on September 18, 1970, Yngwie saw a TV special on the death of guitar iconoclast Jimi Hendrix. Seven-year-old Yngwie watched with awe as Hendrix blasted the audience with torrents of feedback and sacrificed his guitar in flames. The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born.

Applying his intense curiosity and tenacity to first an old Mosrite and then a cheap Stratocaster, Yngwie immersed himself in the music of such bands as Deep Purple and

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