Dingo, the biggest thing in music in the 1980's - or ever - gets a tribute album next week. Lordi, Hanna Pakarinen, Jenni Vartiainen and Nylon Beat's Jonna Kosonen are amongst the artists who cover Dingo songs. Listen Lordi's version of Autiotalo (The house) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNHvevkQSTI and the original smash hit here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEl_AG16IrI .Dingo's period was rather short (1984-1986) but very intense. It were compared to Beatlemania in the 60's by the hysteria they created and will be always remembered also as the band who forced YLE's very conservative TV-news to change: When Dingo slipt up in Ocotber 1986 it was featured as their main news - something very unusual for the channel! The band was formed in 1982 and got their first TV appearance in popular Levyraati programme in January 1984 with Sinä ja minä. Debut album followed in April and stayed in Top-40 for over a year. Autiotalo was released as a single later that year and still remains the most sold Finnish single ever. Second album was released in March 1985 and sold over 125.000 copies in a week! Today the sales are over 200.000 and it remains the 4th most sold album ever. The rest of the 1985 was lived in hysteria. Even bus tours were arranged to go and see Dingo member's houses in true Hollywood style. They recorded Autiotalo in English and the single The house without a name/Tell me (now covered by Hanna Pakarinen) single become a minor hit in Sweden and Denmark. In 1986 the third album was released and the media screamed fiasco as it sold "only" 80.000 copies, a number today's big stars still dream of. The stress got too much and the band split up after breaking every possible audience and selling record at the time. All their albums remain amongst top selling albums in Finland ever. However the band changed the music scene, generated a generations of girls (and not only) wearing neoncolor scarfs and sporting big hairs and a lot of collective memories for the whole nation.
In 1993 the band made a short come back with a compilation album and Pave Maijanen was in it in keyboards. Another compilation album was released before Christmas including one new song, Perjantai, that become a new Dingo hit. In 1994 they released an album with new material but slipt up again ahortly after.
In 1998 they were on the road again and their yet another compilation album sold platinum. Since then the members have been arguing about the use of the name Dingo, being performing in various compinations on and off, releasing new material and hanging around....
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