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I don't know how many of you have heard of finnish heavy rock/pop singer Kirka, but i just went through couple of his songs and i found one quite interesting song. It's called In My Dreams and it's from the 1986 release called R.O.C.K.

Listen the song from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbocH4-xUI

I really think that this is quite similar to Strato's Forever. Both have same kind of lyrics and feeling. And the question is: Did TT get his inspiration to Forever from this song?

I think we already discused that in the thread about Polaris in the discusion about When Mountains Fall and Forever.

Ragehead91 wrote:I think we already discused that in the thread about Polaris in the discusion about When Mountains Fall and Forever.

Ok, i tried to find topics about this but i didn't found any, i guess i have to check that topic.

Jude wrote:I don't know how many of you have heard of finnish heavy rock/pop singer Kirka, but i just went through couple of his songs and i found one quite interesting song. It's called In My Dreams and it's from the 1986 release called R.O.C.K.

Listen the song from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbocH4-xUI

I really think that this is quite similar to Strato's Forever. Both have same kind of lyrics and feeling. And the question is: Did TT get his inspiration to Forever from this song?

It was another song he stole it from , this one ,listen around 1;04

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Jude wrote:

Ragehead91 wrote:I think we already discused that in the thread about Polaris in the discusion about When Mountains Fall and Forever.

Ok, i tried to find topics about this but i didn't found any, i guess i have to check that topic.

Sorry, actually we were talking about the song AAAAAAAAAA posted.

This is so embarrassing... Huuuuuuuu

Yep, i knew that Take Me High song earlier, but i think In My Dreams has also same things that Forever has. A Coincidence or not? Anyway both songs are amazing.

I think the take me higher refrain sounds more like Forever than the song you've postet. Although there is a resemblance.

I don't knew this guy, I'll listen his songs,

I saw one of those "who they ripped off" -videos a while ago, that compared Helloween's If I Knew to the exactly same Kirka-song.

Mormegil wrote:I saw one of those "who they ripped off" -videos a while ago, that compared Helloween's If I Knew to the exactly same Kirka-song.

EVERY POWER METAL BAND RIPPED OFF KIRKA!

ROFL!
I just realized that she is Mariska Veres! She is definitely Hungarian originally. Let's google it up!

Ok found her!
Wikipedia Info

Veres was born in The Hague. Her father was the Romani (Gypsy) Hungarian violinist Lajos Veres; her mother was born in Germany of French and Russian parents. Her elder sister Ilonka accompanied her father on the piano.[1] Her youngest sister, Irene, never had a career in music.

I just have to mention this even though at least some finns might know this already, but just a few months before Kirka passed away he mentioned in some interview that he'd like to do a heavy metal album some day. And there was some talk about Tolkki composing the songs :p It would have been interesting to hear...

Anyway, Kirka's Hengaillaan still kicks some major arse!

the melodies seem easy to write without knowing of the other material.