"I wanna be touring the outskirts of the planet!": Guitarist Kee Marcello discusses Europe's Le Baron Boys era and his UK tour

The former Europe guitarist gets candid as he explains why he's 'Scaling Up' instead of slowing down unlike many of his peers as he gets ready to tour the UK.
UPDATED SEP 4, 2018

At 58 years of age, Swedish guitar virtuoso Kee Marcello, who made a name as leader of the 80s glam rock band Easy Action, and more popularly as the guitarist of Swedish rock giants Europe, has no plans of slowing down. The intention is clear in the title of his last studio effort, 2016's 'Scaling Up'.

"For a while, I was reading in mags and online about rock stars my age talking about how they don't wanna tour as much. They don't want to record as frequently," Kee explains in an exclusive interview with Meaww. "Sounds like a retirement plan you know!" he says, appalled at the idea of stowing a talent away. "That's not the place I'm in at all," he says in a spritely, defiant manner.

"I wanna tour more. I wanna go to places I've never been. I wanna be touring the outskirts of the planet! I wanna write new songs, make new albums. But it seems like a lot of my colleagues are scaling down. I'm 'Scaling Up'," he explains the title of his fourth full-length solo studio effort, a follow up to 2013's 'Judas Kiss'.

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