1- Yngwie Johan Malmsteen born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck in 30 June 1963
2- Yngwie Malmsteen took his inspiration from Queen’s Brian May
3- Yngwie Malmsteen was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
4- Yngwie Malmsteen released 20 studio albums in a career spanning almost 40 years
5- At the age of what he took his mother’s maiden name Malmsteen as his surname, and Anglicised his given name Yngve to “Yngwie”?
6- Malmsteen released his first solo album “Rising Force” in 1984
7- Yngwie Malmsteen does know how to play various instruments. These are some of them: Bass guitar, Cello, Guitar, Keyboard instrument, Singing, Sitar and Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster.
8- Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the first guitarist to popularize neoclassical music, and a lot people consider him to be one of the, if not the, best electric guitarists.
9- “Classical was the peak of the musical history of man. Music hasn’t developed since classical music; it stopped being creative.” Malmsteen
10- Yngwie Malmsteen height is 6ft 1 or 185.4 cm tall
11- At the age of ten Malmsteen created his first band, Track on Earth, consisting of himself and a friend from school playing the drums
12- Malmsteen has stated that Jimi Hendrix had no musical impact on him and did not contribute to his style, but watching the 18 September 1970 TV special, where Hendrix smashed and burned his guitar, made Malmsteen think “this is really cool
13- Yngwie Malmsteen Genrees: Power metal, Heavy metal, Shred metal, Speed metal, Glam metal, Neo-classical metal, Hard Rock, Neoclassical Metal, Hard Rock, Instrumental Rock
14- Time magazine rated Malmsteen as among the 10 greatest electric guitar players of all time
15- Yngwie Malmsteen is also know as Lars Y. Loudamp and Yngwie J. Malmsteen.
16- In the 1990s, Malmsteen continued to record and release albums under the Japanese record label Pony Canyon, and maintained a devoted following from some fans in Europe and Japan, and to a lesser extent in the USA
17- As a teenager he was heavily influenced by classical music, particularly 19th century Italian virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, a German multi-instrumentalist and composer of the 18th century
18- Yngwie Malmsteen is known for a variety of different music styles. Genres Yngwie Malmsteen is best known for are: Glam metal, Hard rock, Instrumental rock, Neo-classical metal, Power metal, Speed metal and Traditional heavy metal.
19- The media once said, “The day that Jimi Hendrix died, is the same day that the guitar player of Malmsteen was born”. Yngwie was only seven when he saw that documentary.
20- Time magazine named Malmsteen No. 9 on its list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all-time
21- In 2007, Malmsteen was honored in the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero II. Players can receive the “Yngwie Malmsteen” award by hitting 1000 or more notes in succession
22- Deep Purple is one of Yngwie’s favorite bands, because they incorporate classical music into their own music
23- A Ferrari enthusiast, Malmsteen owned a black 1983 308 GTS for 24 years before selling it on eBay , and a red 1962 250 GTO.
24- Yep, he has done this with the Japan Philharmonic. Yngwie says when a painter paints a masterpiece he paints all of it himself. so why wouldn’t a composer do the same for his masterpiece.
25- In 2008, Malmsteen was a special guest on the VH1 Classic show “That Metal Show”