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Akun tehdas is the third studio album by Finnish rock band Eppu Normaali. It was released on 19 February 1980. On the album, the band switched from their punk rock style, seen in previous albums, to new wave. Mikko Saarela was not Eppu Normaali's bassist on the album, but he still wrote lyrics for it. Akun tehdas was the first album to include Mikko "Vaari" Nevalainen on bass. The name Aku in Akun tehdas refers to the band's drummer Aku Syrjä, and the title was inspired by the 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival album Cosmo's Factory, which in turn was named after CCR's drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford and the warehouse where CCR used to play, "The Factory". The album's cover is also similar to the cover of Cosmo's Factory. The band's 1983 album Aku ja köyhät pojat was also named after a CCR album, Willy and the Poor Boys. Akun tehdas has sold over 56,909 copies, and it went gold in 1980 and platinum in 1997. "Akun tehdas" is also the name of Eppu Normaali Oy's versatile audiovisual facility located in Ylöjärvi, and Oy Aku's Factory Ltd is a company founded by Aku Syrjä in 2008. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akun_te...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
