Sleepy Sleepers

Sleepy Sleepers (commonly known as Sliipparit in Finland) is a Finnish pop-rock-punk-comedy band founded in 1974 by its two front-men Sakke Järvenpää and Mato Valtonen in Lahti, Finland. Between 1975 and their break-up in 1990 they recorded and issued a total of 19 albums. Sakke and Mato eventually went on to form and front the internationally successful Leningrad Cowboys. List of best-selling music artists in Finland Sleepy Sleepers @ pHinnWeb Nestingen, Andrew (2013). "The Auteur". The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki: Contrarian Stories. Columbia University Press. p. 52. doi:10.7312/nest16558.5. Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Kärki, Kimi (26 October 2020). Made in Finland: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-20439-1. Ribeiro, Ana Bento (2019). "Aki Kaurismäki's Finno-French Connections and Other Transcultural Elsewheres". Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 182–89. doi:10.3366/j.ctvrxk130.20. ISBN 978-1-4744-3805-6. Lindén, Carl-Gustav (2021). "Nokialand Is Born". Kingdom of Nokia: How a Nation Served the Needs of One Company. Helsinki University Press. pp. 111–20. v t e