Calle Bengtsson (photographer) could hear what Kjell heard, but no one else heard the potential. Kjell played the EP to his close colleagues at the company and also sent a cassette copy to Ulf Lundell. He thought there were vague, yet noticeable, traces of a young John Holm in the singer. When Kjell listened to it, he got stuck with Billy. It contained 5 songs of a band from Halmstad. He received a home-made yellow vinyl EP in January 1979. Kjell writes about how his cooperation started with Gyllene Tider. It’s a very informative reading not only about Kjell Andersson’s life, but tons of artists and the Swedish music industry as well. I will of course highlight only parts where either Roxette or Gyllene Tider or Marie Fredriksson or Per Gessle is written about – for all non-Swedish speaker fans –, but I recommend reading the book in case you are interested in Swedish music history and you want to practice your Swedish. Most of the stories hardcore fans have heard already, but it’s always interesting to hear them from another person’s, another participant’s point of view or hear anecdotes related to happenings we’ve heard about. In his book he writes parallel stories of different artists over the decades.Įven if the main line is not Roxette-related, there are either longer stories from our idols’ lives, mainly the early career of GT, PG, Marie and Roxette, or shorter stories, when Marie’s or Per’s ways crossed other artists’ paths or they joined projects of various artists.
To name a few: Per Gessle, Gyllene Tider, Marie Fredriksson, Roxette, Mauro Scocco, Eva Dahlgren, Wilmer X, Björn Skifs, Ulf Lundell etc.
Over 40 years in the music industry, Kjell worked together with many of Sweden’s greatest artists. Kjell Andersson, former Head of A&R and producer at EMI Sweden published his autobiography, Ingen går hel ur det här – Mitt liv i den svenska musiken on 8th February 2021.
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