2009-06-16

Björn Afzelius

40 years ago there were a lot of groups who played progressive music, 'progg' in Swedish.
One of those bands was Hoola Bandoola Band. The name comes from an old Donald Duck film.
Donald is on picnic and has food on a blanket, the ants see it and calls the others. 'Hoolabandoola, hoolabandola!'. Donald loses the fight of course.
The leading members in the band was Björn Afzelius and Mikael Wiehe. Mikael plays in the neighbourhood this summer with Stefan Nilsson. Björn smoked very much so he died of cancer.
Their songs are very pleasant to listen to, I was on a Björn Afzelius concert here, I liked it very much, and our daughters have the same name too, just the spelling differs.

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