Showing posts with label Who's who?. Show all posts
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Ola Lager
Ola Lager’s main interest during his school years was drawing and writing essays. With that combination of narrative zest and a will to express himself through pictures, it was a natural choice to take up photography. For Ola it began as a hobby but became a profession when he was hired at an advertising studio in the late 1950s, receiving a valuable education.
Up until the end of the 1960s, Ola worked as a photographer at various advertising agencies. In 1969 he started his own company and before long he began getting assignments as a record sleeve photographer. “The record companies no longer wanted to use any old photo, now they wanted staged pictures,” Ola remembers. His main employer was the record company Polar Music, where one of the groups was ABBA. During the period 1974–1979, Ola photographed a great number of album and single sleeves for ABBA – albums such as Waterloo, ABBA, Arrival, Voulez-Vous and Greatest Hits Vol. 2 sold by the millions. He also took pictures for major Swedish artists such as Lena Andersson, Svenne & Lotta, Ted Gärdestad, Björn Skifs and Eva Dahlgren.
However, Ola Lager has mainly been working for clients outside the music business, and today he is still active as a photographer
Up until the end of the 1960s, Ola worked as a photographer at various advertising agencies. In 1969 he started his own company and before long he began getting assignments as a record sleeve photographer. “The record companies no longer wanted to use any old photo, now they wanted staged pictures,” Ola remembers. His main employer was the record company Polar Music, where one of the groups was ABBA. During the period 1974–1979, Ola photographed a great number of album and single sleeves for ABBA – albums such as Waterloo, ABBA, Arrival, Voulez-Vous and Greatest Hits Vol. 2 sold by the millions. He also took pictures for major Swedish artists such as Lena Andersson, Svenne & Lotta, Ted Gärdestad, Björn Skifs and Eva Dahlgren.
However, Ola Lager has mainly been working for clients outside the music business, and today he is still active as a photographer
Anders Hanser - Who's Who
Anders Hanser’s interest in photography was awakened when he was a young boy. He was still only a teenager when his pictures were published in some of the major Swedish dailies and weeklies. As an adult, Anders worked as a teacher for a couple of years, but in 1970 he changed careers and became a producer and project leader at Sveriges Radio (Sweden’s only broadcasting company at the time). For the remainder of the decade, he produced educational and music related programs for radio and TV. In 1978 he founded his own company and established himself with slide shows and other audiovisual productions that attracted a great deal of attention.
Through the years, Anders Hanser has had a strong interest in music and in the mid-Sixties was even a member of the group Jack Downing & The Other Side. He has photographed many artists over the years, but is primarily known for his large collection of ABBA pictures: starting in 1978 and for the next two decades, he photographed them both as a group and as individuals. As a personal friend of the group, Anders Hanser had access to Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida in situations where photographers normally were banned – not least during their highly demanding work in the recording studio. “You had to be sensitive. I would take pictures when they were listening or rehearsing, but whenever there was a real take, I kept a low profile.” More than 500 of Anders Hanser’s pictures are collected in Premium Publishing’s book From ABBA To Mamma Mia!, a collaboration with ABBA historian Carl Magnus Palm. The book was published in Sweden, the UK, the US and Japan.
To this day, Anders runs his company Anders Hanser Produktion, which produces films and digital slide shows within the areas of industry and culture.
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16/08/2012
16/07/2012
Jon Lord, co-founder of Deep Purple, dies aged 71
Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with rock band Deep Purple, has died aged 71.
Lord, who co-wrote many of the group's legendary songs including Smoke On The Water, had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since last August.
He co-founded Deep Purple in 1968 and also played with bands including Whitesnake during his career.
He died at the London Clinic on Monday, surrounded by family. "Jon passes from Darkness to Light," a statement said.
Lord was influenced by classical, blues and jazz but approached his Hammond organ with a rock attitude and helped Deep Purple become pioneers of progressive and heavy rock.
Tributes have been paid on Twitter by musicians including one-time Deep Purple bandmate Joe Satriani, Iron Maiden and Anthrax.
Ex-Rage Against the Machine star Tom Morello wrote: "RIP the great Jon Lord, Deep Purple's cornerstone/keyboardist. So many great great songs and that incredible SOUND of his! Thankyou."
Guitarist Joe Bonamassa wrote that he was "extremely saddened" by the news, adding: "One of the nicest and most talented people Ive ever met. Rest in Peace."
Born in Leicester, Lord learned classical piano at an early age before being seduced by watching early rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis and jazz organist Jimmy Smith.
He could have chosen a career as an actor after receiving a drama school scholarship, but started playing in pub bands including short-lived outfits with future Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood and his brother Art.
He also worked as a session musician and is thought to have played piano on The Kinks' hit You Really Got Me.
After meeting guitarist Ritchie Blackmore through another project, the first incarnation of Deep Purple was born.
Lord's classical influence surfaced when Lord composed Concerto for Group and Orchestra, which the band performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.
But the group refined their heavy rock sound and found mass success at the start of the 1970s with albums including Deep Purple in Rock and Machine Head.
In their classic years, the band also included Blackmore, singer Ian Gillan, drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover.
Lord continued to compose classical works alongside the group's output and, when they split in 1976, he joined other groups Whitesnake and Paice, Ashton and Lord.
Deep Purple reformed in 1984 and resumed at the height of their commercial prowess, playing to tens of thousands of fans around the world.
They sold a total of 150 million albums and Lord remained an ever-present amid numerous line-up changes until he left in 2002.
Still composing, he had signed to a classical music label and performed a concert to mark the 30th anniversary of Concerto for Group and Orchestra.
"Thirty years later the piece came back and changed my life again... It gave me the courage to step outside and carve a career for myself outside the band," he told an interviewer.
He broke the news of his cancer diagnosis on his website last year, telling fans he would continue to write music as part of his therapy.
22/06/2012
Video D'Jour - Ted Gärdestad (& ABBA) - Snurra du min värld (1972)
When did the sun turn yellow?
when did the wagon get wheels?
I only wonder
Do you know when did the sky turned blue
when did the clouds turn gray
I only wonder
My world, my world, you are so big
By thoughts are your destination set
So much greater than we understand
So spin, you my world
When does winter become spring
When does the foot get toes
I only wonder
Do you know when the wind settles
When can I start to believe
I wonder
(Yes I only wonder)
My world, my world, you are so big
By thoughts are your destination set
So much greater than we understand
So spin, you my world
My world, my world, you are so big
By thoughts are your destination set
So much greater than we understand
So spin you my world
When do I become a man
When do we love each other
I only wonder (yes I only wonder)
Do you know when the sky turned blue
When will I understand
I wonder
(Yes I only wonder)
My world, my world, you are so big
By thoughts are your destination set
So much greater than we understand
So spin you my world
My world, my world, you are so big
By thoughts are your destination set
So much greater than we understand
So spin you my world
14/05/2012
Who's Who? - Ola Håkansson
Ola Håkansson (born 24 March 1945) is a Swedish singer, composer and producer.
Ola Håkansson was born in Stockholm. He was the singer of the band Ola and the Janglers and later Secret Service. In 1986 he recorded the duet "The Way You Are" with Agnetha Fältskog.https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355518061174052.81672.100001475833690&type=1
He was part of the songwriting trio Norell Oson Bard. In 1992, with Alexander Bard, Håkansson founded the independent record company Stockholm Records.
He has four sons, Andreas, Viktor, David, Ludvig, and a daughter, Linnéa Håkansson
11/05/2012
27/04/2012
24/04/2012
Hungary fans - Agnetha and Tom
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| Tom Oliver started in amateur theatricals as an adolescent in England before pursuing a career as a jockey. However, he failed to gain an apprenticeship owing to his size. He joined the Merchant Navy at 16 and travelled the world, eventually settling in Sydney in 1956. In Australia he found work as a stockman, spending three years in this job, working his way around the country. He subsequently returned to England before beginning an overland trek across Asia to return to Australia. However, the journey was halted by illness and he was returned England where Oliver contacted Albert Finney who was then planning to produce the film Ned Kelly in Australia in 1963. Finney gave him a letter of introduction to an agency in Sydney and Oliver emigrated in 1963, later becoming an Australian citizen. Oliver became a busy theatre and television actor in Australia. He had many guest starring roles on Australian drama series, appearing frequently in the top-rated Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 andMatlock Police, and in Crawford's adventure series Hunter (1967). Oliver was then cast in serial Bellbird, playing the role of Tom Grey from 1969 to 1971. After this he returned to television guest roles for Crawfords, and other companies.[2] He also played two roles in the Gerry Anderson series UFO – A doctor in the episode entitled "Confetti Check A-OK" as well as a SHADO technician in the episode entitled "The Sound of Silence". Oliver's film roles included ABBA: The Movie. His primary role in the film is as ABBA's gruff bodyguard; however, he additionally appears in the film as a barman and as a chatty moustached taxi driver shown mainly from behind. Through the late 1970s and the 1980s, Oliver appeared in guest and regular roles in many Australian drama series and serials, including Prisoner, Holiday Island and Sons and Daughters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Oliver |
20/04/2012
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