Anders Sture Torbjörn "Pugh" Rogefeldt (, ; 2 March 1947 – 1 May 2023) was a Swedish singer, musician, guitarist and songwriter.
Musical career
Rogefeldt made his breakthrough in the late 1960s with albums such as ''
Ja, dä ä dä'' and ''
Pughish''. Unlike most other Swedish pop musicians who wanted to achieve international success, he sang in
Swedish
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. One song which is commonly associated with Rogefeldt is "Små lätta moln". Other major hits include "Här kommer natten", "Föräldralåten", "Hog Farm", "Dinga Linga Lena" and "Stockholm". In the 1970s, he toured with this band
Rainrock, together with
Ola Magnell
Nils Olaus Lennart Karl Magnell (20 January 1946 – 6 February 2020) was a Swedish pop-rock singer and guitarist. His works were first put out by Metronome Records in the 1970s.
References
External links
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1946 births
2020 deaths
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Janne Lucas Persson
Jan Lars Persson (born 3 October 1947), known by his stage name Janne Lucas, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of pop band Lucas.
Early life
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. A live double LP was released from this tour, entitled ''
Ett steg till''.
Rogefeldt was passionate about
Old Norse religion
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into distinct branches. It was replaced by Christianity and forgotten ...
and developed a personal outlook where the god
Thor
Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...
was particularly important to him. He said rock music and Old Norse religion share central attributes and sought to fuse them together on the album ' (1985).
In the early 1990s, he was also a member of
Grymlings, alongside
Göran Lagerberg
Göran Bertil Lagerberg (; born 20 September 1947) is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist in Swedish rock band Tages and later progressive rock act Kebnekajse. In the 1990s, he was a ...
,
Mikael Rickfors
Mikael Rickfors (born 4 December 1948) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. From 1968, he was the lead singer and bass guitarist in Swedish band Bamboo. The band released two singles before breaking up in 1970. Rickfors later performed with the ...
and
Magnus Lindberg.
The intro from Rogefeldt's "Love, Love, Love" track (from the 1969 album ''Ja, Dä Ä Dä!'') is notable for being sampled and used by
DJ Shadow
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He uses l ...
on "Mutual Slump" (from the 1996 album ''
Endtroducing.....'').
Death
Rogefeldt died on 1 May 2023, at the age of 76 from
corticobasal degeneration
Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease involving the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia. CBD symptoms typically begin in people from 50 to 70 years of age, and typical survival before death is eight years. It is cha ...
.
Pugh Rogefeldt är död – blev 76 år
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Discography
Albums
*1969 – ''Ja, dä ä dä''
*1970 – ''Pughish''
*1972 – ''Hollywood''
*1973 – ''Pugh on the Rocks''
*1974 – ''Bolla och Rulla''
*1975 – ''Ett steg till''
*1977 – ''Bamalama''
*1978 – ''Attityder''
*1981 – ''Het''
*1983 – ''Face''
*1985 – ''Hammarhjärta''
*1986 – ''Pugh Rogefeldt''
*1991 – ''Människors Hantverk''
*1999 – ''Pugh Maraton''
*2008 – ''Vinn hjärta vinn''
Collections
*2003 – ''Pugh Boxen''
*2003 – ''Pughs Bästa''
*2012 – ''Dä Va' Då Dä' Pugh Rogefeldts Bästa 1969–2012''
with Grymlings
*1990 – ''Grymlings''
*1992 – ''Grymlings II''
Notes
References
External links
Pugh Rogefeldt's website
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1947 births
2023 deaths
Swedish-language singers
Swedish male singers
Swedish composers
Swedish male composers
People from Västerås
Swedish modern pagans
Performers of modern pagan music
Adherents of Germanic neopaganism
Deaths from neurodegenerative disease