“”His heart is pounding on the boards””
“by Håkan Steen of Magnus lindberg’s career”
“A cold wind is blowing and the tears fall over the city.”
“Magnus Lindberg is dead and one of the Swedish rockhistoriens biggest hearts have stopped beating.”
“It may sound like a cliché, it is there with the heart, but the one who has only heard a single song by Magnus Lindberg know that it is absolutely true.by virtue of the strävröstade the singer’s music should be described with just two words may it be ”from the heart”. Magnus Lindberg was the rare sincere, hudlös and undisguised, never afraid to expose his own weaknesses and flaws. “
“the Songs came not rarely from the dark places but was at the same time, more than any other of warmth, zest for life and an abiding faith in the new chances.”
“The broad audience knows him mostly from the Grymlings, it Gotlandsbaserade answer to the Traveling Wilburys, which he put together with Pugh Rogefeldt, Mikael Rickfors and Göran Lagerberg at the beginning of the 90’s. The debut ”Grymlings” sold over 170 000 copies.”
“But lindberg’s devoted fan base had found him much earlier. The Eskilstuna-born singer and songwriter made his record debut as a 20-year-old in the group of national Team in 1972, together with among others Lasse Lindbom. They wanted to make a twist on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and The Band with Swedish lyrics, but when the band, after the hand drew more and more on the Swedish chart and was featured in the Eurovision song contest knew Lindberg that it was not his thing anymore.”
“On the solodebuten ”Magnus Lindberg” he got a text by Ulf Lundell, sang with Anni-Frid Lyngstad in fine munspelsballaden ”the Islands” and claimed a small corner of the american rock somewhere around Neil Young, the Rolling Stones and Rod stewart’s folkigaste pages.”
“On the third album ”Red lips” from 1981, he found even more right, with the new wave-rock title song, which became something of a theme song, and ”Tears of the city” where the irresistible asfaltsvåt Stockholmsromantik flowed of pure springsteensk berättarlust.”
“the Sequel ”In a hand” came the following year but after that there was longer between the sheets. Magnus Lindberg has told you about the drug problem that took its toll and for long periods kept him away from both scenes and studios.nMen he always came back, and the fans waited for the faithful.”
“1999 ”Lights in the night” belongs to Magnus lindberg’s finest moments. In the song ”I’ve never been to Memphis”, he managed to write one of the most powerful lyrics I’ve heard about the american south, precisely because he had never been there. A text about a dream that might not even wanted to become a reality, built on the popkulturens mytbilder and sung by someone who had other things to think about.”
“Lindberg managed to get drogdemonerna in chess and to break with their old life. The last 15 years, he made records and toured much alone with the acoustic guitar.”
“A Grymlings-reunion of 2005, perhaps surprisingly unnoticed but when Lindberg and artistpolaren Basse Wickman nine years ago, had the odd idea to do the Byrds-pop of Dan Andersson-lyrics – greeted by the producer and the longtime Lindberg-fan Kjell Andersson – they ended up quite right. ”White lies + black ballads, volume 1” was a little gem and the meeting between the Wickmans ringing Rickenbacker, lindberg’s tilltufsade voice and ”Around tiggarn from Luossa” had it got to be more of.”
“all The more gratifying was that Lindberg on their own really delivered all the way to the end. Fjolårsalbumet ”Magnus lindberg’s harvest” felt a bit like the title, as a collection of experiences from a whole life.”
“Not only did he re-sing of the Islands in the Mauro Scoccos ”I miss us”. Initial ”When the seconds go away,” caught, as always, without unnecessary fancy re-writing, the passage of time and existence conditions.”
“”No one saw you when you komu002FIngen care when you go” skaldade where he was. But of course, it was anything but true.”
“For the artist and the man, Magnus Lindberg will be deeply missed, for a very long time to come, by all who had the chance to discover him.”
“luckily, throbs the heart on the discs.”
