Bo Hansson was born on 10th April 1943 in Gothenberg, Sweden, and is a musician. 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...

He spent his early life in a remote village in the pine forsts of northen Sweden, but a change in his parents' fortunes forced a move to Stockholm and they were forced to leave the young Bo behind, in the care of family friends. As a teenager he joined his parents in Stockholm, where he soon became interested in the burgeoning rock 'n' roll scene and taught himself to play the guitar, before joining one of Sweden's earliest rock 'n' roll bands Rock-Olga.

After the rock 'n' roll craze gave way to jazz and blues in the late fifties he joined 'Slim' Notini's Blues Gang as a guitarist. Notini had a reputation of nurturing young talent, in the same way that John Mayall was doing across the Baltic in London, and from there Bo was able to move on and form his own blues group The Merrymen, who supported The Rolling Stones on an early Scandanavian tour.

In 1966, Bo saw American jazz organist 'Brother' Jack Mc Duff perform at Stockholm's Gyllene Girklen Club, and was so captivated by the performance that he decided to leave The Merrymen to expand his musical horizons. Encouraged by fellow Merryman Bill Ohrstrom, he eventually acquired his own Hammond Organ. Ohrstrom became an A & R man and producer at Polydor Sweden, and introduced Bo to other musicians, one of whom was drummer Janne Karlsson. Hansson and Karlsson immediately hit it off and were signed as a duo playing up-tempo Hammond organ based music by Polydor where they released three albums between 1967 and 1969. They becan immensly poular in their home country, even reaching the ear of Jimi Hendrix who took time out from his tour to jam with the duo, along with George Clemons on drums and George Wadenius on guitar, at the Klub Filipis in Stockholm in late 1967. Hendrix went on to record a Hansson song "Tax Free".

He was a member of the duo Hansson & Karlsson which released three albums. They became well-known in Sweden and Europe and even overseas to a point, that Jimi Hendrix performed a four-hour jam session with them, Karlsson became successful as a comedian and TV host and so the duo split. Hansson's first solo work was inspired by his fascination with J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was originally called Sagan Om Ringen and was published in 1970 in Sweden and in 1972 in the UK and US. It went gold e.g. in Britain and Australia. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... The One Ring, as envisaged by Gerald Stiehler The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy saga by the British author J. R. R. Tolkien, his most popular work and a sequel to his popular fantasy novel The Hobbit. ... 1970 (MCMLXX in Roman) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. ...

Discography

• 1972 Lord of the Rings, Charisma
• 1974 The Magician's Hat, Charisma
• 1975 Attic Thoughts, Charisma
• 1977 Music inspired by Watership Down, Charisma (released in Sweden as El-Ahrairah, YTF)

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

External links

• Official Homepage

See also: List of Swedes in music This is a list of Swedish composers, musicians and singers: // Composers Johan Agrell (1701-1765) full name: Johan Joachim Agrell Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960) full name: Hugo Emil Alfvén Claude Loyola Allgén (1920-1990) né Klas-Thure Allgén Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974) full name: Kurt Magnus...