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Hoola Bandoola Band
12+ albums
proggswedishpoliticalrocksvenskt
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Hoola Bandoola Band is a Swedish progg group. One of the most prominent groups during the heyday of the Swedish progressive music movement, Hoola Bandoola Band was founded by Peter Clemmedson, Mikael Wiehe and Björn Afzelius, the latter two of whom served as primary lead singers, the sole songwriters, and guitarists for the group; their lyrics dealt chiefly with left-wing political commentary. Since their original disbandment in 1976, Hoola Bandoola Band has reformed for sporadic tours in the 1990s and 2000s, albeit without Afzelius, who passed away from lung cancer in 1999. Hoola Bandoola Band was founded in Malmö, Sweden in 1970 by Afzelius, Clemmedson, and Wiehe. The other members of the group were Povel Randén, Arne Franck, Per Ove Kellgren, and Håkan Skytte. The group's name, chosen by Wiehe, was derived from a fictional nonsensical language spoken by ants in the Donald Duck cartoon "Tea for Two Hundred." In 1971, the group had their first radio hit, and were subsequently approached by two record labels interesting in signing them; Hoola Bandoola Band made the conscientious choice of joining the more alternative label, MNW, and thus did they become the most well-known "alternative" group in Sweden. Later that year, they released their debut album, Garanterat individuell, which was hailed as the harbinger of a new era of Swedish music and was elected "Album of the Year" by a majority of the press. The album's lyrical content was not as overtly political as their subseq
