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In the head on per Gessle

Per Gessle has not left out a lot of of itself and your life on earlier records. But he does the on son Of A Plumber. The record leads straightly in to his old pojkrum in Halmstad. Exclusive interview for Gradvall.se.
Text: Jan Gradvall

Per Gessles lateest albums are given during the name son Of A Plumber. The has been considered as a funny or stupid alias, but is in actually a correct description of his own background. Per Gessles father each rörmokare.

Per Gessle, born 1959, has not left out a lot of of itself and your life on your records with Gyllene times or Roxette or on your sunbathing records during own names. But he does the on son Of A Plumber-skivan. The record leads straightly in to his old pojkrum in Halmstad.

Opens the man record sleeve finds one a picture on his father, Kurt, and his mum Elisabeth. Kurt Gessle ran a VVS-firma and worked oavbrutet. Probably, he did not know a lot of about your son’s thoughts and ideas.

On the record sleeve to son Of A Plumber-albumet exists two drawings done in pencil and water colour. An imagines a situation from a hand ball game, that other a hockey game. The drawings are done of per Gessle when he each around seven years.

I recognize the twisted perspective in the drawings: all players are to turn ahead. I recognize the experiments to exact naturtrogenhet in the depiction of the objective frameworks and in the colour lay of the suits. The was exactly so I painted in same age.

Was found you these old drawings?

- I found them home at my mum. I willed look in an old photo album and when I opened the tumbled the out a ream with old drawings. I signed very a lot when I each small. Here, for example, is the Brynäs that does objectives against remained silent.

What each remained silent for teams?

- Kjell Rune Milton played there. He went afterwards over to Modo but began in remained silent.

Collected you hockey pictures also?

- self-evident. I did lists over everything. I typed up to and including up which as done objectives in the television puck. Brynäs each my favourite team. I remember when the the lost Swedish championship gold in some game against Leksand. I were entirely destroyed, I could not to go to the school. I has always been a poor loser.

Building your mum left in the old house?

- no, we have moved a lot of. The first time we moved each 68 or 69. My father had asthma. Doctors sa that he willed move inwards the country a piece in order to the willed become better for his air concerns. The each an awkward council, realizes I now. I have consulted from other directions that the willed last gooder with marine air if one has asthma.

I have asthma. The lets hugely awkwardly.

- or how? We lived around Folkparken in Halmstad, but moved two 10 km farther inwards the country. There, we lived in perhaps five years, between I where approximately nine and thirteen. Since moved we again, to Vilshärad, where we built a house. In same veva became my father having a propensity to. He might prostatacancer. He could not work and low home in a year.

- against the end of that time had we not councils to have left that house without moved again. The each there in that house that I typed” when all friends have gone home”. The each on Hamiltonsväg 1978. I remember the clear. My father died 1978.

The exists an underlying vemod in that tune. Typed you the after your father’s dead?

- (intends after) yes, the must have been after. My father consulted us only once. The each when we in Grape coat might last with in the radio programme” the band goes”. We willed imagine a punk band, but the tune,” an of those”, is six minutes long. The built on an evighetsriff that enough had more common with evil Zeppelin. But my father liked the not at all. Above all, he thought that I sang hugely poorly.

How saw your pojkrum out?

- we moved of course so a lot of that no became constant. We were three brothers and sister but the each seven years between us. When I were given birth to sow where my sister (Gunilla) 14 years. She disappeared therefore from the home quite early. The each most I and my brother (Bengt). But I remember that my sister had its room above the stair and that she always played” Lipstick On Your Collar”. Has you consulted the?

Connie Francis?

- green vinyl.

The is well Connie Francis-eran as Agnetha Fältskog looks back to on your last albums. The virgin the full time before Beatles.

- a fantastic your. Many off the tunes let exactly alikely, but one can not to let to become to like them. Has you this concentration? What is called he now again… He as done” Telstar” with The Tornados? All his productions are fantastic.

You mean Joe Meek?

- yes!

Has not bought the than unfortunately.

- almost all on that concentration is good. Screaming Lord Sutch&The Savages,” in Ain’ t Mad At You”. Makalös. Damn good. The had my brother on single. My brother is born 1951. I began with borrowing records from him before I begun to build up an own record concentration. My first favourites each Hep Stars.

Is not you pursue young for Hep Stars actually?

- I liked the. I became driven of my parents in order to see Hep Stars on scene. The drove exactly same scene chat that on the life record” On Stage”. I asked my mum about this far too recently, but she remembers not some. She is 81.

- I liked Hep Stars so a lot of that I forced my buddies to be pretended that we were a band. We stood there with couronnepinnar as guitars and mimade to” Sunny Girl” and to” It’ s My Life” with Animals. But my buddies each entirely lack of interest row off musical. The thought I each awkward.

What each the dominating in their lives? Football?

- I played also football, but the each not my correct gadget. I were quite technical, I could to stand and kicka with the ball 100 aisles in the air. But I each quite thick on that time and poor on running. The the crucial road choice came when I fulfilled 15. I might choose between a second-hand moppe and a second-hand stereo. I chose stereon.

I have exactly same history. We were located perhaps a pair pinnhål higher up on middle class tea direct: for myself was the a new moppe or a new stereo.

- I has always been an ensamvarg and became so still more when I deselected moppen. The depends perhaps on my figure, but also on that we moved so a lot of. One got never foothold, got no near friends. I sat instead home with my hörlurar. I listened on records, listened a lot of on radio and typed down statistic.

- in same age, when I where 14-15, began I also to type my own tunes. We had a piano home that I never played on. I took some education but could never connecta that with notes. I took never how the notes became musical. So when I typed tunes so where the only nedskrivna texts. The melodies had I in the head. I had about a hundred’s tunes in my head.

Completed tunes that you intended forward?

- yes.

You consulted them in the head with arrangements and all?

- yes. Not on Mozart-vis (laughter), the was no symphonies where I could to consult each individual instrument. But I had poplåtar entirely clear in the head with rate, vers, stings, chorus.

- the each there in, in my head, that I my lived life. We moved and moved. Högstadiet was a nasty bothersome time for me. I knew myself entirely wrong. I each småmobbad and knew me value loose, plus that I where quite thick. In order to come from the school decided I me therefore in order to take a sabbatsår and began to work on bingo lives’.

Sabbatsår on bingo lives’?

- yes, the each an ICA-affär. I am born in January 1959. When I did school maturity physical at six years’ age might I choose about I instead wanted to begin the school a year earlier. We chose that alternative and I the begun school already as sex small river ring. I each therefore always youngest in the class during the growth. To take a sabbatsår each a way to end up in a new class, with jämnåriga. Mum and all each unanimous about that a sabbatsår each a good idea.

- I worked on bingo lives’ and picked up milk and such things. There, I might drive moppe despite all, flakmoppe, and retrieved products. When I stood there and packed milk a day came an of my teachers on the disgusting school past and said: ” I see, the each here you willed end up to ends”. Phew damn, which pig. But for me each alltsammans an opportunity to begin about. During sabbatsåret saw I also to bereduced in weight.

How, you did? On that time existed well neither gym or viktklubbar.

- I lived on chicken and toffee breads in a year. All had come to a boundary. I each though resolved to begin about. New houses, new school, new friends. I each up after a year zero.

- analog with this happens the punk. I bought Patti Smiths” Horses” and Ramones first. I got a kind abstract self-confidence of the. The punk said that the each OK to not to be in particular good. In that spirit of the time as been before, embossed of” Brain Salad Surgery” and” Dark Side Of The Moon”, each all so damn proficient.

- when I came back to the school, where I at last ended up in a new class, might I a friend. A really good friend that is called Peter, Peter Nilsson. The was 1977 and he played basis in tied as been called Audiovisuellt attacks. The band repeated in Harplinge, an and a half 10 km away. We went there as soon as we could and tillbringade the whole days there.

- among the other members in Audiovisuellt attacks existed MP (Mats’s Persson, Gyllene times) as played barrels. The was so I learnt to know him. In the band, Martin existed also Sternhufvud as later started Mamas children with Marie (Fredriksson). After a while, I started and MP an own band the wide side about, but the first time thickset I where on the floor in the scratch premise, with the spine against the wall, and listened when the played.

- the room there the repade each small, tinier than this room. The each so damn high. I sat there and intended, wow, this is precise the I wants to do with my life.

The room we sit in today is big. We sit in per Gessles everyday existence rooms in Stockholm and drinks coffee. Or, if anything said, I sitter down and drinks coffee. Per Gessle alone runs most all the time in to the room next to, a musical room, and plays up various tunes.

- comes you not to mind Lobo? ” in’ d Love You To Want Me”? Wait, then must I play the.

Per Gessle has your vinylsamling left in your house in Halmstad. In the apartment in Stockholm has he all CD-SKIVOR. Permanent all he likes is now nedtankat in an iPod that he linked to a kind bergsprängare. He bends down down, lets the finger to spin over the governing plaque, prints forward a new tune.

-” Me wild duck You wild duck A died Named Boo”. Also Lobo.

Per Gessle has done a lot of iPods. ” the first each the entire black U2-iPoden, but the became of course full direct.” During 2004 began he tanka down the whole your CD-samling in iTunes.

Not seldom, he became so swallowed up that he when he looked on o’clock where the five in the morning.

- I sheep all the time consult that I am to sow pedantisk. That my records stand in letter order and such things. Certain, the does the. But in the middle of this so has I also an entire other side. I do not cope with off when my time to be expected to last in order. The worst I know is to have schedules. I do not like deadline’s. I do not like when I in advance knows what as will happen.

- I do not take people that can to type tunes on office pc IDS. To sit where six hours, sometimes becomes the some, sometimes not. I refuse to work so. I sit instead before televisionaerial: n with the guitar in the knee. Is the a half good film lowers I the sound and sitter and tinkles on the piano. I read the text strips on the film, does not intend on what I does, and then can the sudden turn up a melody. Damn, what each that?

When per Gessle tankade down your record concentration in iTunes återupptäckte he a lot of old music. Such that he listened on in hörlurar in your old pojkrum.

- in the old day could one in the radio consult Chicory Tip followed of Harry Belafonte and late came Deep Purple. The is so damn boring with that format small splash that now advices. Which people likes an only thing? Who wants to eat same dish all the time?

One got a kind popular cultural general education through the the old monopoly radio. One might learn who Jules Sylvain each.

- yes, the does not know ethnic longer. Concurrent believes I that the Internet and digital music can the turned development. On the net, one can, approximately that via the radio in the old day, at random find new tunes and newly musical.

- the is sin that iTunes Music big still has so little old music. I do not take why companies as European Monetary Institute or Warner opens own equivalences to iTunes Music big. The should put up exactly all. Intends about all got possibility to click around where, to review the whole that folder, to detect all music that exists hidden in the archives.

Per Gessle takes with itself your iPod, i e your record concentration, when he travels. He goes to Halmstad several aisles monthly.

Approximately concurrent that he was in Halmstad and looked in his mum’s old photo albums - then his own old child drawings tumbled out - begun he to intend on the music as his shaped growth.

- I have a åttaårig son. The is huge kul to see which music he finds and why he likes the. On Cartoon Network dives the evidently up a lot of musics. He can come and question me about for example Rembrandts.

- for a while since played I” Smoke On The Water” for him. He had never consulted the until. Liveversionen from Japanese. Duh-duh-duh… The each fantastic to attest some to consult the riffet for very the first time in your life. I saw how his eyes was lit.

- for what is the actually that does that one gets catch for different tunes? What was the as I liked in different tunes as eight small river ring. That acoustic short-circuit in” in Feel delicate”. What is the as is so sudden with the?

Per Gessle decided itself in order to try to catch the upptäckarglädjen, the entirely the open and narrow-minded attitude to musical, on a record. A record that ljudmässigt was embossed of the music he consulted on the radio at the start of 1970-talet. Gessle took again contact with Clarence Öfwerman and Christoffer Lundquist that he worked with earlier.

- I have worked with Clarence since 1986. We can each other very well. An of those things Clarence thought been negative is that I am far too for prepared before record productions. I do hugely sophisticated demos. Demos that sometimes lets exactly as the outcome.

- now decided we us therefore for the ultimate change in my world. I did no demos at all to son Of A Plumber-skivan. The only I had before the productions begun was three instrument alder tunes. The rest is such that comes forward during the work. I played up ideas for Clarence and Christoffer that now might a lot of bigger opportunity to influence them.

- I wanted to also to avoid spear points on the record. Our idea each to do a record where the whole where the important, a double plaque with a pair three tunes too much. Musics do not need to be effective.

The result has become a record that recreates that dream world that per Gessle lived in your hörlurar. A travel with speaking tune titles that” in Never Quite Got Over The Fact That The Beatles Broke Up” via” Keep The radio On (This ice The Perfect Song)” to” Kurt - The Fastest Plumber in The West”.

A song baptized after a rörmokare in west Sweden. A rörmokare that got a son that against all odds succeeded to begin about from zero. As in your other lives became the he only could to dream about in its first.

(the article exclusive for Gradvall.se. Published December 21.)