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Stockholm-born Gösta Linderholm had a high-profile job at a record company when he dropped out of school to pursue music. After a time as a clarinet player in the dixie band Jazz Doctors, he formed the troubadour duo Två Blåå together with Gunnar Ekman. He had the breakthrough for a few specific years in the Swedish jazz band with the song “Britta’s restaurant”.
Breaking up again and investing in a solo career turned out to be a stroke of luck. The 1973 debut album “In kommer Gösta”, a title taken from Philemon Arthur and the Dung, was a sample map of life-affirming songs.
The album sold gold and was a bestseller in the next few years.
In 1976, the children’s album “Bananskiva” was released, which he made together with Fred Åkerström. Lennart Hellsing was responsible for the lyrics.
The critical favorite was 1978’s “Jordsmak,” which contained his most famous song, the Cajun-influenced “Roll in a ball and let it roll.”
In recent years Gösta Linderholm was traveling between the studio, the lyan of the printing press and the music studio in Strängnäs, the house in Vaxholm, the cottage in Härjedalen and a village in Provence.
Lasse Berghagen, artist and former host of “Allsång på Skansen”, remembers a cheerful professional colleague.
– We work a lot together and he was in Skansen. I remember him as a very positive and happy person, and he spread a positive energy around him. It really was “Roll a ball and let it roll.” I only have one bright memory of him. Very sad, Berghagen tells DN.
DN: s Nils Hansson he remembers Gösta Linderholm as a musician with one leg in songs and the other in the world of traditional jazz.
– Gösta Linderholm was the face of the Swedish Jazz Band, a large and popular cheerleader band who made funny Swedish versions of traditional jazz songs.
– But he was also a singer who made a solo career when he broke through. He pulled in the poetic and in tune direction, even if it was a bit tjo and tjim.
When Nils Hansson himself saw Gösta Linderholm when he was 14 in the late 1970s, he was taken aback by the rocky tone.
– It was a bit more of a rock concert than I was prepared for, so I felt a little less out of place than I thought.
The text is updated.
