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“Lustans Lakejer received an incredibly tragic message today. Our dear brother Tom Wolgers has passed away after a period of illness,” the group writes on Facebook and continues:
“We are currently at a loss for words to describe the pain we feel, but we believe that Tom, wherever he is, would appreciate it tonight if he played his favorite piece of his work and drank a glass of fine red wine in his honor. “
Musician, model and songwriter Tom Wolgers made his debut at Lustans Lakejer in 1981 with the single “Stilla nätter”. He played the keyboard in style in the pioneering Swedish group new wave and synth pop with Johan Kinde as a singer and pop visionary. Kinde and Wolgers wrote most of the band’s songs.
The band made music that was heavily stylistically influenced by British groups such as Roxy Music, Ultravox, Duran Duran along with David Bowie and Japan. The lyrics usually told stories not lived by oneself about agents, beautiful ladies, casinos and flirtations. The names of the songs were repeatedly taken from movies and books.
Wolgers left the band after the album “Uppdrag i Genève”, worked as a photographic model and started the pop band Mockba Music with, among others, Johan Vävare. In 1986, together with Irma Schultz, he released the single “Body & soul” under the name of the band Paris Bis.
Johan Kinde and Tom Wolgers reunited in the band in 1993 and then they released the compilation album “Raffel i Rangoon” which had an emphasis on Lustans Lakejer from the early 1980s.
In 2016, the group celebrated their 35th anniversary and also toured the following year when, among other things, they performed the 1982 album “A place in the sun” in its entirety.
Wolgers has also written music for art exhibitions, including the Stockholm Suite, which was displayed at the Moderna museum with photographs by Bruno Ehrs.
Tom Wolgers was born in 1959 in Stockholm, he is the son of Beppe Wolgers.
Johan Kinde played together with Tom Wolgers at Lustans Lakejer.
– I’ve known him since I was 17-18 years old, so I feel great loss and sadness and I think about his girlfriend and his family, says Johan Kinde.
He met Tom Wolgers last summer for a special concert at KB in Malmö and spoke to him on the phone a few months ago.
– Then he was happy and in a good mood. So it was probably quick towards the end, he had suffered from cancer but none of the friends knew about it and I don’t really know how much he knew himself either, says Johan Kinde and continues:
– He was a wonderful and warm person. It feels good to know that your music will live on.
Benton Wolgers, half brother of Tom Wolgers tells DN that the family is in shock.
– We had different mothers and we never grew up together, but of course it feels very shocking and deeply sad, she says.
The text is updated.