Eddie Meduza
| Eddie Meduza | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Errol Leonard Norstedt |
| Also known as | Eddie Meduza |
| Born | 17 June 1948 |
| Died | 17 January 2002 (aged 53) |
| Genres | Rockabilly, Punk, Dansband music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, guitarist |
| Years active | 1973–2001 |
| Website | eddiemeduza |
Eddie Meduza (real name Errol Leonard Norstedt) (17 June 1948 – 17 January 2002) was a Swedish composer and musician working mainly in the rockabilly genre. Many of his songs were about alcohol, women, and cars, often with obscene lyrics. Sometimes they were also politically oriented, many aimed against the Swedish Government in power at the time Moderaterna/Centerpartiet/Folkpartiet and Swedish Social Democrats (Conservative respectively Labour-parties) and also against the Norwegians. He was also a popular performer of Raggare music. Norstedt's other identity was the far more vulgar E. Hitler. In this guise he generally recorded more dubious material from pure ridiculous recordings like "E.Hitler skiter" (a recording of himself move the bowels) to sexually explicit material. The E.Hitler recordings were only available through tapes, that customers had order by mail directly from his small sole proprietorship (during his lifetime, some of these tapes appear to have become copied to CD's posthumously). He did however have a certain deeper humorous line as well. For instance did he joke about the in Sweden famous singer Carola Häggkvist, by his recording "Carolas pattar" ("Carola's tits") - which his fans presumably would hope to be very sexist - but that turned out to be an all instrumental recording. On tour (as Eddie Meduza) could he urge his audience to drink vodka, and become just as drunk as he usually was himself during his performances, to the tunes of his "Mera brännvin" ("More booze !" , would be the best translation).
He is remembered now mostly for his more explicit work, but many of his songs are very ironic and some contain clever, albeit unpolished, social commentary, and earn his music something of a cult following. Norstedt also recorded serious rockabilly songs with a distinct 1950s flavour in his own studio, called Studio Ronka (ronka or runka is Swedish slang for masturbation, similar to wanking in English.). He played most of the instruments himself. He often got bad reviews from the press, notably Expressen journalist Mats Olsson, to which Norstedt replied by writing even more offensive songs, such as Kuken står på Mats Olsson (Mats Olsson has a hard-on), Mats Olsson är en jävla bög (Mats Olsson is a damn fag) and Mats Olsson runkar kuken (Mats Olsson is wanking his cock). He reportedly said that no matter what he did it was never good enough for the critics.
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