Ted Gardestad

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Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad (18 February 1956 – June 1997), a Swedish singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor known worldwide as Ted.

Gärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, becoming a member of Polar Music.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, both in-house developers, released his first album, "Hela vs. Runt," in late 1971, and he collaborated closely with the four members of ABBA to produce his debut album Undringar (1972).

He continued to perform with the group members during the 1970s, including ABBA's Ted (1973), Uppt (1974), and Franska Kort (1976), which were moderately successful.

Ted and his brother Kenneth Gärdestad performed at Melodifestivalen, the competition to select Sweden's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1978, and the artist "Satellit" was released in 1978. They won the competition that qualified them to represent Sweden at Eurovision held in Jerusalem.

At Melodifestivalen, Gärdestad tried to enter a song for the second time, but was unsuccessful.

He left the music industry soon after to try acting.

He began performing with other artists, including Harpo, in the 1990s.

From 1994 to his death in 1997 by suicide, Gärdestad toured extensively.

Ted Gärdestad's skull was included in a biographical film released in 2018: Ted: För kärlekens skull.

Early life

Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad was born in Arne (1923–2016) and Margit Gärdestad (née Sjöholm; 1921–2008) on Sunday in Sollentuna, Stockholm County, Sweden. He was the youngest of three siblings and had two older brothers; Kjell (1944–2000) and Kenneth (1948–2018). During Ted's childhood, the family lived in Sollentuna.

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Career

Ted Gärdestad started his career as a musician in 1962, appearing on Swedish television at the age of six years old. When he landed a role in En sm'sm vid seklets början, he debuted as an actor in 1966. (A Small Town at the Turn of the Century) Gärdestad appeared in the American film Story of a Woman in 1970, as Bibi Andersson, Robert Stack, and James Farentino. Gärdestad was also a promising tennis player. After Björn Borg, he came second in his age group in Sweden at 14 years old, and he considered a career as a professional tennis player but instead chose a career in music. Ted Gärdestad, a 15-year-old boy from Stig "Stikkan" Anderson, who would later lead the pop group ABBA, contacted the record company Polar Music in 1971, revealing an audition tape to Stig "Stikkan" Anderson. Ted was a composer and singer, while Kenneth wrote lyrics to Ted's songs, a partnership that continued throughout Ted's career. Ted was later signed to the label and assigned to in-house designers Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, who were later in the process.

Gärdestad's first album, the gospel-inspired "Hela värlen runt"), was released in late 1971 ("All Over the World"). ("I Want a Moon of My Own"), a song he wrote at age 12, brought him to the Swedish public's notice. He appeared at folkparks straight away, becoming the country's first teen idol. Ted's debut album Undringar ("Wonderings") was released on Polar Music in early 1972, with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad providing backing vocals. All four members of ABBA continued to work with Gärdestad in the 1970s. Ted (1972), Ted (1973), Uppt.g (1974), and Franska Kort (1976) were both made with the same recording and production methods, engineers (including Michael B. Tretow) and musicians as contemporaneous ABBA recordings.

Gärdestad began competing in Melodifestivalen 1973, the competition to select Sweden's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. "Oh, vilken härlig dag" ("Oh, What a Lovely Day") came in joint fourth place. "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid, a quartet from Björn & Benny, came third with a song called "Ring Ring" (Bara du slog en signal). Gärdestad made another attempt in Melodifestivalen 1975 with the song "Rockin' Reelin'"; Svenne and Lotta came third in third, but Gärdestad finished seventh, but the song became a hit single on radio charts Svensktoppen, Heta Högen, and Kvällstoppen. In 1977, Gärdestad and his brother Kenneth performed "The Best of Both" ("The Best of All") with Polar Music labelmate Lena Andersson. They came eighth out of ten entries, but Gärdestad did not track them down.

Ted was a well-known celebrity in Sweden by 1975. His love life was chronicled by national newspapers, he had a fan club, and all of his albums were certified gold and sold well in Scandinavia. He was Polar Music's best-selling artist, aside from Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Anni-ABBA and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. With the title "Gonna Make You My Angel," Stikkan had intended to bring him internationally, Ted wrote both Swedish and English versions of "Rockin's "I'm Going to Meet An Angel" ("I'm Going to Catch An Angel"), the former with lyrics by Gary Osborne; neither were a big hit. Mark Holden, an Australian pop star, did have a huge success in Australia with "Jag ska f en ängel" under the tag "I Want To Make You My Lady" in 1976.

By 1977, Gärdestad was faced with a problem that was common to many child actors and teen idols; as he grew up, so did his fans. The time of teen fever and shrieling crowds in the folkparks was winding down, and Björn and Benny, the early pioneers of the sport, were now writing, producing, and promoting ABBA, but Polar in-house designers Björn and Benny, who had been instrumental in his youth's fame, are now full throttle. One single, the Melodifestivalen entry "Rockin' Reelin," was released in 1975. The label released Franska Kort ("French Cards") in 1976, an acronym for a relatively innocent form of late-19th-century pornography), but the label was only partially released with Björn and Benny, and Tretow and Janne Schaffer co-produced. "Angela," "Chapeau-Claque" (French for top hat), "När showen är slut") and "Klöversnoa," a novelty folk dance parody with Benny and Gärdestad playing accordion, are among the album's hit singles "Angela" ("When the Show is Over") and "Klöversnoa" ("When the Show is Over") were among the concerto The album reached its high point at No. 1. It's his first album not to make it to the top of the Swedish charts, and it's been on the charts for 22 weeks, which was a modest success compared to his previous launches. ABBA and the majority of the Polar Music crew, including musicians and sound engineers, embarked on their first international tour in 1977, earning the ABBA: The film and recording of ABBA: The Album. ABBA: The Album ABBA did not release an album that year.

Stig Anderson and his brother Kenneth travelled to Hollywood in late 1977 to record Gärdestad's first English-language album Blue Virgin Isles. The west coast rock oriented album featured contributions from American and English musicians, including Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, Jim Keltner, David Hungate, Dr. John, and John Mayall, many of whom were Gärdestad's personal idols. "Take Me Back To Hollywood," an English version of "Chapeau-Clacque," and "Love, You're Making All The Fools," were issued worldwide in late 1978 on Epic Records, and the album "Take Me Back To Hollywood," a French version of "Chapeau-Clacque." Despite the expensive manufacturing and the massive push to debut Gärdestad, which included promotional appearances alongside ABBA, his Swedish success did not translate internationally. The album reached No. 1 in Sweden. On the chart, 29 years old and lasted just over a week. Blue Virgin Isles is the only studio album that has not been re-released on CD by Polar Music/PolyGram/Universal Music Group, thirty years since its inception.

Ted and Kenneth Gärdestad's fourth attempt at Melodifestivalen in early 1979, and they won with the song "Satellit," a mid-tempo rock track with a similarity to Toto's 1978 hit "Hold the Line." The similarities fueled rumors of plagiarism in the Swedish media and disqualification from the competition. During the Blue Virgin Isles sessions in Los Angeles, which later developed to "Hold the Line" as the band's producer Janne Schaffer had seen four of the future Toto singers, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, David Hungate, and Steve Lukather, experimenting with a guitar and bass riff. Schaffer was inspired by what he had heard when he drafted the script for "Satellit" but at that time neither "Hold the Line" nor Toto's debut eponymous album had been released. In February 1979, Jeff Poro wrote a letter to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet: "No, it's not a rip-off; Ted did not steal our music." Those piano triplets and the guitar line date back to the 1950s, and the fact that we both use variations on the same subject matter in our songs today is entirely coincidental." Ted, a singer from Sweden, appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem in March 1979. After being campaigned four times in the pre-election process before winning and with his personal link to ABBA, hopes and aspirations were high. The song earned eight points and finished seventeenth out of nineteen registered entries, giving Sweden's second-lowest finish in the competition. The Swedish-language single has been a Top ten hit back home in Sweden, and "Satellit" is one of Ted's signature tunes. The English-language version of the track never charted, and neither did the re-release of Blue Virgin Isles, which included both versions, making it clear that Ted's Scandinavian audiences adored his Swedish-language content.

After an unsuccessful return to Melodifestivalen in 1980, with "Let the Sun Warm You" ("Let the Sun Warm You") with Danni Boller and poor sales of his 1981 album Stormvarning (#31, 2 weeks)—which was widely circulated as I'd Rather Write a Symphony on the Polydor label in a few countries and equally ignored—Gärdestad left the music scene at the age of 25.

After leaving the music industry, Gärdestad made a brief and unsuccessful attempt at acting and shortly after, began exploring meditation and Eastern religions. He became involved with the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (also known as Osho) campaign and renounced his earlier life. In an interview with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in mid-1983, he said he no longer wanted to be branded "Ted Gärdestad"; rather, Swami Sangit Upasani. He wore clothing in a particular shade of orange, as with all Bhagwan disciples. As his involvement in the movement progressively took over his life and his family, Gärdestad distanced himself from his peers in the music business and his family. He unexpectedly left his family and relatives in Oregon, United States, one month before his second child with actress Ann Zacharias was born in June 1983. Gärdestad's family persuaded him to return to Sweden three years after Rajneesh was convicted of immigration fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement of his disciples' assets, and bioterrorism perpetrators who were later deported from the United States. His persistent mental disorders were getting more apparent.

Olof Palme, Sweden's Prime Minister, had been shot shortly after Gärdestad's return to Sweden in 1986. "The 33-year-old," a witness in the assassination probe, which left him seriously wounded, but Gärdestad was on holiday in Greece at the time of the assassination, and although police never interviewed him nor was under suspicion by the authorities, the rumors and rumors followed him and his family for the remainder of the 1980s. He was back on the front page of rumors accusing him of being Lasermannen, a bank robber, and serial murderer a few years ago. The rumors harmed the young and fragile former actor, and Gärdestad succumbered to a deep depression.

Gärdestad was briefly coaxed out of retirement by his companion and fellow Swedish pop artist Harpo in the early 1990s. He appeared on stage and appeared in guest appearances at Harpo. They released the duet "Lycka" ("Happiness") as a single in 1992, but it attracted little interest, but it coincided with Gärdestad's return to music. He began his first tour since 1978 and appeared on a number of dates with Plura Jonsson, Tove Naess, Totta Näslund, and Dan Hylander, earning overall praise from the media.

A tour in the Swedish folkparks in 1993 promoted a compilation album called Kalendarium 1972–93; the album and tour were well received, as did his first piece in twelve years, "For Love's Sake," which topped the Svensktoppen chart. The Kalendarium collection featured a Swedish-language re-recording of the title track from Blue Virgin Isles, "Himlen oskyldigt bl" ("The Sky Is Innocently Blue"), which became one of his most popular songs fifteen years after its initial release, and became one of his most popular music. Kalendarium 1972–93 received a platinum disc in early 1994. Both of Gärdestad's albums from the 1970s and early 1980s, with the exception of Blue Virgin Isles, were re-released on CD by Polar, and a generation of Swedes who grew up listening to his music has re-discovered and re-evaluated his back catalogue as adults. Evert Taube, Carl Michael Bellman, Cornelis Vreeswijk, and Cornelis Vreeswijk's bodies of work have since been considered a national treasure by fans and Swedish music critics alike.

Gärdestad released a full album of new content titled 'Ntligen p g', which was created by longtime friend Janne Schaffer. The album featured contributions from ABBA drummer Per Lindvall, Björn J.son Lindh, Gladys del Pilar, and other well-known Swedish musicians. "If You Wanted Me"), "On My Radio" ("If You Wanted Me"), "I min radio"), and "She's the Woman") were among the Svensktoppen charts, which culminated in a series of singles including "Ge en sol" ("If You Wanted Me"), "I min radio" ("You Wanted Me"), "I min radio"), and "She's the Woman" ("She's the Woman") The lyrics were light, harmonious, hopeful, and hopeful, and Gärdestad's future seemed more promising; his name was finally established, he remarried, and he was back to making music. He made several television appearances on television supporting the ntligen p vsg album as well as an acoustic concert on ZTV. He toured extensively through 1994, 1995, and 1996. Gärdestad committed suicide by jumping in front of a train on June 22, 1997, when he was 41. Schaffer, J.son Lindh, Tretow, Barbro 'Lill-Babs' Svensson and Agnetha Fältskog were the only ones from his musical career to attend his funeral.

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