''Fri information'' is the fifth and final studio album by the Swedish

progg Progg was a left-wing and anti-commercial musical movement in Sweden that began in the late 1960s and became more widespread in the 1970s. Not to be confused with the English expressions "progressive music" or "prog rock," progg is a contraction ...

and

rock Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...

band

Hoola Bandoola Band The Hoola Bandoola Band was a Swedish progg group from the 1970s whose political views leaned towards the left. Leading members included Mikael Wiehe and Björn Afzelius. The Hoola Bandoola Band is also mentioned in Lynne Truss' book '' Going ...

. It was recorded in August 1975 and released in October of the same year on the record label MNW. The album is the band's first with

Björn Afzelius Björn Svante Afzelius (27 January 1947 – 16 February 1999 ) was a Swedish singer-songwriter and guitar player. He was an outspoken socialist, known for his support for Olof Palme. His songs are about love, politics and joys and sadness in l ...

as a songwriter.

Mikael Wiehe Mikael Christian Wiehe (born 10 April 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. As the main songwriter and driving force of Hoola Bandoola Band he was also one of the most important people in the progg movemen ...

had previously written all of the songs, except for "Dansmelodi", which was written by Thomas Wiehe. The album was the band's last before their breakup in 1976. The album sold 43,000 copies, and its artwork was made by Tore Berger.

Track listing

;Side one # "Tillbaka (Stures sång)" (

) - 4:50 # "Älska mej, Bill" (Wiehe) - 4:15 # "Birmingham" (

) - 4:03 # "LTO-tango" (Afzelius) - 2:55 # "Victor Jara" (Wiehe) - 4:30 ;Side two # "Kvinnoförakt" (Afzelius) - 5:08 # "Huddinge, Huddinge" (Wiehe) - 4:20 # "Juanita" (Afzelius) - 4:53 # "Hur länge skall vi vänta" (Wiehe) - 6:53

Charts

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

- guitar,

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

, flute, vocals *Peter Clemmedson - guitar, banjo *Arne Franck - bass *Povel Randén -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, guitar, accordion, vocals *Per-Ove Kellgren - drums *Håkan Skytte -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

References

External links

* 1975 albums Hoola Bandoola Band albums {{1970s-album-stub