In 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer , Mick Jones (guitarist of The Clash) traveled to Sweden to play a tribute for the recently deceased musician with Ebba Grön.
When Fjodor ended up in jail for four months for refusing to do his military service it was the beginning of the end for Ebba Grön. But, without Fjodor, the band lived on as Rymdimperiet ; they released their first album in 1983, now under the name Imperiet . Musically…
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During the recording of their second album and the tour that followed, the band was followed by Johan Donner , who was making a documentary about the band. Ebba the Movie was released for the big screen in 1982.
Their third album, simply named Ebba Grön , was released in 1982, and the influence of Stry was even more obvious. The band later said they attempted to make a ” Rolling Stones -Album”; a cover of the Stones’ Happy was recorded but not included on the album. The album…
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Later that same year the keyboard player Stry was recruited and brought with him new influences. The single Scheisse was released in 1981 parallel with this: Thåström, Gurra, and Stry released a single with the new project Rymdimperiet (The Space Empire), which would later become Imperiet (The Empire).
In 1980, Ebba Grön released a single that would become their most famous song, a cover of Blå Tåget ‘s Den ena handen vet vad den andra gör (The One Hand Knows What the Other One is Doing), renamed Staten och kapitalet (The State and the Capital), with anti-capitalist political…
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One of the first songs performed by Ebba Grön was the controversial Skjut en snut (Shoot a cop), which was never officially recorded. They released their first single Antirock on April 21, 1978. The band bought all the 500 copies themselves and sold them in the streets. After a concert…
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Ebba Grön started a hectic period of touring all over Sweden, during which they also released two more singles. In 1978, the time had come for their album debut We’re Only In It For The Drugs , with songs about the tough, yet boring, lives of young people in working-class…
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During a December 1977 party in Rågsved , a working-class suburb of Stockholm , Thåström, Gurra, and Fjodor formed a band called The Haters . A few days later they changed the name to Ebba Grön after the codeword used by the police in Operation Leo .