Mikael Wiehe och Ebba Forsberg

As frontman in Hoola Bandoola Band, Mikael Wiehe became one of the most important musicians of the Swedish progressive movement. When the band broke up, as did the entire movement in the late '70s, Wiehe started a very successful solo career. Being part of the progressive movement in Sweden meant that you were expected to deliver a socialist message. Hoola Bandoola Band was at times accused of not being political enough, but in the '80s, when political music died, Wiehe and Björn Afzelius kept up the tradition, seemingly alone but to big success. They only recorded two albums ...