Ted Gärdestad

Mixing slick production with sensitive, often naïve lyrics, Ted Gärdestad moved from a position as child star to become a Swedish teen idol in the '70s. But his feeling for melodies took him further than that, and he effectively filled the gap between the progressive movement's experiments and ABBA's disco-pop. Managing the difficult transition from child star to teen idol he later failed to make much impact on a more mature audience and went quiet in the '80s. After a troubled decade he tried to make a comeback in the early '90s, but soon disappeared again before taking his l...