Eddie Meduza (real name Errol Leonard Norstedt; 17 June 1948 – 17 January 2002) was a Swedish composer and musician working mainly in the rockabilly genre. Many of his songs were about alcohol, women, and cars, often with obscene lyrics. Sometimes they were also politically oriented, many aimed against the Swedish Government in power at the time Moderaterna-Centerpartiet-Folkpartiet and Swedish Social Democrats (Conservative respectively Labour-parties) and also against the Norwegians. He was also a popular performer of Raggare music. Norstedt's other identity was the far more vulgar E. Hitler. In this guise he generally recorded more dubious material from pure ridiculous recordings like "E.Hitler skiter" (a recording of himself move the bowels) to sexually explicit material. The E.Hitler recordings were only available through tapes, that customers had order by mail directly from his small sole proprietorship (during his lifetime, some of these tapes appear to have become copied to CDs posthumously). He did, however, have a certain deeper humorous line as well. For instance, did he joke about the in Sweden famous singer Carola Häggkvist, by his recording "Carolas pattar" ("Carola's tits")—which his fans presumably would hope to be very sexist—but that turned out to be an all instrumental recording? On tour (as Eddie Meduza) could he urge his audience to drink vodka, and become just as drunk as he usually was himself during his performances, to the tunes of his "Mera brännvin" ("More moonshine!", would be the best translation).
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17 June 1948
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Died |
17 January 2002 (aged 53)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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