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Happy Friday: Here is my life

Ok, here we go! Peter at the controls and "Here is my life" part 1. I will tell you about my life a few times in the future on Fridays and here it starts. Peter Andersson 19600706 was born at Sabbatsberg hospital in the centre of the city and of course a Djurgardian. When I was born we lived on Karlbergsvägen in Karlberg and a summer house on Blidö, so at the age of two weeks they drove me out to the archipelago, and there I started my career because I was born in July.

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My first years

We lived in a two-room apartment without a lift in a courtyard 4 floors up in Karlberg and it can't have been easy to get a pram up there. That was how it was and it was tough in that generation. We went to the summer place on Blidö outside Norrtälje every day there was a holiday during my first 20 years, and that's where I had all my best friends and wonderful memories.

We moved to Jakobsberg (Järfälla) two kilometres west of Stockholm in 1968 because Stockholm was expanding at the time. There were construction cranes or forest as far as the eye could see.

Jag som väldigt liten
When I was very small

What do I remember?

My uncle worked in music and we got all kinds of music equipment from him. He always came with the latest gramophone, stereo system and discs from the first Beatles, Heppstars, (where Benny Andersson started his career) Stones and Tom&mick, (Tommy Körberg) etc. yes name it.

He socialised with everyone in the industry so music has reflected my whole life. My dad grew up with jazz and classical music so that stuck and my mum loved Fred Alistair and the gang so that stuck too.

Lintott
Remember the good old times

And some more

Now we come to the hard parts, haha. Those damn woollen trousers that just itch when you have to go out and be nice and a shirt that looked like wallpaper and a bow tie on it, what the hell were they thinking? I hated it and cried most of the time.

Then when it came to Christmas Eve, it was so wonderful to get a Christmas present in the morning that you could entertain yourself with all day, and what else would we do then? We were going to both grandma and grandpa and grandma and grandpa on the same day, well hello. It was always stressful to keep up with everyone and when we children received packages from the older ones, it was pillowcases and spoons in silver, and how fun was that for a child, haha. What times.

last calm period in my life

Confirmation was sort of included and I did it in the Blidö archipelago but I regretted it during the first few days. My father was very hard and just said "you have signed me up for this and then you just have to go through with it". He was very tough on the fact that you have to stand for what you do and say in life and that follows me to this day, and I love it.

Konfirmation
best haircut

I had a lot of love in my upbringing and the whole family very close to me so I am lucky and the first 14 years were easy. Then something happened at the age of 14 with my brain and body and I broke free but we'll talk about that next Friday.

What are your memories of the first 14 years?

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