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Tyggegummibanden

Danish mid 70's pop/rock band with teenage-appeal and lyrics in Danish. The band was formed in 1974 by songwriters [a839980] & [a1603405] and bass player [a719847], who were members of the English-singning rock/pop band [a707367] and transformed it into [a762782]. The first line-up was completed with then 17-year old wonderkid on drums, [a343725], who in 1974 played with [a719847] in the latin fusion group [a707386]. It is a widely known 'secret' in the Danish music industry that [a343725] is the (uncredited) drummer on the first Tyggegummibanden-album, [r=5733110] However he left the band after the recordings were done, and thus the drummer whose image is featured on the back cover, [a257746] didn't join the band until after the recordings. On all subsequent releases the drummer was [a257746]. He joined the band right after the first album together with [a=Michael Bruun], who also came from [a707367]. Side note: Bruun and Sivertsen knew each other from another project they had with [a719847], which in 1976 materialized as the jazz-rock fusion group [a=Heavy Joker]. On the second album [m=1107002] in 1975, the band was shortly joined by [a2798635], who replaced Bødtcher on that release only. At the same time Tyggegummibanden changed style to do cover-versions of rock standards with 'funny' lyrics, just like their competitors, [a250431]. However the band changed style once more and played own compositions again on the third album [r=1973005] in 1977. At the 1977-release the group also changed its name to "Banden" to get rid of the teenage-image, but after protests from a theater group also called "Banden", the band changed its bandname back to [a=Tyggegummibanden]. One year after the third album, [a=Tyggegummibanden] disbanded in 1978. The two incoming band members after the first album, [a=Michael Bruun] and [a=Jan Sivertsen], later became important musicians as members of [a=Tøsedrengene] and [a=Ray Dee Ohh], and both made rich contributions to the "golden age" of Danish rock-pop music in the 80's and 90's: Michael Bruun became a central figure as star producer of many popular Scandinavian artists, and Jan Sivertsen played with [a250436] and [a521401] and also produced several high-profiled pop albums in the 2000's.