Kim Larsen

For the Norwegian footballer, see Kim Larsen (footballer).
For the Danish neofolk musician, see Of The Wand & The Moon.
Kim Larsen, Nibe Festival 2009.

Kim Melius Flyvholm Larsen (born 23 October 1945) is a Danish rock musician.

Career

Larsen was born in Copenhagen. Inspired by The Beatles and rock and roll, he began as a songwriter and guitarist. In 1969 he met Franz Beckerlee and Wili Jønsson, and the three founded Gasolin' which, later joined by drummer Søren Berlev, became one of the most successful Danish rock bands. The band dissolved in the late 1970s.

In 1979 Larsen participated in the Danish stage of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ud i det blå (en: Out in the Blue). He came third out of 17 participants. The song was included on this album 231045-0637.

Around 1980 Larsen moved to New York. He released two albums but was not successful in breaking through in America and returned to Denmark after a few years.

Kim Larsen released a number of solo albums in the 1980s, topping in 1983 with the album Midt om natten (en: In the Middle of the Night). The album more or less became a soundtrack for the movie by the same name based upon it.[1]

In 1983, Larsen founded the band Kim Larsen & Bellami and released four albums until 1992, when after a couple of different line-ups, the band broke up. He then released another solo album, Hvem kan sige nej til en engel (Who Can Say No To An Angel).

In the mid 1990s he founded the band Kim Larsen & Kjukken which is based in Odense.

Protest singer

Larsen has many times voiced his opposition to the established society and instead advocated the right to be different from the mainstream: The album and movie Midt om natten revolves around this subject - in fact you can compare the movie action to the real Danish BZ movement da:BZ, Sorte Hest and also Freetown Christiania, located in Copenhagen. The same opposition is also shown by the album 231045-0637 - the title is Kim Larsen's social security number which is strictly personal. Larsen was against the big database of every citizen, implied by this title.

As a heavy smoker, he paid in August 2008 an advertising campaign which showed the text "Tillykke med rygeforbudet - Gesundheit macht frei !!!". The first sentence means "Congratulations on the smoking ban" in Danish, the second sentence means "health makes free" in German. Whilst smoking bans are allegedly not made to protect smokers, but non-smokers, Kim Larsen constructed a connection between smoking bans and such Nazi phrases as Arbeit macht frei.[2]

Bands

Gasolin' (1969 - 1978)

Kim Larsen & Jungledreams (1980-1983)

Kim Larsen & Bellami (1983 - 1992)

1983 - 1984:

1986 - 1992:

Kim Larsen & Bell*Star (1993 - 1994)

Kim Larsen & Kjukken (1995 -)

Albums

Solo

Studio
EP's
Compilations
Live

with Gasolin'

Studio
Compilations
Live

with Starfuckers

Live

Kim Larsen & Jungledreams

Studio

Kim Larsen & Bellami

Studio

Kim Larsen & Kjukken

Studio
Live

Charting albums

(All peak positions in Danish Albums Chart)

As Kim Larsen & Kjukken
As Kim Larsen & Bellami
With Gasolin'

References

  1. ↑ "In the Middle of the Night". 9 March 1984 – via IMDb.
  2. ↑ "Kz-offer raser mod Kim Larsen".

External links

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