Bo Hansson was born on 10 April 1943 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is a musician best known for his four instrumental albums released in the 1970s. Early life and musical career He spent his early life in a remote village in the pine forests of northern Sweden, but a change in his parents' fortunes forced a move to Stockholm and they were forced to leave the young Hansson behind, in the care of family friends. As a teenager he joined his parents in Stockholm, where he soon became interested in the burgeoning rock 'n' roll scene and taught himself to play the guitar, before joining one of Sweden's earliest rock 'n' roll bands, Rock-Olga. After the rock 'n' roll craze gave way to jazz and blues in the late fifties, he joined 'Slim' Notini's Blues Gang as a guitarist. Notini had a reputation of nurturing young talent, in the same way that John Mayall was doing in Britain, and from there Hansson was able to move on and form his own blues grou

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