{"id":65,"date":"2023-07-24T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=65"},"modified":"2023-12-07T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:04:13","slug":"ted-garestad","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/artist\/ted-garestad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted G\u00e4rDestad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group artist-header is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ted G\u00e4rdestad playing acoustic guitar.\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-1023x1023.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Ted-Gardestad-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Ted G\u00e4rDestad<\/h1><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Something of a wunderkind and one of the most melodically gifted songwriters Sweden has ever seen, Ted G\u00e4rdestad was only 15 years old when he released his first album on Polar in 1972. This and his following three hit albums were all produced by ABBA\u2019s Benny Andersson and Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus. The core of Ted\u2019s success,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>After Ted\u2019s 1978 English-language album Blue Virgin Isles, recorded in Los Angeles, he represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest the following year. Just a few years later Ted withdrew from the music business for more than a decade, returning to Polar with the 1994 album \u00c4ntligen p\u00e5 v\u00e4g, his final release before his untimely death in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Bengt H. Malmqvist \u00a9 Premium Rockshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something of a wunderkind and one of the most melodically gifted songwriters Sweden has ever seen, Ted G\u00e4rdestad was only 15 years old when he released his first album on Polar in 1972. This and his following three hit albums were all produced by ABBA\u2019s Benny Andersson and Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus. The core of Ted\u2019s success, however, was the extraordinary songs he wrote together with his lyricist brother Kenneth. Today, tunes such as Jag vill ha en egen m\u00e5ne, Sol, vind och vatten, Eiffeltornet, Chapeau-claque and many others are regarded as timeless classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":66,"template":"","class_list":["post-65","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/65\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarmusic.se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}