A few days later they changed the name to Ebba Grön after the codeword used by the police in Operation Leo.
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Ebba Grön also covered "White Riot" by The Clash and "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf (which also was recorded in studio) at some of their gigs.
Lennart Eriksson, also known as Fjodor, the former punk star from Ebba Grön, moved to Gotland soon after he left the band in 1982.
The Swedish punk band Ebba Grön, formed in 1977, named themselves after the code word used in the police operation.
Ebba Grön | Ebba Stenbock | Ebba St. Claire | Ebba Maria De la Gardie | Ebba Bernadotte | Ebba |
On the CD-version there are three hidden tracks in the end of the final track: Bingo singing Staten och kapitalet, a 70's radical left-wing progressive rock tune by Blå Tåget made into a national hit song in Sweden in 1980 by punk rock band Ebba Grön, Evel Knievel performing a poem named Why? and John Culliton Mahoney performing his song The Ballad of Evel Knievel.
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:*12:04-16:58 – Bengt “Bingo” Calmeyer sings Staten och Kapitalet, a cover of Blå Tåget (made famous by Ebba Grön).
It starts in Rågsved, a working class suburb of Stockholm, and follows Ebba Grön on tour around Sweden until the band returns to Rågsved.