Jan Gradvall
Jan Gradvall (b. 1963) is an award-winning writer and Sweden’s most respected music journalist in the last 40 years. He has written several books on popular culture before, but says about MELANCHOLY UNDERCOVER that “[i]t feels as though everything I’ve written about music has led up to this book.”
Gradvall is the recipient of the Swedish Publicists’ Association’s Grand Prize in 2013 for “his perfect pitch when depicting everything that makes life interesting”, and won Journalist of the Year awarded by trade organization Sweden’s Magazines in 2001. Gradvall was also instrumental in the founding of the Swedish Music Hall of Fame and served as chairman the first three years since its inauguration.
He has a uniquely close journalistic relationship with ABBA, and has appeared in two BBC documentaries, The Joy of ABBA and Flatpack Pop about the Swedish songwriting phenomenon before writing MELANCHOLY UNDERCOVER.
Books by Jan Gradvall
Melancholy Undercover
Jan Gradvall
A new music biography based on openhearted interviews with all four members of ABBA over the past decade. Unusual by form with a personal narrative, this book goes beyond previously known facts about one of the world’s most famous and secretive bands…
