Mr Soul And His Marshmallows

Swedish punk rock band founded 1982 by Tomas Bartosz, Bosse Svedberg and Nisse Berglund. The three members of the prog band Elvärket first started D.O.R. (Dansorienterad rock) and then merged with three members from Herr Marmelad och hans Skorpor. Soul covers mixed with their own songs written by Nisse "Mr Soul" Berglund and Kjell "Käpp" Eriksson. Two LPs were made - "Live! The soul sessions" 1983 and ”För fanor & dårar"1984 - and a single featuring "Soulrider" and "Hold on", realeased on the punk record company Mistlur. Johan Johansson (from KSMB and John Lenin) was drummer 1983–84. Among the backing singers were the sisters Irma and Idde Schultz, and Hans Thomas Eriksson, later known as "Orup". The brass section also performed under their own name as Hotlips around 1982-83, in the constellations [a1318231], [a3672437] and [a3236245]. During the 2000's, the line-up was: Nisse Berglund (song), Lotta Nilsson (vocals), Tomas Bartosz (guitar), Mats "Linkan" Lindquist (keyboard), Rickard Donatello (bass), Björn Rothstein (drums), Mats "Magic" Gunnarsson (tenorsax) and Stefan ”Guran” Lilja (baritone sax).