Pontus Olsson

Swedish musician, producer, sound engineer and civil engineer, born 25 June 1948 in Motala, died 24 May 2009 in Daga parish, Södermanland county. He formed the pop band The Beathovens in his hometown in 1963, in which he played guitar. The band toured with Hep Stars and was associated with their idols The Who. After graduating in the mid-1970s with a master's degree in engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, he focused on the music industry. For three decades, he was one of Sweden's most hired sound engineers and participated in hundreds of record recordings with the country's foremost artists in popular music.