In the 1960s he toured Britain and met Chris Barber, a jazz band leader and enthusiastic amateur racer. The members went their separate ways and Borgudd joined Solar Plexus and freelanced with the Hootenanny Singers.īy this time, he had started racing. The effects of ABBA's music were changing the Swedish scene and there was little demand for groups like Made in Sweden. Albums called With Love, Snakes in a Hole and Live! At the Golden Circle followed but the band split up in the early 1970s. Although the band wasn't a hit in period, Swedish music aficionados are now appreciating the impact the band had on the regional music scene. The group broke up in 1968 and Borgudd and Haggstrom joined Georg Wadenius to form Made in Sweden, a progressive jazz rock fusion group. By 1966, the group had grown up and left school and was in demand for gigs in Stockholm as well as on television. The band underwent many manifestations but three mainstays were: Bo Haggarstrom (electric bass), Sigge Ehlin (guitar, harmonica and vocals) and Borgudd.
Borgudd the musician began his career in 1961 when he joined the Lea Riders Group - he wasn't even 15 when he picked up his drumsticks for the school-based band. Motor racing was something in which he developed an interest as a small boy when he watched Stirling Moss win in 1959 at Karlskoga, but Borgudd the racing driver was many years away. Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd was born in Borholm on the small island of Oland in Sweden in 1946 and followed a career in music. Anyone who can race in a grand prix and lay claim to being a drummer with ABBA has got to be a bit of a hero.
Slim Borgudd only scored one point in his brief time in Formula One, but he was an accomplished racing driver as well as being successful in his other life as a musician.
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