We were totally wild because of it and thought that it would compensate for our musical shortcomings, which, however, it did not. TA: – He wrote the band’s name in pastel and signed underneath. “Sure I can.” He produced an Andy Warhol letterpaper and made a few suggestions that he signed.
When the band got to hear of this we told Calle: “You must ask if he can make us a logo!” And when Calle satt there with Warhol, he actually asked him. That summer they were going to New York and would meet Andy Warhol himself at The Factory. Every summer Arne sold a painting from his art collection to finance a trip for himslef and his grandson Calle. TA: – He had met Hemingway and Salvador Dali and translated Dali’s books.
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Arne was also an art expert and wrote the first book on how to evaluate art. He wrote “Största Cocktailboken2 (The Biggest Cocktail book), which is, as far as I know, still the biggest cocktail book. He introduced Sartre in Swedish, was a social genius and became acquainted with many interesting, remarkable, weird and famous people all over the world. Arne was a Swedish teacher, translator, writer and publisher. He lived in a little two-room flat in Fruängen with his huge art collection and organised litterary solons in the basement.
Our bass player, Calle Häggqvist, had a very original grandfather, Arne Häggqvist. TA: When I was about 15 i was the drummer in a band calleed Ratfab, Roland and the Flying Albatros Band. TAW: Finally, I have to ask if it is true that Andy Warhol designed the cover to your old rock band’s only single? Och det är ju angenämnt att få vara i sällskap med Velvet Underground och Rolling Stones, även om innehållet i vårt fall inte är lika rafflande som utsidan.” Men vi tryckte i alla fall upp en singel och en t-shirt.
Vi blev alldeles febriga av det här och trodde att det skulle kompensera våra brister som musiker, vilket det förstås inte gjorde. TA: – Han skrev vårt bandnamn med fetkrita och så signaturen under. Warhol sa: ”Det kan jag väl göra.” Han tog fram ett Andy Warhol-brevpapper och gjorde några olika förslag som han signerade. När vi i bandet fick höra det här sa vi till Calle: ”Du måste fråga om han inte kan göra vår logotype!” Och när Calle satt där med Warhol så frågade han faktiskt. Den här sommaren skulle de åka till New York och träffa självaste Andy Warhol på The Factory. Varje sommar sålde Arne en tavla ur sin konstsamling för att finansiera en resa åt honom och barnbarnet Calle. TA: – Han hade träffat Hemingway och Salvador Dali och översatt Dalis böcker. Arne var också konstexpert och skrev den första boken om hur man värderar konst. Han skrev Största cocktailboken, som mig veterligen fortfarande är den största cocktailboken. Han introducerade Sartre på svenska, var ett socialt geni och lärde känna många intressanta, märkliga och berömda människor över hela världen. Arne var svensklärare, översättare, skribent och förläggare. Han bodde i en liten tvåa i Fruängen med sin stora konstsamling och anordnade litterära salonger i källaren. Vår basist, Calle Häggqvist, hade en mycket originell farfar, Arne Häggqvist. TA:– När jag var i 15-årsåldern var jag trummis i ett band som hette Ratfab, Roland And The Flying Albatros Band. TAW: “T ill sist måste jag fråga om det är sant att Andy Warhol gjorde skivomslaget till ditt gamla rockbands enda singel.
Andy Warhol’s design for the RATFAB single cover. Here’s the text where he explains how Warhol came to design the cover. At the end of the interview he was asked whether it was true that Andy Warhol had designed the cover for a single by the band in which he had been the drummer. The article is actually an interview with Tomas Alfredsson, a Swedish film producer. The article is in Swedish and, coincidentally was published on Andy Warhol’s birthday, 6th August 2008, in the Swedish magazine Café. He has recently helped find the article again and here is the link: I lost the article but have always credited Tomas with being the one who tipped me off on the existence of the cover. A few days later he mailed me the article and my hunt for the RATFAB single started. Unfortunately, Tomas could not remember where he had read the article, but he promised to try to locate it. One month later, my friend Tomas Ersson, visited me and I told him about the exhibition and he mentioned that he had recently read an article in a magazine where a Swedish musician told a story about how Andy Warhol had designed the cover for a single by the band he had been in as a 15-year-old. The exhibition was entitled “ Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol” as it coincided with what would have been Warhol’s 80th birthday on 6th August 2008. Between 23rd July and 31st August 2008, the first exhibition of Andy Warhol’s record cover art was shown at Piteå Museum, Piteå, in the north of Sweden.
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