BIOGRAPHY
FROM EPIC

GASOLIN'

They grew up in Christianshavn--Christian harbor:  a safe port--a
section of Copenhagen built by the Dutch in the 16th Century, that
is the oldest part of the city. Tired, abandoned warehouses and
converted flats crowd the wharves and waterways.  Behind the oc-
casional voices of passersby can be heard the creak of wooden moor-
ing posts and the plaintive cry of gulls.

Into this land of placid family life comes ENERGY.  "I was sitting,
taking the sun," says Gasolin's Wili Jønsson, "when this fellow I
knew from the neighborhood came up and asked me to play and get a
band together with him."

Wili, a bass guitarist and keyboardist, had been a professional
musician since the age of 14, moving in and out of local bands,
searching for the right kind of musical atmosphere.  Within a month
of joining Kim Larsen that sun-drenched day in 1969, Wili knew that
he had found his band.  By that time Kim had recruited Franz Becker-
lee, a former Avant garde alto saxist, who was now cutting a mean
lick on the electric guitar, and a drummer who would soon be replaced
by the group's current drummer, Søren Berlev.

The energy shot from Kim like a whirring power generator and the other
musicians found it both infectious and exhilarating.  "The pace was
incredible," recalls Wili.  "Both Kim and Franz had day jobs but
despite this we played six hours every night.  From the beginning, it
was all our material.  Kim already had about two hundred songs and I
had been writing for a while."

At the end of the first month, Kim and Franz quit their jobs and the
band went professional.  And now that it had come time to name the
group there didn't seem to be any problem. Tom, the band's long-time
sound man says:  "I remember the first time I saw them, it was like a
searchlight going through the room--there was so much energy."  They
were Gasolin'.

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