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Place of Birth: Falköping, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
About Johnny Bode
- Johnny Bode (6 January 1912 in Falköping, Sweden – 25 July 1983 in Malmö, Sweden) was a Swedish singer, composer and enfant terrible. After his debut at seventeen years old, Bode recorded hundreds of songs on the gramophone, many of them his own compositions.
- One of his best-known songs is "En herre i frack" (A Gentleman in Tailcoat), which Gösta Ekman (senior) sang in 1936.
- The song later become popularized by famous Swedish singer Jan Malmsjö, who added it to his repertoire.
- The last gramophone record with Johnny Bode as a singer was recorded in 1942.
- The life of Johnny Bode is one of the most amazing in the history of Swedish music.
- Over and over again, when his career was demolished, he was able to rise and build a new career, only to ruin it himself shortly after. For the most part, Bode lived far more extravagantly than he was able to afford.
- He was a well-known figure in show business in those days, and was liked in the pubs because of his generous style.
- Even the fact that he was often broke didn't stop him.
- He was a master of sneaking out the back door and letting others pay his debts.
- Another distinguishing characteristic of Bode was his unmatched mythomania.
- Over and over again he lied to others, a personality flaw that blackened his career.
- He became good friends with Gösta Ekman and was almost like a son to him, until the day Ekman discovered that Bode had tried to sell their silverware set to a pawnbroker.
- Bode skipped out on countless hotel bills, and was blacklisted by several of Stockholm's finest restaurants.
- He was also involved in the theft of expensive carpets, and embezzlement through false checks. Bode's out-of-control lifestyle many times led him into crime.
- After many cases of fraud, he was declared incapable, and put into psychiatric care in the mental hospital of St.
- Sigfrid in Växjö, Sweden.
- In connection with the diagnosis, he was sterilized.
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