This was confirmed by his son Rickard Segerman Aftonbladet.
Hegland fell asleep after a short illness.
The bassist from Stockholm started a band in 1963 together with his friend Christer Pettersson, whom he met while they were doing their military service. Eventually the band gained more members and The Hep Stars was a fact. The group made its breakthrough in 1965 with songs such as “Cadillac” and “Farmer John” and was in the mid-1960s one of the most popular groups in both Norway and Sweden.
Their biggest hit was the anti-war song “I natt jag drömde”, with Swedish lyrics by Cornelis Vreeswijk.
Benny Andersson from ABBA was previously a member of the group. It was in Hep Stars that Andersson started his artist career.
Andersson wrote the much-loved, but also somewhat infamous song “Sunny Girl” in a hotel room in Kongsvinger in 1966. The group then recorded the song with the famous words “she is domestic, she is property” in Stockholm.
The song was later changed to the lyrics “she is fantastic, she is beautiful”.
At the end of the decade, several members of the band left, and in the end, Hegland was the last one left of the original crew. Hep Stars was dissolved in 1973, but Hegland continued his music career.
In the late 1990s, he suffered a brain injury that affected his memory and ability to speak.
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