ROCKEDRØMMEN

Book · hardback · 2025

ROCKEDRØMMEN

en spinnvill rockereise fra gutterommet til Kinas største rockefestival

About the book
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Calidris forlag
Pages
638
ISBN
9788284672939
Language
Norsk, Bokmål

An English translation of the book is in the works, targeted for release during 2026. An e-book edition is also in progress.

Rockedrømmen (2025): Kjell Moberg’s Calidris hardback (638pp, Bokmål, ISBN 9788284672939). Official OPR companion, 22 chapters with video. Retail: ARK, Bokklubben.

First and foremost, Rockedrømmen is a book: a hardback, richly illustrated edition (638 pages) published by Calidris in autumn 2025. The story follows Kjell from his boyhood dream all the way to a concert in front of tens of thousands in Beijing, and it draws on his real life in bands, DIY scenes, and touring, not fiction.

This website is a companion to the book: the same 22 chapters, each with a video layer you can open while reading (or when you just want to travel chronologically through the clips).

Elsewhere on the web

These links document the Rockedrømmen, Kjell, China, and broader rock archive in chronological order.

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2016

2017

2020

2021

2022

2023

2025

The 22 chapters

A chapter-by-chapter companion to the book. Open any chapter for the story in Kjell's own words, its photos and press, and the video archive.

  1. 01 A little boy in love with music It started on Grandfather’s old turntable, with Neil Diamond, Wenche Myhre and Dizzie Tunes, and me banging my head against the wall in time. Elvis, the Beatles and the Stones filled the house, and my uncle handed me the harder stuff (Thin Lizzy, the Sex Pistols), which I stole from the cellar stairs while he and his mates loaded up for the weekend, bottles clinking and the music loud and good. A neighbour’s Bob Marley put a reggae beat in my blood that’s still there. And the dream was never small. Not just to be Elvis, but world domination from the stage: a rock’n’roll free-fall with no brakes, from here to eternity and back. Rock never felt like work the way school did. Music kindergarten and the local corps? They never took. 9 videos Read
  2. 02 The awakening: the late ’70s and the wide-open ’80s 10 videos Read
  3. 03 The last of the wild ’80s 18 videos Read
  4. 04 Summing up the journey so far 28 videos Read
  5. 05 The ’80s fade, the ’90s arrive 24 videos Read
  6. 06 The big record deal 2 videos Read
  7. 07 Up from the ashes, blooming again 8 videos Read
  8. 08 Yugoslavia, here we come! 1 video Read
  9. 09 Phase three 26 videos Read
  10. 10 1995: a new year and new possibilities 2 videos Read
  11. 11 A new record deal and more touring, 1996 20 videos Read
  12. 12 The beginning of the end 12 videos Read
  13. 13 A new millennium on the doorstep 9 videos Read
  14. 14 England and the Italian mafia 4 videos Read
  15. 15 The China adventure 25 videos Read
  16. 16 Os Rock Club 10 videos Read
  17. 17 My record labels and releases Read
  18. 18 Booking, concerts and tours 140 videos Read
  19. 19 China, ego, solo, and no compromises 64 videos Read
  20. 20 2010: a new album, on top of the world 31 videos Read
  21. 21 The Peace Prize and a last China visit 18 videos Read
  22. 22 After China: the future and the road ahead 21 videos Read

Sources: the page-by-page cross reference to the archive