Peter, Bjorn and John: how we made Young Folks

‘We performed it with Kanye West at a festival, but his DJ pitched the whistling too high. Kanye made a joke about me not being able to whistle’

Writer’s Block was our third album – we’d been doing the rounds for about five years, trying to get a good slot at some weird festival in Stockholm, building the stage on our own, playing Chinese restaurants and as the opening act on tours for different bands. We probably would have quit if Young Folks hadn’t become the hit that it did.

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