 Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", which he had purloined from his girlfriend, he moved into a friend's vacant apartment and started writing.When the unfortunate friend returned, he found that he had been evicted from his apartment after numerous complaints about the noise Hansson was creating.Hansson retreated to a remote cottage on an island off Stockholm where he, drummer Rune Carlsson and engineer Anders Lind, who had worked previously with Hansson & Karlsson, spent the winter of 1969 recording what was to become Hansson's debut solo album on a borrowed four track recorder.