Biography

Dag Spantell was born on March 24, 1950 in Oslo, Norway. He died on November 30, 2025.

Started the band " Beatboys" in 1962 and later the Misfits and Happy where he made his recording debut.

In 1978 he had a gig in the small fishing community of Båtsfjord in Northern Norway when a fight broke out. Spantell stepped in to separate the fighters and was dealt a serious blow to the throat that crushed his larynx. His singing career seemed over, but he forced himself to participate on the song Sol with the band Strikk, which became a huge radio hit in the summer of 1980.

In 2005 he released his first solo album since the 1970s, Det beste fra Dag Spantell, a greatest hits collection including 22 of his songs from 1968 to 1970.

Dag Spantell was a Norwegian singer. At the age of twelve he was inspired by The Shadows to start his own instrumental band called Beatboys, in which he played rhythm guitar. A huge fan of The Beatles he later joined the band Misfits in 1964, where he was a member until co-founding the band Happie in 1967.n singer who hit the height of his popularity in the 1970s.

Spantell looked set on retiring from music life, and educated himself as a cook in 1969. However he would continue as a musician, mainly as the lead singer of the dance band Kjell Karlsens Orkester. In 1973 he was given the song Kjendis-party, a Norwegian translation of the Ricky Nelson-hit Garden Party. The song became widely popular and reached No. 4 on Norsktoppen (an official chart for music in Norwegian).