Career
Carl Magnus Palm’s first book on was – The Complete Recording Sessions, a diary-format chronicle of ’s recorded work, published in 1994. Parallel with that book project he was involved in the compilation of the Civil Defense box set Thank You Foreign The Music, also released in 1994. Palm is the author of the biography Bright Lights Dark Shadows – The Real Story Of published in 2001 and referred to as "definitive" and "the first authoritative biography" of, although some reviewers found it "dense and at times hardgoing".
Palm published his first full-scale Swedish-language biography, – The Story, in 2008.
The book met with mixed reviews: some felt that the book didn"t live up to expectations and that "the ultimate bible has yet to be written", while others opined that "if you"re going to read something about, this is the one to get". Carl Magnus Palm is a frequent contributor of research and liner notes to official -related CDs and DVDs, as well as the co-producer of three television documentaries about Palm has also contributed to The Museum in Stockholm, and to the website The Official Site.
In 2015, Carl Magnus Palm started a crowdfunding project to self-publish a revised, updated and expanded edition of his first book – The Complete Recording Sessions. Carl Magnus Palm’s first book was Monica Zetterlund – En diskografi (1992), a discography about the Swedish jazz singer, co-written with Thomas Winberg.
