Kim Larsen – without a dime in his pocket

“One time during the start of the 70s, when I was walking around Christianshavn without a dime in my pocket. I had just begun playing and it did not pay. Often when I did not have enough for ten, I thought about frequenting Sjalen. But no, I knew how to read my HUNGER! I’d rather bum a beer or two and buy day old bread from the bakery. That way, you could keep telling yourself that you were a professional, and that you did it for a living. In the midst of everything lay Kofoeds School – shining red in the sun. To go there for a bath every other day, that was ok, that did not make you any less of a professional. Even if you had to apply your shaving crème with the bath attendant watching you closely.” – Kim Larsen