Accordian wrestling – squeezy does it

In the 40s and 50s, accordian wrestling was huge in Finland. Meet the man who's bringing it hereKimmo Pohjonen did not like playing the accordion when he was a child in the 1970s. "Accordion players were really uncool," he tells me at his studio in Helsinki. "I didn't dare tell my friends. I was so ashamed because it was only old guys who played."Pohjonen is now an extremely cool 47-year-old with conical hair, who has earned the nickname "the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion". He was born in Viiala...

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