Stuðmenn were founded in school, at "Menntaskólinn Hamrahlið" in Reykjavik. Their debut album "Sumar á Sýrlandi" in ´75 became an instant success on the market and critics cheered the band frenetically as the milestone of Icelandic pop music. Their music combined high-flyingly merry and higgledy-piggledy varied songs, all with a twist, reflecting icelandic characteristics and changing society by collected tunes and true icelandic lyrics.