He also made TV portraits of famous people like Sir Paul McCartney, Andrea Bocelli, B.

King, Michael Persbrandt, Rod Stewart, Kronprins Haakon of Norway, Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú and Bernard Kouchner.

[citation needed] In the early 1980s he had a career as a pop singer issuing two singles and the album Gatelangs.

Already in 2008, Pedersen was saying that injections with unknown content were a part of the normal daily routines as a bicycle professional.

Pedersen tested positive for ephedrine at the 1981 Milk Race (Tour of Britain) and got a one-month suspension.