Brian Damage
07-10-2009, 10:10 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1198669/How-Benny-Bjorn-Abbas-bearded-wonder-Mamma-Mia-Meryl-Streep-chances-reunion.html
Benny Andersson is bemused by the endless appeal of Abba. Boosted by the stage and screen versions of the musical Mamma Mia!, the Swedish group are, arguably, bigger now than they were in their stack-heeled Seventies' heyday.
They have sold 380million albums around the world and seen songs like The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen embraced enthusiastically by a new generation.
But, as he sits by a grand piano in his small studio on the Stockholm waterfront, the 62-year-old grandfather of five admits to being nonplussed by the ongoing popularity of a group who won Eurovision in 1974 and last recorded together in 1982.
'It's truly amazing, and I don't know why it has happened,' he says. 'I suppose there might be a little quality in one or two of the songs, but I don't understand how we have kept on being successful to such an extent.
'I'm obviously happy about it, but I honestly don't get it.'
Benny Andersson is bemused by the endless appeal of Abba. Boosted by the stage and screen versions of the musical Mamma Mia!, the Swedish group are, arguably, bigger now than they were in their stack-heeled Seventies' heyday.
They have sold 380million albums around the world and seen songs like The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen embraced enthusiastically by a new generation.
But, as he sits by a grand piano in his small studio on the Stockholm waterfront, the 62-year-old grandfather of five admits to being nonplussed by the ongoing popularity of a group who won Eurovision in 1974 and last recorded together in 1982.
'It's truly amazing, and I don't know why it has happened,' he says. 'I suppose there might be a little quality in one or two of the songs, but I don't understand how we have kept on being successful to such an extent.
'I'm obviously happy about it, but I honestly don't get it.'