Eddy: Everyone had his own career on their own
before starting ABBA. What did you do then?
Björn: I was in a folk group. We we doing some Kingston Trio
stuff. And Benny was in a very famous rock group.
Benny: We had a top ten hit over here in Holland. That song was
called "Sunny Girl"
Eddy: Did you wrote that song?
Benny: Yeah, some eight years ago.
Eddy: You were already famous before starting ABBA.
Agnetha: Benny was already famous
Frida: Yeah... it is always Benny!
Eddy: How did you start together?
Björn: Benny and I met during a tour in Sweden and we thought we
could write together. And we did. And a few years later Agnetha found me!
Frida: Oh... did she?
Björn: She fell in love with me!
Agnetha: I thought it was you!
Björn: The same happened to Benny and Frida.
Benny: Oh yes?
Frida: Did you fall in love with me?
Benny: No, not me!
Björn: At that time we thought "Why don't we make a record
together along with the girls voices. It all went so well... and then we thought
"we start a band"
"Waterloo"
Eddy: Waterloo, what happened afterwards. When you became first at
the Eurovision Song Contest?
Benny: It is a big event. When you win the song contest you are
somebody!
Eddy: Did it change your private lives?
Benny: Yes, we have more work to do.
Björn: We travelled around the world, but I don't think that it
affected our lives that much. Because we have already worked together.
Eddy: You were already producers and artist. Do you have your own
company right now?
Benny: Not of our own, but together with the man who discovered
us.
Eddy: How long does that company exist? Since Waterloo or longer?
Benny: That company existed already about 16 years. But Björn and
I are part of it, because we put all our work in it.
Eddy: Benny, you are producing other artists too?
Benny: That's right.
Eddy: So you're doing everything!
Benny: I'm trying, at least. I have to do this, because you can't
earn enough in Sweden when you sing and write for your own group. You can't live
from that.
"Tropical Loveland"
Eddy: There is a family relation: Björn married with Agnetha and
Frida with Benny.
Frida: We are engaged.
Eddy: That's nearly the same. Are there many problems, I mean, because
I know that you and Agnetha have a little daugheter in Stockholm. Is it hard to
leave here alone?
Agnetha: In the beginning it was very difficult. When we won in
Brighton she was only one year old and she really missed us.
Eddy: Did you find a solution for this?
Björn: Yes... to stay at home!
Agnetha: We tried to explain it to her, but she is too young to
understand.
Eddy: Maybe she will understand in a few years time...When four humans
are working together, there will be some tensions. Do you see each other off
work? Because you are travelling and working together. Do you see each other
each and every day?
Benny: Not always.
Eddy: Do you visit each other or not?
Benny: Sometimes. But Björn and I work together at the company nearly
every day. We see each other very regularly!
"Rock Me"
Eddy: Thanks for being here. We hope to see you again real soon. If
it's not in Sweden than in Holland. Thank you very much!
ABBA: Thank you too!
"SOS"
Thanks to Anne Miepje for the translation
Thanks to Jozsef for the information