Interview 1:
Björn: Well, I don't think there's really prescription. You just have to
be very, very careful so that you don't copy the hit before. Like, say we would
have copied "Waterloo". Then we would have been finished in one or two years.
Benny: That's very American, I think. There's a lot of groups or artists
copying their first hit, knowing that they're following, I mean, the spin-off.
Coming after that will still sell their record, whatever it is. So they try to
make it as similar as possible. I think that's very dangerous.
Björn: You have to change all the time.
Interview 2:
Benny: What's yours?
Frida: If you're asking me? Yes. I like to sing, naturally. Of course I do.
And I like very much to dance. And to be on stage.
Interviewer: And Benny?
Benny: Well, it's different because, I think, the most inspiring thing about
all this, we are doing, is that to be in it from the beginning. From the
song, from the melody. And the recording, the arrangement. The production.
Even the marketing. As we are doing. Then followed it up with being on
stage. The promotion and all that. That's fantastic.
Interviewer: How about you two?
Agnetha: I like the recording very much. And sometimes to stand on a stage.
But not always.
Björn: And for me, I think, I agree with Benny. It's fascinating to have
total control. So that every phase of it. You're in it.
Interview 3:
Frida: Benny and I are engaged. And Björn and Anna are married.
Interviewer: And where do you live?
ABBA: Stockholm.
Interviewer: In Stockholm. Close to each other? In the same house?
Frida: No, no
Benny: Not the same house.
Agnetha: Gottseidank. ("Thank God" in German)
Björn: We share a flat. One room and a kitchen. (Everybody laughs)
Interview 4:
Interviewer: Where do you get the ideas from?
Björn: We just sit down and work. As far as writing is concerned. We sit
down with piano and guitar and we start working.
Interviewer: But what does it start with. With the text or with music?
Benny: With the music. Always with the music.
Interviewer: Always with the music. And who writes the music?
Frida: Björn and Benny writes the music.
Interviewer: And who writes the text?
Frida: It's our manager called Stikkan
Anderson.
Interviewer: And what do the girls do in this whole thing?
Agnetha: Nothing. (Everybody laughs)
Benny: They do the rest.
Interviewer: They do the rest. They do the singing but how about
arrangements?
Benny: : Well, some of the vocal arrangements and all that in the studio,
yes.
We work very close together.
Interviewer: How does the choreography?
Frida: We have a teacher. He is called Graham Tate. He has been working
with
us since we started the group.