50 Jahre Bravo = 50 years of Bravo

Björn took part in this programme to celebrate German Magazine Bravo's 50th birthday sitting in a room often used by ABBA members to record interviews at Benny's Hotel Rival.

Björn talked about how Bravo photographer Wolfgang "Bubi" Heilemann was with ABBA all the time so there were always a lot of photos and reports about ABBA in Bravo. Of course they also mentioned Bravo's role in finding Frida's father, and Björn said that back then Benny had informed him that Frida's father was found.

Wolfgang "Bubi" Heilemann again told his story how he helped ABBA to invent the ABBA logo with the reversed B.

The one million dollar offer was mentioned - Björn said that the people in those concerts would have been bound to be disappointed if ABBA had done a tour with 100 concerts.

Later in the segment about Madonna they told the story of Hung Up again. Madonna wrote a letter to Benny & Björn and sent her assistant with a finished recording of Hung Up to Stockholm, and Björn knew after 20 seconds that the song was great, it was so well-produced and one of the catchiest things he had heard for a while, so they both said, "yes yes yes!".

The ABBA picture on the shelf behind Björn's right shoulder (there is an ABBA CD in every room of the hotel).

Thanks to Erik Menkens c/o ABBAMAIL (no longer online and Dario Brigmann.
YouTube link c/o BubiHeilemann