When i listen to Benny's piano album the most moving songs are the ones I didn't know from ABBA or Chess.... so it was clear that he is a composer on a journey... my Mum has been diagnosed with dementia 10 years ago. As it became worse and she felt frightened a lot, we discovered that the Piano album is calming her down, gives her comfort and joy. Every since, roughly 4 years ago, that record plays a central part in her life. Sometimes when she had a bad day or ended up in hospital, i played her the record and she would start to cry. So moved emotionally by that music of Benny. Especially Chess touches her deeply and her eyes become teary. But she forgets all evil and pain all angst not knowing exactly what happens to her... if ever she will pass, she's 87 now, we children agreed that songs of that album will be played at her funeral. This man, this record, his oevre was our biggest help over the last years to comfort our mum in times of trouble. Sometimes when she listens to the music, she waves to Benny imagining him sitting at the piano and throws him kissed and thanks him for the beautiful music. Thank you for the music
Even with subtitles and not speaking the language that was a great interview. Such honesty and directness but also class. Both Benny and his son seem like genuinely good people which is nice since he was imbued with so much talent and opportunity. ABBA came from a different time in some ways hard and rough and tumble but in other ways naive I think. They gave so many people so much pleasure and mixed their own culture with America’s and the worlds. I’m very grateful for them and their music. And their videos so many of which are just terrific.
Benny and Björn are musical geniuses. Not all marriages work and the music industry has its own pressures. I think both Frida and Agnetha are in a happy place now. Great interview by the way.
I love Benny, watching him rock and play the piano, then headbang. After all that he would smile the sweetest smile in the world. Now he comes on stage with his gorgeous son. Wow! What a treat! Ludwig is so handsome. He is also very talented, like his father. Benny, thank you for the joy you have brought to the world. Thank you ABBA! ❤️🌹❤️
@@11matt11 Seems like it, doesn't it? But I think it's also Björn and the girls. And the times. They've seen Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, George Michael and so many other artists just die and disappear, it's asking for being the exception to that rule; Why not reunite and why not make another album? The world does not care that they're old now.
@@11matt11 .....großes Dankeschön an Ludvig Du hast sicher alles versucht das ABBA noch malein Album gemacht hat .liebe Grüße aus Deutschland .....Thank you for the Music.....
I love seeing Benny and Bjorn's Names when I Watched the Videos of Mamma Mia 1 n 2 Premier Showing. Brilliant Project to include Hollywood Stars, even Tom Hanks attended both occasions in London
From Santa Rosa in Tokyo in 1972 to Brighton, Sydney, Glasgow and now Kilkenny...the super troupers have regaled us with the Ode to freedom in the time of the metaverse space of 2021...This 50 year fleeting voyage will now slow down andante andante and take a breather....I am sure the voyage will continue somehow...as long as the eagles, birds and bumblebees spread their wings, these two dancing queens and their kings will never lose their crown or spirit....thanks for showing us the noble way old friends do to appreciate the little things...Once you told us you were nothing special, infact maybe a bit of a bore, but when all is said and done... we could not have asked for more... It was our privilege and destiny, to have shared your history, an epic half century...from the glitz and glamour of that Eurovision night to Agnetha wearing the covid mask... you basked in the glory with dignity and humility...your next stage in this marvelous voyage is the remaining little step towards immortality....the gods had a notion; threw the dice and just like that took a chance on you....and you lent us your voice and let your music speak so beautifully....no doubt about it! Heaven help your hearts and we thank you once again...for the music voyage...and all the little things it brought to us!
It nice to hear all members from ABBA in Swedish (When I'm Use hear them English). I understand Swedish and Norwegian. I'm so happy they are back. I have been a fan since the 1970's. Hilsen fra Danmark.
I wrote lyrics for an ABBA song. I have the melodies they can use, or they can create their own. This song can close all of their shows and give a sendoff to all of their fans. I'd love a chance to share it with ABBA.
Benny Andersson has mined the raw ores of crude sound with his ingenious ability to form music into accomplished master pieces. Chess is composed of Neo Romantic movements, laced with chorals and modern arias. Andersson showed no inhibition in choosing voicings of instrumwnts; Benny utilized instruments of new 20th century state-of-art technologies. These instrumentation probed the slumbering decay of Romanic period forms, re-vitalizing the sonada with deepened involvements of modern 2oth century tones and textures. The lingering of 18th century instruments echos vigorously among the many compositions scored by Andersson over the years of Benny's practice of music; And, Benny Andersson continues to orchestrate - some composition being produced before: THE INK HAS DRIED [colliquial].
Actually, that combining of modern instruments (Synths, samples etc) with the classical elements is also reminding me a lot of what Vangelis has done with his music. With the big iconic warm String pads and Brass sounds that come from a similar Iconic Synth, the Yamaha CS-80 which shares a lot of it's architecture and sound with the Yamaha GX1 that Benny had. Chariots of Fire, Bladerunner intro etc. I feel both of them also write very "thematic" music that works very well for films or musicals... They even look similar with the beard-style and all!
There should be an ABBA movie, a story of how these fantastic 4 started from humble beginnings at Eurovision to their peak height of their careers to retirement to getting back together again after 40 years... I betcha this movie will be sellout. Just wondering which actors/actresses will portrayed these 4? 💕
they have enough money so that they can do what they really want. But they forget that they don't do new music for the money in the first place, they do it for the fans and for our world which needs good music again
@@bennyandersson-topic15 💖💖💖 it was really a special and great thing to see ABBA reunited and presenting new songs and album as I was too young during the ABBA time, but a long term fan 🎉 Thank you ALL and greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
I'm not sure that I would describe London or the United Kingdom as a "tax haven" even today. Yes, tax rates for the richest are lower than in Scandinavia (between 40% and 50%) but I would have thought Monaco (referenced in "Money, Money, Money" of course) etc. would be better. In the 1970s we had Scandinavian levels of taxation with the top rate at 83% with a 15% surcharge for income from share investments making a top rate of effectively 98% for some income. OUCH!!! That was done away with of course as did the Norwegians with their effective top rate of 105% (!!!) which obviously is a bad idea. Regarding Benny's comment about an Englishman not appreciating forests I can tell you that this Englishman certainly does and would love the idea of living in Scandinavia certainly for a while to see if it were to work out. People in the Nordic countries seem to be better educated and have a much better attitude towards their surroundings and environment and in Britain we have a large class of people who have a bad attitude towards such things with hooligan behaviour, leaving litter everywhere and a general disregard for things which they are unconcerned with but should be. I love Nordic scenery and also winter sports being a massive sports fan generally. There is much that this Englishman very much admires about the Nordic world, Abba being one of course!
I have seen all four interviews of the ABBA members. I noticed he is some kind of afraid to aşk question about ABBA. I think all four members don't want to talk about that time. Mayba bad.memories? İt is finished and done. But we as listeners of those songs still live the 70s and I like it too. We stuck in the 70s but the member don't, finish
I don’t think he’s afraid to ask about ABBA. The four members of ABBA have said everything there is to say about the band in the past four decades, and the Swedish viewers have heard and seen it all. It’s now more interesting to ask about their current lives and projects.
@@Brinta3 Agreed. When ABBA (the band) stopped, ABBA stopped. Everything that needed to be said about the band as been said. There's really nothing left. Imagine you did something 40 years ago and it's all anyone wanted to talk about. It's probably why Benny and Bjorn are so matter-of-fact about the business/money side of the ABBA legacy.
Too old and too much water under the bridge for any reunion. It's clear that it won't ever happen, even if, as here, he doesn't quite slam the door on it. Trying to get four people who don't need the money and who all divorced each other several decades ago, to feel the same way at the same time is a step too far.
@@anni-vonne2204 Though I personally preferred them as "masters of the scene". You know, in that old Abba song about going out to get laid... _"we've done it all before and now we're here to get some more; masters of the scene"_ ☺️
There is about as much chance of Abba getting back together as The Beatles getting back together....I would be happy with Dire Straits or Oasis these days.
@@rexuz2482 album or concert?....I've had a search but my google might be broken,it keeps saying they haven't performed together since early 80s, Either you're wrong or google is.
@@rexuz2482 they said similar also a few year back they might do some hologram type thing, it didn't happen, I will see it when I believe it, as of 3 p.m 3/11/20 they haven't performed together since the early 80s, Google was right.
He looks like most Swedish guys. Not everyone looks like their one parent - he might resembme his grandad more than Benny for example.who knows? Genetics are unpredictable.
Mamma Mia was written, directed, and produced by women. Hjalp Sokes cowritten by a women, Kristina starred a woman. Most of his hits were sung by women. The Voyage band has half women. BAO starred a women singer. He has women look after his personal management, a women assitant engineer.
Bjorn and Benny were never true men they were simply boys who left their wives in the moment Agnetha and Frida needed them most! Very sad story. I think most of ABBA fans are very disappointed in Bjorn and Benny.
Bullshit. You’re SO wrong in everything you say. They have remained friends through all these years and now they’re finally back as ABBA. Put on your clown shoes, clown 🤡🤡🤡
The way these people talk to each other is so awkward. Either that's how it is in their (Swedish) culture or the host lacks interviewing skills. Not every host is David Letterman.
Seriously? To me it seems like they have great rapport. Besides, as I understood from other interviews, the host speaks Norwegian with some specific Swedish words, and then the Andersons speak Swedish. Maybe that is what you pick up??🤔
Nordic people are very laidback! Not much that impress us! If Jesus, Allah or Buddha showed up any time soon.-or simultaniously!....-we would sit them down for a "-Swedish fika", and a chat! .... No biggie! 😎
When i listen to Benny's piano album the most moving songs are the ones I didn't know from ABBA or Chess.... so it was clear that he is a composer on a journey... my Mum has been diagnosed with dementia 10 years ago. As it became worse and she felt frightened a lot, we discovered that the Piano album is calming her down, gives her comfort and joy. Every since, roughly 4 years ago, that record plays a central part in her life. Sometimes when she had a bad day or ended up in hospital, i played her the record and she would start to cry. So moved emotionally by that music of Benny. Especially Chess touches her deeply and her eyes become teary. But she forgets all evil and pain all angst not knowing exactly what happens to her... if ever she will pass, she's 87 now, we children agreed that songs of that album will be played at her funeral. This man, this record, his oevre was our biggest help over the last years to comfort our mum in times of trouble. Sometimes when she listens to the music, she waves to Benny imagining him sitting at the piano and throws him kissed and thanks him for the beautiful music. Thank you for the music
Even with subtitles and not speaking the language that was a great interview. Such honesty and directness but also class. Both Benny and his son seem like genuinely good people which is nice since he was imbued with so much talent and opportunity. ABBA came from a different time in some ways hard and rough and tumble but in other ways naive I think. They gave so many people so much pleasure and mixed their own culture with America’s and the worlds. I’m very grateful for them and their music. And their videos so many of which are just terrific.
Thank you to Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus for the music and hit songs of ABBA, my favourite old school pop band from Stockholm, Sweden.
So sweet when his son is honest about his father and Benny still with his humour, no doubt that he inherited his father's talent. Great show anyway.
ABBA are now back together and I’m sure that Ludvig had a big part to play for it to happen. Benny finally listened from his son!
@@nilgor70 English isn’t my first language, I suppose you’re able to write a whole comment in a foreign language to yours without making any mistake?
Benny and Björn are musical geniuses. Not all marriages work and the music industry has its own pressures. I think both Frida and Agnetha are in a happy place now. Great interview by the way.
I love Benny, watching him rock and play the piano, then headbang. After all that he would smile the sweetest smile in the world. Now he comes on stage with his gorgeous son. Wow! What a treat! Ludwig is so handsome. He is also very talented, like his father. Benny, thank you for the joy you have brought to the world. Thank you ABBA! ❤️🌹❤️
Thank you for the music 🎶
I love that his Son is pushing him for a reunion. Great interview.
And I bet he carried on pushing, instrumental to the recordings in 2018.
@@Clavinovaman Nice
Ludvig is the real hero of ABBA getting back together.
@@11matt11 Seems like it, doesn't it? But I think it's also Björn and the girls. And the times. They've seen Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, George Michael and so many other artists just die and disappear, it's asking for being the exception to that rule; Why not reunite and why not make another album? The world does not care that they're old now.
@@11matt11 .....großes Dankeschön an Ludvig Du hast sicher alles versucht das ABBA noch malein Album gemacht hat .liebe Grüße aus Deutschland .....Thank you for the Music.....
*Grattis Benny på 70-års dagen!*
I love seeing Benny and Bjorn's Names when I Watched the Videos of Mamma Mia 1 n 2 Premier Showing. Brilliant Project to include Hollywood Stars, even Tom Hanks attended both occasions in London
great interview, thanks. Ludvig seems to be a nice person, kudos goes also to the father
Ludvig is the real hero of ABBA getting back together.
From Santa Rosa in Tokyo in 1972 to Brighton, Sydney, Glasgow and now Kilkenny...the super troupers have regaled us with the Ode to freedom in the time of the metaverse space of 2021...This 50 year fleeting voyage will now slow down andante andante and take a breather....I am sure the voyage will continue somehow...as long as the eagles, birds and bumblebees spread their wings, these two dancing queens and their kings will never lose their crown or spirit....thanks for showing us the noble way old friends do to appreciate the little things...Once you told us you were nothing special, infact maybe a bit of a bore, but when all is said and done... we could not have asked for more... It was our privilege and destiny, to have shared your history, an epic half century...from the glitz and glamour of that Eurovision night to Agnetha wearing the covid mask... you basked in the glory with dignity and humility...your next stage in this marvelous voyage is the remaining little step towards immortality....the gods had a notion; threw the dice and just like that took a chance on you....and you lent us your voice and let your music speak so beautifully....no doubt about it! Heaven help your hearts and we thank you once again...for the music voyage...and all the little things it brought to us!
It nice to hear all members from ABBA in Swedish (When I'm Use hear them English). I understand Swedish and Norwegian. I'm so happy they are back. I have been a fan since the 1970's. Hilsen fra Danmark.
Envy you. Avundsjuk. I understand Norwegian but Danish is impossible ! (Written danish is ok). I love you anyway 🥰
@@christinesalomonsson1082 so Benny's last name was pronounced "An-de- shon" or am I wrong?
@@jonhinson5701 close, but there is a rather hard r in there "An-de-Rshon"
This is a real treat, thank you for uploading this, especially for the subtitles.
The Pianist by ABBA & is my Group Favourite of ABBA with all my Sweetie A Kiss very strong my❤💕❤❤❤I Love very many ABBA🎤📺😚😙😘😍😗💋
Woow benny andersson.. Live long Iife...favorit me.👍 from indonesia 🙏🙏💙💙💙
Takk Fredrik !!!
I wrote lyrics for an ABBA song. I have the melodies they can use, or they can create their own. This song can close all of their shows and give a sendoff to all of their fans. I'd love a chance to share it with ABBA.
And now look - superb… 👏👏👏
Benny Andersson has mined the raw ores of crude sound with his ingenious ability to form music into accomplished master pieces. Chess is composed of Neo Romantic movements, laced with chorals and modern arias. Andersson showed no inhibition in choosing voicings of instrumwnts; Benny utilized instruments of new 20th century state-of-art technologies. These instrumentation probed the slumbering decay of Romanic period forms, re-vitalizing the sonada with deepened involvements of modern 2oth century tones and textures. The lingering of 18th century instruments echos vigorously among the many compositions scored by Andersson over the years of Benny's practice of music; And, Benny Andersson continues to orchestrate - some composition being produced before: THE INK HAS DRIED [colliquial].
Actually, that combining of modern instruments (Synths, samples etc) with the classical elements is also reminding me a lot of what Vangelis has done with his music.
With the big iconic warm String pads and Brass sounds that come from a similar Iconic Synth, the Yamaha CS-80 which shares a lot of it's architecture and sound with the Yamaha GX1 that Benny had. Chariots of Fire, Bladerunner intro etc.
I feel both of them also write very "thematic" music that works very well for films or musicals...
They even look similar with the beard-style and all!
Very good interview.
Thanks for your love and support I'm so happy to have a great fan like you
Grattis på födelsedagen Bennny!
Legend!
I wish with all my heart that the fab 4 ABBA would want to release more music after voyage.
There should be an ABBA movie, a story of how these fantastic 4 started from humble beginnings at Eurovision to their peak height of their careers to retirement to getting back together again after 40 years...
I betcha this movie will be sellout. Just wondering which actors/actresses will portrayed these 4? 💕
What a fantastic idea ! Emma Stone would make a great Frida. Both have this slightly naughty smile.
Хорош мужик...
That huge sum of money they were offered was one BILLION US dollars.
I guess they have standard's and cannot sell out as some artist's .
they have enough money so that they can do what they really want. But they forget that they don't do new music for the money in the first place, they do it for the fans and for our world which needs good music again
Benny is on par w/Jon Lord and Ray Manzarek.
I'll trust Ludvig to do his best to convince his father a bit...for ABBA...:-) I think he found good words to express his feelings for ABBA...
And he succeeded!
@@JF-sh2sm to read this after a few years.... it is just a great feeling 👍💚❤️🍀
Thanks for your love and support I'm so happy to have a great fan like you
@@bennyandersson-topic15 💖💖💖 it was really a special and great thing to see ABBA reunited and presenting new songs and album as I was too young during the ABBA time, but a long term fan 🎉
Thank you ALL and greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
Have you been to any of my concert?
Can you maybe add some subtitles?
I'm not sure that I would describe London or the United Kingdom as a "tax haven" even today. Yes, tax rates for the richest are lower than in Scandinavia (between 40% and 50%) but I would have thought Monaco (referenced in "Money, Money, Money" of course) etc. would be better. In the 1970s we had Scandinavian levels of taxation with the top rate at 83% with a 15% surcharge for income from share investments making a top rate of effectively 98% for some income. OUCH!!! That was done away with of course as did the Norwegians with their effective top rate of 105% (!!!) which obviously is a bad idea. Regarding Benny's comment about an Englishman not appreciating forests I can tell you that this Englishman certainly does and would love the idea of living in Scandinavia certainly for a while to see if it were to work out. People in the Nordic countries seem to be better educated and have a much better attitude towards their surroundings and environment and in Britain we have a large class of people who have a bad attitude towards such things with hooligan behaviour, leaving litter everywhere and a general disregard for things which they are unconcerned with but should be. I love Nordic scenery and also winter sports being a massive sports fan generally. There is much that this Englishman very much admires about the Nordic world, Abba being one of course!
10:55: I bet Ludvig is delighted about the new ABBA songs.
He’s even the producer for the ABBA Voyage concert!
Hej Benny Andersson! En helsning från Stickan Andersson dotter i Sverige!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I have seen all four interviews of the ABBA members. I noticed he is some kind of afraid to aşk question about ABBA. I think all four members don't want to talk about that time. Mayba bad.memories? İt is finished and done. But we as listeners of those songs still live the 70s and I like it too. We stuck in the 70s but the member don't, finish
I don’t think he’s afraid to ask about ABBA. The four members of ABBA have said everything there is to say about the band in the past four decades, and the Swedish viewers have heard and seen it all. It’s now more interesting to ask about their current lives and projects.
@@Brinta3 Agreed. When ABBA (the band) stopped, ABBA stopped. Everything that needed to be said about the band as been said. There's really nothing left. Imagine you did something 40 years ago and it's all anyone wanted to talk about. It's probably why Benny and Bjorn are so matter-of-fact about the business/money side of the ABBA legacy.
Where are the English subtitles?
You have to put it on of course🤔👆
Why do the subtitles say "anyways" when it should be "anyway". :/
"anyways" is a more informal way to say "anyway."
Too old and too much water under the bridge for any reunion. It's clear that it won't ever happen, even if, as here, he doesn't quite slam the door on it. Trying to get four people who don't need the money and who all divorced each other several decades ago, to feel the same way at the same time is a step too far.
4 months later ABBA reunites hahaha
Anni-Frid literally said: “... never say never ...”. It seems to be happening now, with a planned release in 2021, so there you go❣️🎼😉
*ahem* 2021 calling
And they are back now ❤️💚❤️💚 masters of the universe 🍀🍀🍀
@@anni-vonne2204 Though I personally preferred them as "masters of the scene". You know, in that old Abba song about going out to get laid... _"we've done it all before and now we're here to get some more; masters of the scene"_ ☺️
does he speak norweigen or swedish?
The interviewer speaks Norwegian and Björn and his son speak Swedish.
Mycenaea I thought he's Benny andersson
@@johnbriancatedrilla4028 yes it's Benny
@@nilswestman4013 oh thank you but the other one called him Bjorn that confuse me when mycenaea said that
Du med Bjørn
Ludwig doesn’t look like Benny
He looks like his mom, Benny's wife.
@@apollolancer78 ok
@@Tawadeb Really, Ludwig is a spitting image of Mona, go google her face. 😇
@@apollolancer78 sure
El hijo se parece mas a su madre no salio favorecido de cara
10:00 Skavlan tänker typ "Vilka fan e de?! 😥"
i know is something going on...
There is about as much chance of Abba getting back together as The Beatles getting back together....I would be happy with Dire Straits or Oasis these days.
You may be wrong🤞🏼
Lmao, they have already reunited now so...
@@rexuz2482 album or concert?....I've had a search but my google might be broken,it keeps saying they haven't performed together since early 80s, Either you're wrong or google is.
@@glasshalffull8471 They announced months ago that they have reunited and gone back to the studio to do music and release songs in 2021.
@@rexuz2482 they said similar also a few year back they might do some hologram type thing, it didn't happen, I will see it when I believe it, as of 3 p.m 3/11/20 they haven't performed together since the early 80s, Google was right.
Is it just me or does Benny's son look like he could have Agnetha's genes? What really happened there?!?
He looks like most Swedish guys. Not everyone looks like their one parent - he might resembme his grandad more than Benny for example.who knows? Genetics are unpredictable.
Ludvig looks just like his mother Mona. The scoundrel got Mona pregnant and left Frida for her. I know it isn't Ludvigs fault but Benny really
08:37 The "feminist" Benny has 20 men in his band...
Mamma Mia was written, directed, and produced by women. Hjalp Sokes cowritten by a women, Kristina starred a woman. Most of his hits were sung by women. The Voyage band has half women. BAO starred a women singer. He has women look after his personal management, a women assitant engineer.
He has not aged very well at all....
Bjorn and Benny were never true men they were simply boys who left their wives in the moment Agnetha and Frida needed them most! Very sad story. I think most of ABBA fans are very disappointed in Bjorn and Benny.
Bullshit. You’re SO wrong in everything you say. They have remained friends through all these years and now they’re finally back as ABBA. Put on your clown shoes, clown 🤡🤡🤡
You don’t know shit, it’s their private life.
The way these people talk to each other is so awkward. Either that's how it is in their (Swedish) culture or the host lacks interviewing skills. Not every host is David Letterman.
Seriously? To me it seems like they have great rapport. Besides, as I understood from other interviews, the host speaks Norwegian with some specific Swedish words, and then the Andersons speak Swedish. Maybe that is what you pick up??🤔
Nordic people are very laidback!
Not much that impress us!
If Jesus, Allah or Buddha showed up any time soon.-or simultaniously!....-we would sit them down for a "-Swedish fika", and a chat!
....
No biggie!
😎
Benny, very unlikable character.
Why?