The ABBA Scrapbook

Let me show you that I know how

2008-07-20T20:10:00.000+02:00

10!

Yes it's 10 times ABBA in black and white. . .

(oh and by the way tomorrow I'll be leaving for Sweden so see you in two weeks)

This pic really focuses on the shorts doesn't it? Like, hey look at those shorts but what is that woman doing there? ;-)
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Although without the men this one is 100% ABBA
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I bet they never actually stood like this.

watch out for Benny's piano. Not!

I'm not so charming and you're not so groovy...

Hurray, it's another windy rainy airport!

before....

and during the perm

Frida clearly seducing....who?

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It's the eighties: she's wearing a bra!

Förr kallade du mej din egen tjej, fru Pettersson

2008-07-19T17:46:00.001+02:00

Frida dances the tango!
Or is it something else she did with her husband to be, mr. Pettersson, a long time ago when he still called her his girl and he promised her the moon and the stars....
Although things didn't work out as she wanted she still loves him. Don't you just love happy endings?

One of my favourite Frida performances, mmmmm I love it when she sounds so sarcatic, sweet, sexy, mature, dissapointed :-) For those who don't understand Swedish, watch carefully and you will learn a few words!

It’s only natural

2008-07-14T23:58:00.000+02:00

Watch out for:

that flimsy stage they are standing on...

her cheeky smile...

both wear scarves...

Frida holding 12 things with one hand...

Agnetha's hand.

Wasn’t it worth it then?

2008-07-11T22:10:00.000+02:00

Seriously Frida Friday

...det finns ju relativt få ställen i Sverige där det forskas inom medicinsk informatik eller hälsoinformatik och för att kunna erbjuda en bra utbildning behövs mycket resurser.Och med den nationella it-strategin och alla projekt kring den är det viktigt att folk ute i vården är förberedda...

sometimes she starts dreaming right in the middle of a press conference

By 2008 I will have have found the answer to wrinkly foreheads, she smiled knowingly

ah cumulonimbus, it's going to rain today

Hmmm wait a minute... in physics, mass–energy equivalence is the concept that any mass has an associated energy and vice versa. In special relativity this relationship is expressed using the mass–energy equivalence formula
where
E = energy,
m = mass,
c = the speed of light in a vacuum,
and the superscript 2 indicates the squaring of the c.

Why didn't I think of that before?!

"There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. Such was the impression made on Raskolnikov by the person sitting a little distance from him, who looked like a retired clerk. The young man often recalled his impression afterwards, and even ascribed it to presentiment."

nothing beats good old Dostoyevsky before a show

Afraid of a love affair

2008-07-08T11:40:00.000+02:00

So you survived the 4th of July? I mean the ABBA 4th of July? Good.

I did too.

But how about B,A,A &B? What did they think about it? It wasn't that scary was it.

A&A:like they there never was a "break" at all!

. Party animal

Was it love or was it show?

So she has a new lover....

My, my, just how much I’ve missed you

2008-07-04T21:28:00.000+02:00

My wish came true!

(but who's that other lady???? ;-)

Was it the sunny weather, the aquavit, that movie maybe?

Yesterday I wrote : "Can I ask for an Agnetha and Frida picture?"

I never would have thought there would be Agnetha and Frida (and Meryl) pictures all over the place! And even some of all former ABBA members in ONE frame. Not next to each other that's too much to ask for of course.

Blue since the day we parted

2008-07-03T23:24:00.000+02:00

All serious ABBA fans are waiting for the Mamma Mia premiere in Stockholm tomorrow.

Not because of the movie but because ALL 4 will be there. Unless Benny breaks his leg or Agnetha gets stuck in a traffic jam between Ekerö and Stockholm City. Perhaps Frida suddenly gets these terrible allergic reactions whenever she hears the words Mamma Mia and Björn oversleeps! Horror!

The four people that once where ABBA:

no traffic jams when you go by helicopter(!)

set 2 alarm clocks, no, make it three

no horseriding in the snow for you mister

just imagen you are on Bali, oh they have Mamma Mia there, in Timbuctu, no, on Mars. Imagine you're on Mars and there is total silence and then watch a Rammstein in concert DVD.

Sure, they will never ever pose like this again. How do they manage to keep away from each other on a premiere night? They're like four different people who have nothing to do with each other...

Can I ask for an Agnetha and Frida picture?

Will I ever learn

2008-07-02T22:39:00.000+02:00

Ohoho Mamma Mia...

I have never really cared for musicals. In fact I can't stand musicals. Sure Kristina and Chess have some great songs, but if it wasn't for B&B, I would never have heard them in the first place.

Mamma Mia only has good songs (d'oh) and I admit I really enjoyed the show. No kidding! And now there's this movie. I'll have to see it of course otherwise people may think I'm not an ABBA fan anymore.

So, from Mamma Mia -The Movie to Mamma Mia - The Movie premiere in London last Monday. She looked a million Euros - again. Mrs. Frida Reuss.

In another time (1981), in another place (Stockholm) she sang my favourite ABBA song "Should I laugh or cry".

The gods may throw a dice

2008-06-29T19:53:00.000+02:00

Le winnèr tèkzit alll!

can we leave those gold discs over here?

while Agnetha was already full after one tiny cup cake Benny could go on and on and on...

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the downside : posing with reporters from obscure magazines and wearing ugly t-shirts.

all quatre zougezzer en France

One more look and I forget everything

2008-06-26T21:53:00.000+02:00

Look at it this way...
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Look up
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look eh...at the bottom(s)

no, the other way Björn!

look veeeeery carefully

ah look at the doggie, is he a good doggie? Yes he is a good doggie. What a beautiful doggie you are. Yes yes you like that doggie? Yes doggie likes that. You like uncle Benny doggie? He is a sweet uncle Benny. Give uncle Benny a kiss. Aunty Frida can give uncle Benny a kiss! Yes! You like ABBA music doggie? Yes doggie likes ABBA music! Issie woofie woofie alone in the snow? Is doggie alone in the snow? Doggie likes skiing? ...............................................................

See that girl, watch that scene

2008-06-24T13:24:00.001+02:00

Fridalicious!!!!

Fridalicious? She hasn't got a clue...

but her belly button has!

and her smile...

and her VOICE!

and I bet Björn does too!

Now we’d better hurry

2008-06-19T20:28:00.000+02:00

Hush hush hush!

Bonnie is in a hurry...

and Benny in a furry!

Frida headphones

Agnetha as Agnetha

interesting top

interesting hair

Gonna bring you some light

2008-06-15T20:16:00.000+02:00

There are basically three different kind of photographs:

1. the promotional picture

2. the concert/show photo

3. the "private" picture

+ of course every photograph that doesn't fit in one of those categories!

the promo

in concert

in private, well not really cause she knew Anders Hansers was around to take pictures

outdoor casual picture that could be used as a promotional photograph

outdoor casual on business pushing some modelling clay thing picture that was used later in many magazines as a promo picture

But I will stay here among my coconuts

2008-06-13T23:33:00.002+02:00

Soccer. Football. Whatever. I don't like it even if the Dutch team seems to be very good this year.

5 pictures of ABBA being not sporty

We can't play soccer. It's the ice cream time d'oh!

hmmm....it looks however, as if Agnetha is ready to kick Frida

They're not watching... oh no...! Ah, it's Eurovision.

Has anyone ever seen her rollerskating on those rollerskates. Maybe nobody told her what they were actually made for.

It the ABBA dick, excuse me, ABBA Dick again. ABBA Dick and Agnetha do not look as if they are going to a soccer match.

Don’t you see, can’t you feel it

2008-06-11T14:09:00.001+02:00

Silly little things that attract my attention....

I can't help but notice this sheet of paper Frida is (still) sitting on.

She can't even play the guitar!

It's not the formula 1 racing-car I'm interested in but that cool shirt Björn and unknown man are wearing. Now that's what one would call a collectors item!

Nothing in particular actually. Just a very happy and sunny picture :-)

She must really really love him, oh sigh!

Don’t look too deep into those angeleyes

2008-06-09T16:25:00.000+02:00

Sunglasses!

You can't live without them, especially when you are a female celebrity (celebreteuse).

Sunglasses :

*are fashionable

*make you look cool

*hide tired and puffy eyes fom photographers.

*protect your eyes

*etc etc...

Ofcouse she needed these ice blue pair of glasses. The Alps: snow blindness, très dangerous!

You see, there was no need for men to be fashionable, cool etc. At least not in the 70s.

This is clearly a fashion statement by Agnetha.

Hmmm....reading glasses?

The look of 1974

To Las Vegas or Monaco

2008-06-07T23:31:00.000+02:00

Frida Friday and the 1979 tour.

(and only the white outfit!)

Money, money...

money!

at this point she quit smoking

but the show must go on

really, this big!

To make such a lot of money

2008-06-06T12:28:00.000+02:00

Super stars!

As a superstar, you're supposed to look as fresh and sexy as this

Yeah, they can look like they have an attitude if they want to!

Only real stars can wear white and gold...

and get away with it.

Only super stars can stand quite casually in front of some giant cubes and actually look like stars.

Han som älskar mig

2008-06-03T21:03:00.000+02:00

Alla mina bästa år (mix adagio instrumental)

If you are not into soppy girl stuff then don't watch my latest video. If you like Frida, then please do.
According to my son (14) it was way too emo, too much, too whatever. I like it.

Knows the way to diddle

2008-06-03T10:23:00.000+02:00

As some of you may know, yesterday great fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent died. It's not that I'm such a big Yves adept, apart from some make up and Opium perfume no way I could afford his clothes but I suddenly was reminded of a scarf that Benny used to wear a lot...

(Thinking of that scarf and YSL, I guess it was Frida who was into this particular designer. YSL was the 'inventor' of the see-through blouses and guess who loved to wear sheer clothes?)

From the vaults of the old ABBA magazines:

See: they are married. Frida with her white gold ring with 12 diamonds, Benny and his plain gold ring. He wasn't a showy person.

" They are usually very expensive, that's why I only have a scarf"

Yeah sure!

Please surrender

2008-06-01T21:13:00.000+02:00

Frida just luuuuuuurves horses!

Björn has a VERY big aura

Who threw that big balloon?

Benny is the man!

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Hallo!