Other factoids

Other Abba things you may have not known.

1) Frida's father was a Nazi who, as part of an official Nazi program, impregnated a young gal in Norway where he was stationed. Frida believed her father to be dead, but a relative of the Nazi (an ABBA fan) recognized the name of the father and matched up the dates that the relative was in Norway, and coordinated a meeting between Frida and father sometime in the '80s.

2) Frida's daughter married an American from (I think) Massachusetts and died in a car accident a year or two before her husband to the count died. Word was out that she was considering making another album after her fantastic Djupa Andetag, but after their deaths, she decided not to.

2B) Frida is officially a princess, having married Ruzzo Ruess, the aforementioned guy. I thought he was a count, but if one becomes a princess by marriage, then the marry-e has to be a prince, right?

3) Agnetha had an affair with a Dutch man who moved to Sweden to pursue her. She broke it off with him after a time and he began stalking her to the point where she had to get a restraining order against him. He persisted. The Swedish police broke into his house and discovered letters to her and from her, and some weird things like two box turtles, a box of saltines and some beer. Otherwise the house was unfurnished. He was deported. She had to go to court. She was very embarrassed. She thinks she is normal.

4) Bjorn's wife Lena, who looks so much like Agnetha, has a terminal illness.

5) Benny Andersson's son, the son with Mona who replaced Frida and thereby caused the excellent but tragic album "I Know There's Something Going On" to be made, this son is a musician also. Not a very good one.