ABBA - DANCING QUEEN ?STEREO?

Posted on September 30, 2008
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Dear,Mr.Ola Brunkert.
I thank you for your great drums.
I love your technique.
forever.

MADRID, Spain (AP) — A former drummer for the Swedish pop band ABBA was found dead with cuts to his neck in the garden of his house on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Police said Monday an autopsy showed it was an accident.

A neighbor found the body of 62-year-old Ola Brunkert on Sunday evening at his house in a coastal area outside the eastern town of Arta, a Civil Guard spokesman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

He said an autopsy was carried out and confirmed initial investigations. “It was an accident,” he said.

The spokesman said Brunkert hit his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself in the neck. He managed to wrap a towel around his neck and left the house to seek help, but collapsed in the garden.

Brunkert lived in the coastal apartment complex of Betlem in the municipality of Arta, in the eastern part of Mallorca.

Brunkert had lived in Arta for around 20 years. His wife, Inger. died less than a year ago, an Arta municipal official told the AP. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to discuss the case.

ABBA band member Benny Anderson told Swedish daily Expressen he was sad to hear of the drummer’s death. “It is tragic,” he said.

Band member Bjorn Ulvaeus added that Brunkert had been “one of the best.”

“I remember him as a good friend when we worked together in the mid-1970s. He was a very creative musician who contributed a lot when we toured together and worked in the studio,” Ulvaeus told Expressen.

According to ABBA’s official Web site, Brunkert and bass player Rutger Gunnarsson were the only musicians to appear on all ABBA albums.

Brunkert first played with ABBA on the group’s first single, “People Need Love,” and toured with the band in 1977, 1979 and 1980.

He had been a jazz drummer and a member of the blues band Slim’s Blues Gang, before joining pop group Science Poption in the mid-1960s.

ABBA, with the four regular members Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Ulvaeus and Andersson, was one of the world’s most successful bands, with album sales of more than 370 million. The group has not performed together since 1982, but continues to sell nearly 3 million records a year.

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25 Responses to “ABBA - DANCING QUEEN ?STEREO?”

  1. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    Beautiful song…

  2. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    funny you should say that.
    Led Zeppelin was actually the first foreign band to record in ABBAs very own state-of-the-art recording studio!
    They spent 2 weeks there in November 1978, recording tracks for their “In through the backdoor” album.

  3. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    i love it!

  4. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    one of the best songs ever existed

  5. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    fav abba song!!

  6. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    this was uploaded on my birthday :D

  7. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    shania ripped this off for cest la vie

  8. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    Gooooood music! thats a good band !

  9. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    loves loves ABBA

  10. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    i heart this song ^_^

    Lots Of Love
    Tiff
    xXx

  11. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    ABBA, is God’s (Or whoever is up there) gift to music. Period.

  12. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    If this is the music they play in Hell, sign me up.

  13. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    Well don’t generalize. I’m a girl and I must say I personally am dismayed at the way some other girls I know treat their boyfriends. It’s as if they didn’t love them at all? I’ve lost all belief in romance between men and women… I’m more of a girl-lovin’ chick but I find it sad that the opposite sexes are dividing. Dads today have no backbone it is quite pathetic I must say, but women are bitchier now because of the way society evolved in to COMPETING. They are nasty because of competition.

  14. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    ! LUV D!5 5ON9

  15. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    This song is an all-time great. It will be a bookmark to the 70’s for all time.

  16. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    i’m not much interested in comparing ABBA to the Beatles, and such, but rather, i would say: DAMN, they were GOOD. 10splitter says it RIGHT: “They sing like angels…:)” Good-call, 10splitter!

  17. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    yea your right they were a great group, there will never ever be another ABBA

  18. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    ABBA stees great even if they are slipt up!!
    <3

  19. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    ABBA = A LEGEND!!! :D

  20. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    ABBA rawks!!!!

  21. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    THE BEST SONG>>>>
    I lov sweden .

  22. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    Toto je ta tretia najlepsia pesnicka aku som kedy pocul.

  23. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    24/09/08 Right lets put thing’s in perspective here!Or rather statistics perspective?
    The official uk top 40 album chat consists of??
    Artists
    ABBA=gold greatest hit’s(just of No1 pos)
    ABBA=18 HIT’S
    ABBA=more ABBA GOLD
    elvis=zero
    ledzeppelin=zero
    BEATLESS=ZERO!!
    Well it look’s ABBA are the winner’s
    “the winners take it all the loser’s standing small”And after 30 years!! ps cheesy rock hall of fame?!?!? These ABBA have too much CLASS for that toilet paper.KEEP ROCKING ABBA…….

  24. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    They sing like angels… :)

  25. Anonymous on September 30th, 2008 11:28 pm

    They both look hot!

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