Stig Anderson
ABBA's manager. The genius behind ABBA. Responsible for making ABBA happen. Known as the 5th member of ABBA. He died in 1997.
Görel Hanser
Görel Hanser (née Johnsen) - Stig Anderson's secretary/personal assistant at Polar Music. Responsible for ABBA throughout the 70's, was the major liaison with the press, record companies, writer of press releases etc. Certainly the most important person behind ABBA after Stig. Became Vice President of Polar Music International. Today, she has her own company co-located with Benny's Mono Music. Görel's role with the former members of ABBA is more formidable today than ever before. Görel represents Benny, Björn and Frida. Michael 'Micke' Tretow
ABBA's sound engineer. Played a major role in developing ABBA's unique recorded sound. Played the major role in ensuring ABBA's live recordings were always mutilated before release. Cross (very cross) reference: CD 'ABBA LIVE'. Rune Söderqvist
Design genius behind the ABBA logo and ABBA's unique and classy album and single covers. Not responsible for the abortions committed as 'graphic design' by Polygram/Universal Music on the ABBA catalogue in the 1990s. Owe Sandström
ABBA's super camp, super fabulous costume designer. Thomas Johansson
Owner of EMA-Telstar, the company that organised ABBA's concert tours. Personal friend to the members of ABBA. All members of ABBA attended his 50th Birthday party in 1998 - the first time they had been together publicly since 1986. Anders Hanser
ABBA's official photographer from 1979 onwards. Married Görel Johnsen. Co-author of the recent book Från ABBA till Mamma Mia! John Spalding
A Vice President of Polar Music International. Friend and confidant of ABBA's manager Stig Anderson. His company Bocu Music was ABBA's UK sheet music publisher. Josefin Nilsson
Swedish singer who had an album written for her by Björn and Benny, and produced by Benny. It was released in 1993 and entitled 'Shapes'. Also in group 'Ainbusk' - Benny wrote their big Swedish hit 'Lassie'. Carl Magnus Palm
Writer of the ABBA bible - The Complete Recording Sessions. This book is generally regarded by fans as THE definitive ABBA book. Recently authored the definitive ABBA picture bible, Från ABBA till Mamma Mia! with Anders Hanser. The Guru of ABBA fandom. One More Time
Swedish band led by Benny's son Peter. Mildly successful, they produced beautiful music with limited success. Nanne Grönvall was in the group also, and has gone solo - having a huge hit in Sweden with Avundsjuk. Hans Fredriksson
Frida's son. Co-wrote That's Tough, the B-side to her 1984 Shine single. Ratata
Swedish duo who Frida duetted with on their 1987 single, As Long As I Have You (recorded in Swedish and English) Helen Sjöholm
Stars as Kristina in Björn and Benny's mega-epic Kristina från Duvemåla Peter Jöback
Sexy Swedish singer stars as Robert in Björn & Benny's lavish musical, Kristina från Duvemåla. Björn wrote a Swedish lyric to 'Pity The Child' for Peter's solo album. Ted Gärdestad
Swedish singer produced by Benny and Björn on Polar throughout the 70's and is on the 'ABBA In Switzerland' television special. Died in 1997. John Tobler
Once worked for a record company that had something to do with ABBA in the UK. Has parlayed this tenuous connection into a profitable career writing highly inaccurate books and sleeve notes for ABBA releases. Wrote ABBA - For The Record in 1980, and it morphed into ABBA Gold in 1992. This man should never have been part of the ABBA world. Tomas Ledin
Polar Music recording artist who sang backing vocals on ABBA's 1979 World Tour. Sang his own song 'Not Bad At All' during each concert with Agnetha and Frida as backing vocalists. In 1982 he duetted with Agnetha on Never Again. Married Stig Anderson's daughter, Marie Anderson - now Marie Ledin. Tomas owns Polar Music Studios. Marie Ledin
Stig Anderson's daughter - worked on publicity and promotion at Polar Music. Now owns Anderson Records who released Frida's 1996 masterpiece, Djupa Andetag. Linda Ulvaeus
Daughter of Agnetha & Björn. Featured in 'I Have A Dream' live clip. Recorded a Christmas album in 1980 with Agnetha. Recently had a minor part in Björn and Benny's masterpiece, Kristina Från Duvemåla. Lise-Lotte Casper
Frida's daughter with Ragnar Fredriksson. Killed in a car accident in the USA in January 1998. Ola Håkansson
Lead singer of group Secret Service. Duetted with Agnetha in 1986 on two songs - The Way You Are and Fly Like The Eagle. Currently working for the record company behind A*Teens. A*Teens
Fabulous young Swedish group performing covers of ABBA songs. Huge success in Sweden with their album 'THE ABBA GENERATION'. Great kids, classy act. Disliked by some ABBA fans who have no taste. feedback on this page: feedback@abbamail.com Thanks to Trent Nickson | 
