Showing posts with label Agnetha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agnetha. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Four individuals

The pictures below are part of a very well-known ABBA photo shoot. The group members look specially nice and elegant in it, and - what is even more curious - there are lots of individual shots of them. Since those individual pictures are the ones I like most, I'm posting here my favorites of this sort. Enjoy!  

Frida and her classic beauty

Benny looking very serious 
Or would it be his "boy charm", as Frida used to say?

Agnetha using her seductiveness as usual

Björn with an indefinite expression, which seems worried and absent-minded at the same time

Friday, August 5, 2011

It's ABBA, babies!

Who doesn't like babies' pictures? They are sweet, smiling and, when they have plump cheeks and feet, they are simply irresistible! When we think about ABBA members as babies, then, we do have a great photo album.

Baby Frida was only 5 months old at that time...

Here she was a year and a half old
She was already so incredibly cute, don't you think?

Probably frightened by the photographer here...

When I saw this picture for the very first time I could only think:
"Awww, how CUTE Benny was!"

I think Benny makes women falling in love with him since he was a baby...

I got really crazy when I saw this one...
Smiley

Posing for the picture with his cute younger sister, Eva-Lis

Agnetha's biting her little fat hand!



Pretty Agnetha playing among some chickens

Baby Björn looking like he is going to cry... 
I'm not sure if there are more Björn's pictures as a baby available to us, but, if they exist, unfortunately I don't know them

Friday, July 29, 2011

Sunglasses

Lots of pictures show us Frida and Agnetha's passion for sunglasses. Yes, I really think ABBA girls - especially Agnetha - had a kind of passion for that accessories and, sometimes, their sunglasses really made them even more beautiful than they already were. 

 Frida is stunningly gorgeous here with these ones - plus the scarf!

Agnetha and her big sunglasses

 Stunning!

An absent-minded air is giving a charming look for Anna here...

Monday, July 25, 2011

She only thinks about it

I've noticed Agnetha was really obsessed with makeup when she was younger - maybe she is even nowadays, I don't know. She liked wearing lipstick and blush, and had a special taste for (light blue) eye shadows. No wonder Björn said on ABBA - The Movie that his wife was wearing five pounds of makeup before a concert...

A little of face powder before some performance...

... and a little of eye shadow maybe before a TV show

Well, I guess it wasn't only Agnetha's makeup box, but also Frida's!

"It is not perfect yet!"

Before a performance on a TV show in the 1980s

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Drawing ABBA

You can do nice works with some computer programs. Yesterday, I used one of them and turned some nice pictures into drawings. I think the results were pretty good, so I've decided to post these drawings here, as well as the original pictures from which I did the works.  

















It looks more like an old picture than a drawing...











Saturday, July 9, 2011

Getting exercises

ABBA goes sports! - article originally published in Dutch magazine Joepie, in November 1978


For several days, Benny had not been feeling especially well when he went to see a befriended doctor in Stockholm. Had he simply been working too hard or was there really something wrong? That question had already caused Benny several sleepless nights and it still took quite some time before he finally gathered his courage and went to see his friend.

The diagnosis relieved all Benny’s fears. “What you need, is some more exercise,” his friend told him. “You are a bit stressed, that’s all...”. Benny: “I have never felt this relieved in my entire life. But this little incident still got me thinking: aren’t we all working way too hard and aren’t we asking too much of ourselves? During a meeting, we discussed this subject and everyone was convinced right away: we should get more exercise!”

And he kept his word: barely one day later, he became a member of a tennis club in Stockholm. Benny: “I had been playing tennis before with Frida, but at the club I got genuine champions as my opponents. I sweated like a horse and the next day my muscles were completely stiff. But I’m feeling much better now. I go there at least once a week, if I’m home that is...”.

Lovely wife Frida chose a more relaxing kind of sports: jazz dancing. She became a student at the Stockholm Ballet Academy where she gets two hours of tuition every other week. Frida: “I’ve always been interested in jazz ballet, but I never had the time for it. Now that we are taking the time to do some sports, I decided to sign myself up. The plan is that I will be demonstrating some of these dance moves next year on our upcoming tour.   

Björn even went as far that he signed himself up for the Lidingö, a marathon of thirty kilometres. Björn didn’t finish first, but he still ran the entire track. “And I think that’s quite an accomplishment for me,” according to Björn. “I have been in training for two weeks for that competition and during that period I have forced up the amount of kilometres. But thirty kilometres is still a lot, believe me. I have to admit that I have walked a couple of kilometres, but I wasn’t the only one. I’m not planning to join these kinds of competitions regularly. I actually did this one more to please the organizer. But these days I do run four or five kilometres every day”.

Anna is now regularly getting into her jogging gear as well to loosen up her legs. “But I would never consider to join in a competition,” she says. “I’d rather determine my own pace...”.

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ABBA pratica esportes! - artigo originalmente publicado na revista holandesa Joepie, em novembro de 1978

Durante vários dias, Benny não se sentiu muito bem. Por isso, decidiu consultar-se com um médico amigo seu. Estaria ele simplesmente trabalhando demais? Ou haveria, de fato, algo sério? Essa dúvida o levou a uma série de noites maldormidas, tomando-lhe boa parte do tempo, até que ele tivesse coragem suficiente para procurar seu amigo.

Contudo, o diagnóstico apazigou todos os seus temores. "Você precisa praticar mais exercícios físicos", disse-lhe o médico. "Seu problema é apenas o estresse, nada mais". "Nunca me senti tão aliviado em toda a minha vida. Esse pequeno incidente, porém, me fez pensar: afinal, não estaríamos todos nós trabalhando e cobrando-nos demais? Discutimos esse assunto num encontro e nos convencemos de que deveríamos praticar mais exercícios", declara Benny.

E, de fato, ele manteve sua palavra: apenas um dia após a discussão, tornou-se membro de um clube de tênis de Estocolmo. "Eu costumava jogar tênis com Frida, mas, no clube, pude realizar jogadas com verdadeiros campeões. Suava feito um cavalo e, no dia seguinte, meus músculos estavam completamente rígidos. Agora, contudo, estou me sentindo bem melhor. Ao menos uma vez por semana, quando possível, frequento o clube", diz Benny.

Frida, sua adorável esposa, por sua vez, escolheu um tipo mais relaxante de esporte: dança jazz. Ela se tornou aluna da Academia de Balé de Estocolmo, onde faz duas horas de aula a cada duas semanas. "Eu sempre me interessei por balé jazz, mas nunca tinha tempo para praticá-lo. Já que resolvemos dedicar algum tempo aos esportes, porém, decidi me matricular. Meu plano é exibir alguns dos movimentos dessa dança em nossa próxima turnê, no ano que vem", comenta.

Björn, por outro lado, foi tão longe no assunto que se inscreveu na maratona de trinta quilômetros de Lidingö, na qual, embora não tenha terminado em primeiro, conseguiu percorrer toda a pista. "E eu considero esta uma grande conquista", ele diz. "Treinei por duas semanas para a competição e, nesse período, cheguei a aumentar a quilometragem. Pode estar certo, porém, de que trinta quilômetros já é muito. Tenho que admitir que consegui correr apenas alguns, apesar de não ter sido o único. Mas não planejo participar regularmente dessas competições; só ingressei nesta, para agradar seu organizador. Ainda assim, atualmente corro quatro ou cinco quilômetros por dia".

Já Anna regularmente veste sua roupa de cooper, a fim de movimentar mais as pernas. "Mas eu jamais pensaria em me envolver numa competição", ela diz. "Prefiro poder estabeler meu próprio ritmo...".


Text in English from ABBA The Articles Blog

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Coincidences

I have always thought ABBA members share many coincidences with each other. Both couples met - almost at the same time - in 1969, both Benny and Frida had two children - a boy and a girl - from previous relationships, both Frida and Agnetha had alrealdy met each other on a TV show before they met Benny and Björn, both guys didn't know to read or write music and both are musical geniuses, both of them got married for the second time with women with whom they are married till today... and so on. We may come across these and many other facts when we read their biographies or even when we collect their pictures. If you still have any doubt about it, just take a look at the pictures below and you'll know what I mean.

When I see the foursome here, for instance... 

... I quickly remember them in this another photo
Notice that even ABBA members are in the same places

When I see Frida's dress here...

... I immediately remember Agnetha's in this another one

When I take a look at Frida's leg here...

... I remember the same joke in this picture...

... or in this another one
And even the same smile on Benny's face!

And when I got delighted with this lovely dance...

... I know I've already seen this another one!