Because Valentine's Day is everyday

If you liked the post I made for Valentine's Day, you may also like this one with Benny and Frida's even rarer pictures. After all, if everyday is a Valentine's Day, everyday should also be a Benny and Frida's love celebration.

Benny and Frida at the premiere of Bond in 1971

Notice it is not a James Bond movie, but a cigarette brand!

Most of ABBA fans may know this lovely picture...

... but what about this one, even better?!

They're looking so relaxed and amused here!

Posing for a photo in 1975

I like the way Benny was always bonded to Frida 

♥

Benny and Frida enjoying the sun by the pool in 1976

Note that Frida has a band-aid on her chest!

Let's celebrate love!

Guess what?! This is Valentine's Day! 

To celebrate this, I'm bringing you some quite unusual Benny and Frida's pictures, in which this ABBA couple were enjoying a really good time together. 

The couple in the early 1970s

Benny and Frida singing - and almost kissing each other - during a concert from ABBA 1977 Tour

Enjoying their free time in 1978

This one is specially lovely, although its size and quality aren't very good...

Even though they were close to their divorce at that time, they did seem really lovely here...

Thanks to Karine, from ABBA Joy, for this picture

A joyful couple in another picture from 1980

This one was taken in late 1980... it's still a great memory, though

I've travelled every country, I've travelled in my mind

One of the things Anni-Frid likes most to do is reading. Her passion for books comes from her childhood, when, according to her, reading and playing the piano were her main hobbies. Among the books she likes most are the famous The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, all Leon Uris's works - especially the novel Mila 18 - and the deep Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. It's said Doris Lessing and Anaïs Nin are also appreciated by Frida.

I identify myself a lot with her, since I also love reading since I was a child. Indeed I would really like to know if she has ever read authors like Eça de Queirós, Mary Shelley and, mainly, Jane Austen, who is my great favorite. It would be wonderful!

I'd like to know which books are these, but it's impossible trying to identify them in this picture...

Benny and Frida enjoyed sharing their love for reading with each other

Does anyone know what book are they reading here?

Benny and Frida's bookshelves in their Lidingö's home 

It would be amazing if we could read the titles of the books! All I can see are some Arts books on the first shelf upwards

Frida with a Swedish edition of Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus

Endless love...

... is my love for Benny and Frida!

Enjoy more unusual pictures of them.

I don't know where this picture was taken, but, by Frida's hair, it's definitely from 1974

Playing during a photo shoot also in 1974

You give me love, you make me shine!

Benny: "Take your hand off my girl!"

The couple in a Björn Skiff's concert, in 1979

Singing The Way Old Friends Do

Super Troupers

See also Rare Benny and Frida, More rare Benny and Frida and Crazy for you

Crazy for you

This is a post for Benny and Frida's fans who use to jump off the chair every time they find out a new picture of the couple - just like me.

Do you remember what I wished in Young love?

I was so happy when I found out this picture!

The couple around 1974

Arriving in Poland in 1976

During their interview on the Swedish TV show Nöjesliv in 1977

During their participation on a German TV show in 1978

On the balcony of their house in Lidingö in 1978

See also Rare Benny and Frida and More rare Benny and Frida

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...

Say cheese!

Benny and Frida really had many tastes in common. Besides music, books and boating, for example, it seems that the couple also enjoyed taking pictures. And, of course, there's nothing better to prove that than... pictures!

There were hundreds of photographers taking pictures of ABBA that day, but Benny also had his camera!

Frida followed the steps of her beloved one...

:-)

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!