Yahoo News UK: Abba’s Benny Andersson: Songwriting is like waiting for a dragon to come out
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he also worked as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · Swedish musician and composer (born 1946) · singer · pianist · songwriter · record producer · organist · executive producer · pop musician · composer · musician · also Benny Andersson, Göran Bror Benny Andersson, Benny, Benny Sigvard Andersson, Andersson
Born 16 December 1946 · Q214582
50 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
7 photos · 1 audio
Listen
Sv-Benny Andersson
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Award
2026· 2 entries
Released album “CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2024· 2 entries
MPR News: ABBA's Benny Andersson on reprise of his Minnesota-set musical 'Kristina'
- #news
- #headline
Awarded Commander 1st class of the Order of Vasa (2024).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: “Benny Andersson has been in The Hives, how’s that for a headline?”: The Hives Howlin’ Pelle on the time his band joined forces with ABBA
- #news
- #headline
2018· 1 entry
Released album “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2017· 1 entry
Released album “Piano”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2012· 2 entries
Received an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the Luleå Tekniska Universitet Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
As composer of the music for the film "Palme"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2011· 2 entries
Released album “Mamma mia ! L'Album live du spectacle français”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Andersson did not disclose the extent of his substance abuse problems until a 2011 interview, at which point he had maintained nearly a decade of sobriety.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
2010· 1 entry
Released album “Kristina”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2009· 2 entries
Released album “Chess in Concert (2008 concert cast)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
BAO achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song "Du är min man" ("You Are My Man"), sung by Sjöholm
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2008· 3 entries
Released album “Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack: Featuring the Songs of ABBA”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Awarded Musikexportpriset (2008).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Andersson and Ulvaeus wrote a song for Swedish singer Sissela Kyle, titled "Jag vill bli gammal" ("I Wanna Grow Old"), for her Stockholm stage show "Your Days Are Numbered", which was never recorded and released but did
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2007· 2 entries
Was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the grow
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Wrote the new song "Han som har vunnit allt" ("He Who's Won It All") for actor and singer Anders Ekborg
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2006· 1 entry
Released album “Chess (2006 London Theatre Orchestra & Cast)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2004· 2 entries
Released album “Mamma Mia! (2004 German cast)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Mamma Mia! De musical met de hits van ABBA”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2003· 1 entry
Released album “Mamma Mia!”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2002· 2 entries
Released album “Chess på svenska”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Andersson was given an honorary professorship by the Swedish Government for his "ability to create high-class music reaching people around the world"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2001· 2 entries
Released album “Chess in Concert (1994 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Anders Eljas)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Chess (2001 Danish tour cast)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2000· 2 entries
Awarded Musikexportpriset (2000).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Wrote the music for fellow Swede (no relation) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor (the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1999· 1 entry
Released album “Sexton favoriter ur Kristina från Duvemåla”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1998· 1 entry
Released album “Från Waterloo till Duvemåla”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1996· 2 entries
Released album “Kristina från Duvemåla: Den kompletta utgåvan”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Chess Pieces”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1994· 1 entry
Released album “Chess In Concert”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1992· 1 entry
Wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 3 entries
Released album “Fågelsång i Sverige”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Andersson scored a Swedish No
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Released album “Fiolen min: Svenska spelmanslåtar”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1989· 1 entry
Released album “November 1989”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1988· 1 entry
Released album “Mio in the Land of Faraway”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1987· 4 entries
Released album “Chess: Original London Cast Live”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, My Son
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Andersson released his first solo album Klinga Mina Klockor ("Chime, My Bells")
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Released album “Klinga mina klockor”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1986· 1 entry
“After being asked if he ever gets stage fright”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
1985· 1 entry
Andersson produced and released an album with brother and sister Anders and Karin Glenmark, featuring new songs by Andersson/Ulvaeus
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1984· 1 entry
Released album “Chess”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1970· 1 entry
Released album “Lycka”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1966· 1 entry
And Christina kept custody of the children as Andersson was then at the peak of his Hep Stars' success
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-12-16.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth