Benny tries to persuade Agnetha to record new songs written by herself!

From various sides reports have reached us that Benny on numerous occasions has mentioned that he finds that Agnetha should compose her own material for her next album. It sounds to us that Benny would be willing to lend a helping hand!

In Expressen Agnetha's former ABBA colleague said: "I like her latest album, but I like the song she wrote herself most of all". Benny has tried to persuade Agnetha to record a new album with her own songs Expressen published today. When the 30 journalists yesterday gathered in Benny's studio on Skeppsholmen to listen to the upcoming live album "ABBA live at Wembley Arena" Benny said about Agnetha: "While Agnetha was here to listen to the live material, I told her to record her own songs, but she would not listen to me", said Benny with a mysterious smile. On the upcoming live album by ABBA, which is published on the 29th September, you can listen to a "new" recording of Agnetha.

On the album, there's the song "I'm Still Alive", a rarity that has remained unreleased all these years. "It's a good song actually. I think Agnetha wrote it specifically for the tour", said Benny since he played it up."
A preview playback of 35-year-old live material attracted journalists from England, Germany and Australia and is a proof that Abba is still hot news material overseas. "The basic idea for the new ABBA Live album was to keep everything as much as possible. Nothing has been changed or added afterwards, except the drum sound that was missing in one song."

In front of the international press Benny once again stated that a reunion of Abba will never happen. "We are all very proud of what we accomplished, and I was surprised by how good we sounded live when I listened to the old stuff, but we have no interest in being reunited and we have no unreleased songs left to give out."