ABBA couple reunite for every festive season - for grandkids

They might have got divorced nearly 29 years ago, but former ABBA couple Bjorn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog still reunite every festive season for the sake of their two young grandchildren.

The stars married in 1971 and had two kids, Linda and Christian, before their divorce in 1980.

Although both have remarried, they still remain close for the sake of Linda’s kids, eight-year-old Tilda and Esther, two.

“I see Agnetha quite often because we have two grandchildren together and they want both Grandma and Grandpa there at Christmas and things like that,” the Daily Express quoted Ulvaeus as telling Hello! magazine.

Comments

[Matthias Schulz]

g r e a t :)))
Yours,
Matthias

[mikespeir]

Oh, no. They hate each other. I read it right here. (Stupid tabloids!)

I saw this picture one time and have looked all over for it since but couldn't find it. Thanks for putting it up.

Does everybody in that part of the world play the accordion?

[Monica]

That's nice they try to be friendly when it comes to the grandchildren.

[Nonya]

sadly accourding to tabloids everybody hates everybody. This is very nice. Thanks. =)

[Maarit]

How nice old time names the children have! No need to be on unfriendly terms even if they are divorced.
Of course it is easy for Agnetha to play accordion with piano "koskettimet". Could she play as well with button "koskettimet" too?
And no, everybody doesn't play accordion in this part of the world, though it is usual in folk music here in Finland, too. And we have competitions in it: "Kultainen harmonikka" in a town called Ikaalinen. There even can be quite young participants there.

[Thomas Wilson]

I think that frequently people everywhere forget there is one thing to remember in the first place is context. The facts are that they were in a marriage that was a very stressful one, in a unique situation that only one couple ( in what? a hundred million? ) other than themselves could empathize with, namely Benny and Frida, and not perfectly, then, that is to say they were in a highly volatile, stressful situation where the odds of them staying together were not good. What was apparent was that he was bent on riding this wave of success out period, because I think he knew intuitively it would never come their way again. To some the success and adrenaline of being in front of an audience and getting to perform is the strongest sort of stimulent there is. I think that if they were serious about the relationship it would have been good to have quit show business. But, that is moot. I'm talking purely from a relational paradigm, not about who is who, here, or what I think of either of them, or the decisions they made. That was their call to make. I couldn't have dealt with the failure of a relationship, to me that is the most important part of life. The rest have to fall in line with it. However, I'm not them.

[mikespeir]

Maarit:

Yeah. It's just that I associate the accordion so much with the music of that part of the world. Actually, it used to be a lot more popular here in the U.S. I even remember my mother playing one a little bit when I was a child. She wasn't very good, but she could play chords well enough to accompany herself while singing hymns.

[Maarit]

I think it really would be very hard to work together and to live a married life together, too. At first it is easy but then one begins to want to have separate interests too.

What a nice thing to remember your mother by, Mike! And in Eurovision Song Contest Riki Sorsa "Reggae OK!" there was an accordion to accompany the song. It was commented then that the song was in a really slow tempo and an accordion in a reggae song...It was about 1980. The song was quite popular in Germany, though it did't do well in the competition.