Hellenius hörna = Hellenius' corner

Björn Ulvaeus was a guest on the Swedish talk show Hellenius hörna hosted by David Hellenius.

He was asked about how he started with music, how he met Benny and about Mamma Mia! - The Party.  He also had a story to share: It was when they had decided to write Chess, they went on a trip to Moscow to do some research. One evening they went out drinking and then they came back to their hotel at Red Square. It was late and snow had just fallen and they looked out the hotel window and wanted to go out to Red Square to walk in the snow because there were no footprints in the snow. Once they were out there, Björn felt he really had to pee so he walked up to a building and started peeing. Then suddenly two soldiers stormed out of the building. It turned out Björn had pee'd on some kind of headquarters. But luckily enough, Björn had some postcards (of ABBA I assume) in his jacket so he pulled out the photo and pointed that it was him so they recognized him and there was no problem anymore!

Also Björn said that he has always been the one with bad confidence and Benny is the one with the confidence. Whenever they work on a project and Björn has doubts, he steps out of himself and says "You had the same doubts with other projects and look, it turned out good".

Björn also said he and Benny feel like writing another musical but it has to be based on a really good story.

Benny's interview on Köttberget checkar ut was shown the same evening.

Thanks to Claes Davidsson, Linda Veerhuis and Rik Eijer c/o ABBAtalk. Thanks also to Jan Bach.