Filmed: Late August/Early September 2017
Location: Riksmixningsverket (RMV Studio), Stockholm, Sweden
Broadcast: Tuesday 19 December 2017
Release status: Unreleased
Shown in: Worldwide (Internet)
Deutsche Grammophon made this brilliant presentation of Benny's Piano album, consisting of Benny chatting about his musical life and playing excerpts of songs on the album, available on their YouTube channel. It was published with English sub-titles, even though Benny speaks in English.
Benny chatted about which songs to include on the album, growing up and learning the piano and he played excerpts of several songs featured on the album:
He described the album as "music to iron shirts to" and demonstrated how part of Thank You For the Music was in Someone Else's Story - "It's called recycling!" he said.
Benny said he was lucky as a child to be a) given a piano at the age of 10 and b) to have a mother who was patient enough to let him play the piano and make a noise before he learned to play properly.
Talking about Chess, he joked that he might release a whole piano album of Chess music but without One Night in Bangkok. I hope he wasn't joking!
I think this was filmed a while before it was made available because Benny was wearing different glasses during September-December 2017 when he was doing TV promotion for Piano.
This is well worth a watch.
There is some crossover in footage included in Piano - Electronic Press Kit (EPK).
Live and Direct (Benny), 2017;
Piano - Electronic Press Kit (EPK) (Benny), 2017;
Thanks to Chris Williams c/o ABBAtalk.
YouTube links c/o Deutsche Grammophon