The day after the 2nd Anniversary of ABBA Voyage, Björn was up north visiting LIPA to take part in a Q&A with students and described how he and Benny wrote songs together. Björn said he only started work on lyrics once the pair were completely satisfied with the melody and had spent time in the studio creating a basic backing track. 

He said, “I would then take that backing track away to somewhere isolated and play it over and over and over again, and it sounds strange, but it (the music) would tell me what the song was about. I would get images in my head, even a sequence of events like a movie.

“The verse of Knowing Me, Knowing You for instance I could see this woman walking from room to room with boxes everywhere and something had ended. Children had played in those rooms. A few times I tried writing lyrics at the same time as the melody, but I always found the songs could change shape completely in the studio and become something else to what I’d originally thought.” 

There are only a couple of brief clips of his Q&A on YouTube and Björn's own Instagram account showed a montage of him at the LIPA, meeting students, seeing exhibits and standing in a mock Cavern Club setting at The Beatles Story attraction to the tune of The Beatles' Penny Lane.  See it here, it is blocked on YouTube (possibly because of Penny Lane's inclusion).

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The Beatles Story

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