Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

Hit recordings include " Du måste finnas " (" You Have to Be There ") from the symphonic musical Kristina från Duvemåla ( Kristina ), " Vår sista dans " (" If this is Our Last Dance ") with Benny Andersson's Orkester, " Gabriellas sång " ( from film Så som i himmelen aka As It Is In Heaven ), " Jag vet vad han vill " ( aka " I Know Him So Well ") from musical Chess, " Det är vi ändå " ( with Tommy Körberg and Benny Anderssons Orkester ), and " Du är min man " (" You Are My Man ") with Benny Anderssons Orkester, among others.

Martin Nyström of Dagens Nyheter wrote that Andersson and Ulvaeus " created a great Swedish musical that thematically touches on the great questions of our time " and compared Andersson's musicality with that of Schubert ; while Svenska Dagbladets Carl-Gunnar Åhlén concluded that Björn Ulvaeus " succeeded in presenting the drama without getting bogged down, despite its almost Wagnerian length ".

It was one of a number of tracks that explored the darker territory of Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson's songwriting as the two men's divorces were beginning to influence their musical output.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

He also wrote the theme for Roy Andersson's next film, You, the Living, from 2007.

Following contact with the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ( Östasiatiska Museet ) in Stockholm, it was confirmed that these were indeed left from Andersson's excavations.

Even though similar such ceramics have been excavated since Andersson's time by Chinese archaeologists, these lost collections hold a special interest and value since they derive from the first scientific archaeological excavations in China.

But Andersson's gorgeous folk-sourced melodies ( like a Swedish Grieg ) spirited us forward from one accordian-flecked knees-up and effusive ballad to the next ... If ever a piece sung a nation's pride, this is it.

On the bands later releases, Andersson's vocals incorporated soul influences from his and Scott Morgans sideproject The Solution.

In 1964 they debuted on the Swedish TV-show Hylands hörna with locally famous Swedish poet Dan Andersson's Jag väntar vid min mila ( translated as " I'm Waiting at the Charcoal Kiln ").

Against France, they lost to a Christophe Dugarry header reminiscent of Kennet Andersson's two years earlier, beating the goalkeeper to a lofted through ball.

It is possible they remain in Nanjing, but despite investigations by several competent parties ( Andersson's sending lists have been copied by the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities to major institutions for cultural heritage and archaeology in China ), they have not been relocated, and their whereabouts remains unknown.

Chess writer Dennis Monokroussos once remarked of Andersson's style, " For most of us, if we're playing a peer and major exchanges occur, a quick draw is the likely result [...] for Andersson [...] exchanges often not the prelude to a quick draw but the signal that it time for his opponent to start suffering.

A complaint against Anderson was submitted to the Stockholm District Court in June 1990 by Agnetha Fältskog's company Agnetha Fältskog Produktion AB, Benny Andersson's company Mono Music AB, as well as a Dutch company holding Björn Ulvaeus ' rights.

In 1986 Frida was in the choir for the recording of her former husband Benny Andersson's song " Klinga Mina Klockor ".

Körberg is also a frequent performer with Benny Andersson's band, Benny Anderssons Orkester ( BAO ), singing mostly dance music and music by Andersson.

She is also a frequent performer with Benny Andersson's band, Benny Anderssons Orkester ( BAO ), singing mostly dance music and music by Andersson.

* 2001-Benny Anderssons Orkester ( with Benny Andersson's Orchestra / Band )

According to the Social Democrat Björn Andersson's blog, SD is opposed to adoption rights for homosexual couples, and to letting lesbian women become inseminated.

This public museum was founded in 1926 on Andersson's pioneering discoveries of prehistoric archaeology made in China in the 1920s, and later expanded to cover later periods as well as other parts of Asia.

Burns's style was a source of inspiration for Martin Ander's artwork for Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson's solo project.

Andersson's return to filmmaking was a major success with the critics, earning him five Guldbagge Awards in Sweden for best film, direction, cinematography, screenplay and sound.

Excavations were undertaken by Andersson's assistant Austrian palaeontologist Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923 unearthing a great deal of material that was sent back to Uppsala University in Sweden for further analysis.

However, Lykos was again transformed into Sauron when the Toad used a machine to drain Tanya Andersson's life force into Lykos.

The Formula One team's roots can be traced to a later development in 1972, when Swede Ove Andersson's Andersson Motorsport team used a Toyota Celica 1600GT in the RAC Rally in Great Britain.

Andersson's most well-known popular book on his time in China is Den gula jordens barn, 1932, translated into several languages, including English ( as Children of the Yellow Earth, 1934, reprinted 1973 ), Japanese, and Korean.

For an extensive bibliography of Andersson's works, and a comprehensive discussion of his and his colleagues ' archaeological research in China, see M. Fiskesjö and Chen Xingcan, China before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China's Prehistory.

The last documentary evidence of these objects was a 1948 Visitors Guide to the Geological Survey museum in Nanjing, which listed Andersson's Yangshao artefacts among the exhibits.

Dr. Barlow is also creating a new lunar impact crater database similar to Wood and Andersson's, except hers will include all impact craters greater than or equal to five kilometers in diameter and is based on Clementine ( spacecraft ) images of the lunar surface.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented a retrospective of Andersson's work in September 2009.

Andersson's interest began early in life with KISS as his favorite band and soon discovered his childhood friend and future band mate Kenny Håkanssons father's record collection and bands such as The Ramones and Sex Pistols.

In these readings, the double bass is either kept discreetly in the background, or it is dressed in clown's attire -- the musical equivalent of a bull in a china shop.

He and Bradley had essentially put the producer in the driver's seat, guiding an artist's choice of material and the musical background.

The Nashville Edition, a singing group made up of two men and two women, served as the background singers for most of the musical performances.

The final result will be a musical “ history of the universe ", from the Big Bang onwards through galaxy and star formation, up until modern times, including images from the Hubble Space Telescope and rhythms derived from the cosmic background radiation, supernovae, quasars, and many other astrophysical phenomena.

The Pixies draw influence from a range of artists and genres ; each member came from a different musical background.

Deal's musical background was folk music and country ; she had formed a country-folk band with her sister in her teenage years, and played covers of artists such as The Everly Brothers and Hank Williams.

The eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).

Yoko Kanno and Hajime Mizoguchi composed and produced the series ' musical themes and background, incorporating a variety of styles including contemporary, classical, and Gregorian chant.

Gualeguaychú in the east of Entre Ríos province is the most important Carnival city and has one of the largest parades, with a similar afro-American musical background to Brazilian or Uruguayan Carnival.

By then, the economic pressures of the Depression as well as the in-house pressure to reduce expenditures, and possibly the academic background of the parent body in Oxford, combined to make OUP's primary musical business that of publishing works intended for formal musical education and for music appreciation −− again the influence of broadcast and recording.

Cornwell and Lundgren went on to ask about whether the participants had misrepresented themselves to their partner in a number of areas: their interests ( e. g. hobbies, musical tastes ); their age ; their background ; their appearance and ' mis-presentation of yourself in any other way ' ( p. 203 ).

By rapping in their native language, Islamic Force connected directly with Turkey as a country as well as their cultural background while simultaneously merging a global genre ( hip hop ) with a local culture ( Turkish traditions ) According to Diessel, “ The synthesis of Turkish musical idioms and language with hip hop was successful in appealing to a young audience.

The lyrics are not sung, but spoken conversationally over a musical background ; this track has been described as a precursor of hip hop music.

Hogarth was a significant contrast with Fish, coming from a New Wave musical background instead of progressive rock.

The melody of “ The Isle of Innisfree ” which is first heard over the opening credit sequence with Ashford Castle in the background becomes the principal musical theme of The Quiet Man.

Most march composers come from the United States or Europe, and have some type of musical background.

Due to the diverse background of many of his bands members such as their cultural background, socioeconomic status, age variations from young to old as well as musical experience ( some having none at all ) a broad range of ideas were developed and fused together leading to the early beginnings of jazz music.

The song was written in 1955 by Mae Boren Axton, a high school teacher with a background in musical promotion, and Jacksonville based singer – songwriter Tommy Durden.

The visible musical notation on the tile monument in the background shows themes from ( 1 ) " Gliding Dance of the Maidens " from Polovtsian Dances ; ( 2 ) " Song of the Dark Forest "; and ( 3 ) the " Scherzo " theme from Symphony No. 3.

Desi Arnaz retained his orchestra, which was used in the series musical numbers and to score the show's background and transitional music.

From the early days, manufacturers sought to create mechanisms which would pick out the melody of a musical composition over the background of the rest of the music in the same manner as a live pianist.

She began her musical career in the early 1980s, singing background vocals for Christian artists Mark Heard and Randy Stonehill.