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.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

Stig ' Stikkan ' Erik Leopold Anderson ( nee Andersson ) ( 25 January 1931 – 12 September 1997 ) was born in Hova, Sweden, and is best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA.

Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson first started his explorations of the region in 1918 at an area called Chicken-bone Hill by locals who have misidentified the rodent fossils that are in abundance there, but it was not until 1921 that he and American palaeontologist Walter W. Granger were led to the site known as Dragon Bone Hill by local quarry men.

Both Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson have lauded Björn Again a number of times over the years, and after ABBA's former members made their intentions known that they were not going to perform together any longer, Andersson was quoted as saying in 1999, " BJÖRN AGAIN are the closest you can get to seeing ABBA.

Roy Andersson ( born 31 March 1943 ) is a Swedish film director, best known for his films A Swedish Love Story and Songs from the Second Floor.

Nicke Andersson ( also known as Nick Royale ), born 1 August 1972 is a singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and composer most known for his work as the singer and guitarist of the successful Grammy award winning rock band The Hellacopters as well as the former drummer for Swedish death metal band Entombed.

Abraham Andersson, usually known under the Latin form of his name, Abrahamus Andreæ Angermannus or just Abraham Angermannus ( died in October 1607 ) was the fourth Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1593 to 1599.

ABBA consisted of Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad ( better known as Frida ), Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

DJ Proteus, also known as Harri Andersson, ( born 1977 ), is a Finnish hard dance DJ.

On 4 July 2009, Helen performed as lead female singer with the Benny Andersson Band ( the name by which BAO is known outside Sweden ) at a free concert on Hampstead Heath in London to mark Sweden's presidency of the EU.

Ulla Agneta Jones née Andersson, known professionally as Ulla Andersson and as Ulla Jones ( born June 18, 1946 in Sweden ) is a former high fashion model, actress, singer and songwriter who appeared on numerous magazine covers during the 1960s, before she retired from the Ford Modelling Agency, and has been married to Quincy Jones.

Tomma Abts, Pawel Althamer, Francis Alÿs, Mamma Andersson, Chiho Aoshima, Kaoru Arima, Kutlug Ataman, John Bock, Lee Bontecou, Robert Breer, Fernando Bryce, Kathy Butterly, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Chan, Anne Chu, Robert Crumb, Jeremy Deller, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Peter Doig, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Mark Grotjahn, Rachel Harrison, Carsten Höller, Katarzyna Kozyra, Jim Lambie, Mangelos, Julie Mehretu, Senga Nengudi, Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Neo Rauch, Ugo Rondinone, Eva Rothschild, Yang Fudong

The personal relationships and Andersson and Ulvaeus ' songwriting collaboration has led quite naturally to the very close co-operation which the four friends had during the following years.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

Andersson was engaged to Christina Grönvall after she became pregnant by him as a result of a sexual encounter that they had when Andersson was 16 years old.

Upon his return to Sweden in 1876, he founded a small mechanical workshop together with his friend Carl Johan Andersson who had also worked at Öllers & Co ..

Both films had huge casts of major international actors ( Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, James Caan, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, etc.

Before the 2002 election, former Moderate Party MP Sten Andersson defected to SD, citing that the party had gotten rid of its extreme right elements.

Karlgren had been in close contact with Andersson for many years, and also succeeded Andersson as editor of the museum's journal, the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ( BMFEA, 1929 -) and continued in this position until the 1970s.

After seven games, AIK were at the top of the league, in the Swedish Cup final, and had three players ( Dick Lidman, Ola Andersson, Jan Eriksson ) capped for the national team.

Some of the songs on the resulting album contained elements of music Andersson and Ulvaeus had previously written for ABBA.

In turn Andersson had earlier read a tabloid article over Hep Star's camp car they used on touring and which could take in both band and the equipment ensuring him Hep Stars had it going along with their assuring comments on the current scene.

Andreas Andersson then had a shot off the crossbar and out.

Roy Andersson had a breakthrough with his first feature-length film, A Swedish Love Story in 1969, and was awarded four prizes at the International Film Festival in Berlin the same year.

Harket had another daughter, Karmen Poppy, ( born 7 September 2008 ), with Inez Andersson.

Director of photography was Ulf Brantås, who started his career as a cinematographer for Roy Andersson and had filmed both of Moodysson's previous feature films.

The first shipments were sent by Andersson to Peking, and the last ones to Nanjing, which had become the new capital of China.

Veteran Thomas Andersson, who had to leave the pitch because of a bleeding injury, made his last performance for the club.

In late 1994, Andersson formed The Hellacopters as a side project together with Dregen, Kenny Håkansson and Robert Eriksson, all of whom earlier had been roadies during Andersson's time in Entombed.

During the 2003 season Halmstad had a chance for a medal until the end of the season where the club lost 7 of the 8 last games and ended up in 9th place, Jonas Thern decided to leave the club during the autumn and assistant manager Janne Andersson became new manager.

More recently, he has been lauded for discovering Alexander Edler, now one of the Canucks ' top defencemen, when he was a complete unknown playing in the Swedish 3rd division ( only he and Red Wings scout Hakan Andersson had scouted him ), and convincing Vancouver management to trade up to select Edler in the third round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

Bayern then had to make their own way to the championship with at least a draw against Hamburger SV which they only narrowly managed on a Patrik Andersson equalizer ( 1: 1 ) deep into stoppage time.

Among the dead are Harald Andersson, Nisse and a young girl who had only been a bystander.

Queen Alexandra has been portrayed on British television by Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan in Edward the Seventh, Ann Firbank in Lillie, Maggie Smith in All the King's Men, and Bibi Andersson in The Lost Prince.

ABBA-members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have been very successful in musical theatre, with their international hit Mamma Mia !, as well as Chess, and Kristina från Duvemåla, which was a huge success in Sweden.

* The simplest is to trade off the bishop by means of 4 ... Bxd2 +; this line is not particularly popular, but has been played frequently by the Swedish grandmaster Ulf Andersson, often as a drawing line.

Very few players in history have been as successful as Andersson at both forms of chess.

Andersson has been involved in well over a hundred different official releases with different bands.

In 2009, it has been announced that Andersson and Neil Leyton have a side-project called The Point, with a 7 " single titled " Give it a try " due to be released in the spring of 2010.

It has been speculated that one reason for the improvement was the 1 000 000 Swedish kronor donation made to the party by former ABBA member Benny Andersson.

An English album by the Benny Andersson Band was released on 6 July 2009 with some of the Swedish original songs having been translated into English and a new song ( Story of a Heart ) which is also the title of the album.

English translations of individual songs have been presented at various concert performances throughout the last two or three years, mainly by Helen Sjöholm or Swedish musical theatre stalwart Tommy Körberg, always in association with Benny Andersson or Björn Ulvaeus.

Andersson has long been active in the contemporary music field, and has played a significant role in the creation of the modern guitar repertoire.