AF: Yes, I did, or maybe I was five, anyway it was at an early age.
LB: A big and warm welcome to P4 Extra!
AF: Thank you so much.
LB: How did it sound, that song "Två Små Troll"?
AF: Hmm, how did it go... (sings) Två små troll träffades en dag. Två små troll lekte med varann. Something like that. There wasn't much more, so it was a short song.
LB: Did you play piano while composing it or was it just a capella?
AF: It was always with the piano from the beginning when I realised that I could make melodies on the piano and I started very, very early with that. So you could say that I was autodidactic (self-taught) in the beginning. It was much later on I started to take lessons.
LB: Wasn't it in your father's shows you made your debut?
AF: My father was what you would call a variety show king in Småland. He had his own dancers. He played the guitar, sang and wrote folk ballads, mainly he wrote lyrics so I think I have inherited that part from him.
LB: Was he funny in the variety shows?
AF: He was very funny as a person, I never saw those variety shows, they happened before I was born.
LB: Would you have liked to have seen them?
AF: Definitely. That would have been wonderful. I have seen photographs from that time. Later on I took part in variety shows myself together with some other girls.
LB: Which was your first variety show?
AF: It was mainly small productions in Småland, so we didn't have to travel far (laughs). It was all on a very small scale.
LB: What happened to your Småländska dialect, where did it go?
AF: Yes, it has disappeared. I recently counted how many years I have lived in Stockholm and it turned out it was several more years than I lived in Jönköping. I moved away from Jönköping when I was eighteen. So it (the dialect) just disappeared on the way. It's nothing I have worked on to get rid of.
LB: (with a Småländsk accent) But surely you can still speak småländska if needed?
AF: (also with a Småländsk accent) Yes, I still can speak småländska, but I have to strain myself to do it. (in her normal voice) It comes very easily when I talk to my sister for example.
LB: It's the same with me and västgötskan, it just comes when I'm talking with anyone from Skövde. You were thirteen years old when you started your first group, what kind of music did you perform?
AF: You are thinking of the girls I played with? Yes, it was my own songs, we performed them at parties, it was in a very small way. But then I started more seriously when I started singing with a dance band, but then I was fifteen.
LB: Frida told me that there were age limits back then regarding how young you were allowed to be to sing in a band. But she lied about her age.
AF: Maybe there were limits like that, maybe you had to be fifteen or something like that.
LB: So you had the right age at least.
AF: (laughing) Apparantly. But it was, when I think back now, how it was for my mother and father felt about it. A bit worrying I can imagine.
LB: Were they worried when you went on tour?
AF: Yes they were, because we toured a whole lot even back then. In a bus, you know, and it was late at night and we arrived back home early the next morning., so naturally they were worried.
LB: We started this conversation talking about how you started writing songs on your piano at the age of five. Do you have any idea about how many songs you have written?
AF: No, I really don't. But it was a lot of songs. My most creative period was between twenty and thirtyfive. And especially during the years when we were working with ABBA. I was working double in the sense that I was doing some solo productions during that time. And I also made the two albums with my children, one Christmas CD and one children's CD. One with Linda and one with Christian.
LB: And in the middle of the 70's you made "Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus".
AF: Yes, that's true.
LB: It was the last recording in Swedish, or should say the latest? Will there be another one?
AF: (laughing) I wish I could say that I'm working with one right now, but that is not the case because there is so much else going on in life and I think I have done my most creative period. I think it is behind me. I get ideas sometimes but they only stay as ideas and then I put them on the shelf so to speak.
LB: I've been trying to count how many singles you have released and if I'm right it's 43!
AF: Yes, that sounds about right.
LB: You also had a career in Germany. Do you remember this ("Wer Schreibe Noch Liebes Briefen" is playing).
AF: Could it be "Fragezeichen Mag Ich Nicht"?
LB: It could have been but it was "Wer Schreibe Noch Liebes Briefen". Who is it that still write love letters must be what it translates into?
AF: Yes, that's correct. I made a lot of those kind of songs in Germany and I had an advantage since I had read German in school, so I didn't have any problems it was just to start singing (laughs).
LB: How's your German nowadays, are you still good at it?
AF: No, not at all since I don't use it anymore, but somehow it is still there. I worked quite a lot in Germany and I recorded a lot there and I also lived there for six months.
LB: You had a German boyfriend, the producer, didn't you?
AF: Yes, I did, that's right.
LB: A lot of things happen during ones life.
AF: Yes indeed (laughs).
LB: The thing you said about that you get ideas to do something, what are you doing during the days, do you play on the piano?
AF: Yes, it happens that I play and take out melodies. But mostly it is together with my grandchildren that I have. And having grandchildren is a heavenly gift. So I try to teach them a little. But apart from that all I do is almost everything but music.
LB: Like what for example?
AF: We have a large farm here so there is always something that needs to be done. Then there's your children and grandchildren. The everyday life you know with all that comes with it.
LB: So it's the family that you care most about?
AF: Yes I do. And I always have.
LB: By the way, are you a good cook?
AF: (laughing) Are you hungry or...?
LB: Actually I am a bit. (Agnetha laughs loud in the background) What would you cook for me?
AF: At the moment there's nothing on the stove, but I get ideas when it comes to food too, eventually.
LB: I spoke with Frida last week and she said that when you two last met you talked about the importance of inspiration. If you are going to do something new you really need to be inspired.
AF: Yes, I think it's very difficult otherwise. And especially at my age. I mean we have done so incredibly much both Frida and I, both with ABBA and our solo careers. It's hard to find a new angle, something that would make me very motivated to do. I have, for example, toyed with the idea of recording Swedish folk ballads, there are so many beautiful songs in that category. But in the end I don't it done. It's difficult, you have to set time aside to go away somewhere to really get it done.
LB: Do feel like there are extra high expectations on you since you are a living legend?
AF: Partly, that affects me too. But that wouldn't stop me if I was motivated enough to do something new.
LB: One could think that you are very shy, but you are very determined when you when there's something you want to do.
AF: Yes I'm a strange mix of both. The shyness is still there in a way, it's the whole thing of showing yourself that scares me. I have always liked the work in the studio more than being on stage. But that was also a lot fun sometimes. It's fun to do things even though you think that you're not very good at. With ABBA we had no choice, we more or less just had to get out on the stage and do it even if you didn't feel good. Because if you feel good then it's not a problem, but you don't feel good all the time.
LB: So I understand that it feels better now when you can decide when you want to do something, to be seen or not.
AF: Yes, exactly, but I feel incredibly humble and grateful today for what we achieved and that the music still lives on.
LB: Did you hear about the tribute concert in Hyde Park last Sunday?
AF: Yes, I knew it was going to happen and it's absolutely fantastic!
LB: It was Chaka Khan and Kylie Minogue to mention to that honoured you by singing ABBA songs and 40.000 Brits came out despite weather and wind.
AF: It's totally fantastic and it doesn't seem to ever end. Our music will be a part of history.
LB: Björn and Benny were there on stage, I guess you were invited too?
AF: (laughs) Well, I'm not very good at travelling. I haven't participated alot when events like this has taken place. And it's not because I don't want to, it's that it's a little hard for me to do.
LB: Flying is not a lot of fun, right?
AF: (laughs) No, but I'm starting to learn that too.
LB: You keep fighting it.
AF: Yes, you never know how it will end.
LB: We have had the pleasure to have an Agnetha week. If you get to chose yourself what song would you pick?
AF: (sighs) Oh. "Då Finns Du Hos Mig".
LB: Tell me about that song.
AF: It's one favourite. I don't realise that I have written it. It's very special, I can't tell you what it is, but I think it's good.
LB: Does it happen, Agnetha, that you listen to your own music sometimes?
AF: It happens. It happens if I feel a little insecure and my self confidence is low once in a while. Then I put some songs on and then I think "well this was good at least" and I must say that if I play some ABBA song some time I feel the energy of it. I understand what it is that people appreciate about this music. Because we really gave all, and especially the energy. Our voice were at their best. So I think that what we achieved will always sound good, there's nothing to complain about. We were also very meticulous and we did everything ourselves.
LB: Now we will listen to the song you wrote and when you were at your best.
AF: Thanks.
LB: Great to have you with us on P4 Extra.
AF: It was fun. Is it over now?
LB: Yes, for this time at least. Now we end by listening to your song.
AF: That sounds good. Thanks. Bye bye.
LB: Bye bye.
material reproducido de fuente:
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audio:
thanks to Lotta Bromé
Agnetha Fältskog in an interview from June 7, 1985. From the TV-show "Gäst hos Hagge". - Dec 31
Frida in an interview from May 5, 1983. From the TV-show "Gäst hos Hagge" - Dec 31
Interview Frida con Lotta Brome - Anni-Frid Lyngstad pratar med Lotta Bromé i P4 Extra
THE STORY OF ABBA ( FROM START UNTIL TODAY) - Dec 02
ABBA Documentary Super Troupers 30 Years Of ABBA - Dec 09
ABBA career - ABBA WORLD exhibition - Jan 30
Mamma Mia! ABBAWORLD!!! - Jan 27
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8 de marzo de 2010
Agneta Fältskog i exklusiv intervju med Lotta Bromé.
Superskygga superstjärnan Agneta Fältskog har hyllats hela veckan hos Lotta Bromé i P4 Extra.
I morgondagens program bjuder Lotta på ett avslappnat samtal med ABBA-stjärnan om alltifrån vad hon gör på dagarna till om det blir någon ny platta. QX har lyssnat på intervjun.
Förra veckan var det Frida-vecka i P4 Extra, och den här veckan är det Agneta-vecka. Sångerskorna i ABBA hyllas med andra ord stort hos Lotta Bromé och vi får ta del av material från hela deras sångkarriär, från barndom till senast släppta platta. Och precis som förra veckan då Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad-Reuss intervjuades så bjuder Lotta på en intervju med veckans huvudperson. Den tidigare så medieskygga Agneta Fältskog svarar väldigt avslappnat och öppet på Lotta Bromés frågor.
Så här svarar hon på frågan om det blir någon ny platta:
- Jag tror att jag har gjort min mest kreativa period, jag har ju den bakom mig. Jag har ju idéer ibland, sen lägger jag det på hyllan på något vis.
Hon fortsätter:
- Vi har ju gjort så otroligt mycket, både Frida och jag, både med Abba och som soloartister, och det är svårt att hitta en ny infallsvinkel, nåt man skulle känna sig motiverad att göra.
Agneta berättar att hon har varit inne på att göra något med svenska folkvisor, men hon kommer inte till skott och hittar inte tiden. Hon håller med Lotta om att det kan finnas vissa krav på henne, då hon är en levande legendar, men de kraven skulle inte stoppa henne om hon var tillräckligt motiverad.
Sångerskan berättar också att hon fortfarande är blyg, och har svårt att, ”visa upp sig”. Hon berättar att hon alltid gillat studioarbetet bättre än att stå på scenen. Agneta vet med sig att hon sällan är med i offentliga ABBA-sammanhang och anledningen är inte att hon inte vill, utan att det ”kostar på lite grann”, som hon uttrycker det.
När hon får välja en favorit bland sina egna låtar så tar hon ”Då finns du hos mig”, och visst lyssnar hon på sig själv. Då hon har lite lågt självförtroende sätter hon på musik som hon spelat in tidigare och tänker att ”ja, det här var ju bra i alla fall”.
Och det är klart att även ABBA åker på hemma hos Agneta Fältskog:
- Man förstår vad det är folk har fastnat för. Vi gav ju allt, just den här energin. Våra röster var ju på topp, och det vi presterade kommer alltid att låta bra, det finns inte mycket att anmärka på där...
Intervjun med Frida kan ni höra HÄR, och Agneta-intervjun sänds som sagt i morgon kl 14.15 i P4 Extra hos Lotta Bromé.
http://www.qx.se/noje/11626/agneta-faltskog-i--exklusiv-intervju-med-lotta-brom%C3%A9-
otra traducción - another translation
Saturday, 19 September 2009 11:42
[Lotta Bromé speaks about the ’Anni-Frid Lyngstad-week’ in P4 Extra last week and that this week is a Agnetha Fältskog-week when songs from the 60’s , 70’s, 80’s and 00’s have been played.]
LB : Her first song was ”Jag var så kär” composed by herself. It was a great no1 on the Kvällstoppen(the evening top-chart), Agnetha’s first no1 of Kvällstoppen. But allready as a six-year-old you composed your first song ”Två små troll”, didn’t you Agnetha?
AF : Yes, I did…or at five or something, it was early however.
LB : A great and warm welcome to P4 Extra.
AF : Thank you!
LB : What was it like that song ”Två små troll”?
AF : Well, what was it like? *Sings* Something like that, and then it wasn’t much more so it was probaly rather short.
LB : Did you play the piano to it or was it just with the voice?
AF : No there was always piano from the start, because I found out I could take out tunes on the piano and I started to do this very early. So I’m originally self taught, you could say, and then I have had education after that, but that was much later on.
LB : It was with your dad that you had your debut on the stage?
AF : Yes, my dad was a so-called variety-show king in Småland. He had a ballet of his own, he played the guitar and sang, wrote songs and above all wrote lyrics. So I suppose it is from him I have had the heredity.
LB : Was he fun in the variety-show, you think?
AF : He was very funny both as a person and…I never saw any of those varetiy-shows, that was before I was born you could say.
LB : Would you have liked to see any of it?
AF : Yes, that would have been great fun. I have seen photos and such, but...Then I actually played in variety-shows myself with some other girls.
LB : Really. What was the first variety-show?
AF : It was this kind of local productions in Småland so we didn't went that far. It was very small-scale, you could say.
LB : Where has it gone by the way, your småland-accent?
AF : Well it has vanished. The other day I counted for how long time I have been living up her in Stockholm and it was several years more than what I lived in Jönköping. I moved away from there when I was eighteen. It has just gone away along the way, it's nothing that I have been working to get rid of.
LB : *Imitating a smålands-accent* But certainly you can speak a bit of småland-accent if you need to?
AF : *With småland-accent* Well, I can still speak småland-dialect but then I have to exert a bit like this, you know. But it comes along rather easy when I'm speaking to my sister and so.
LB : Like it is for me with the Västergötland-accent. It use to appear when I'm speaking to someone from Skövde.
AF : Yes then you apparently let something else away and that appears.
LB : Thirteen when you formed your first group. What kind of songs were you playing?
AF : Do you mean these girls? It was my songs. We did just perform at parties and such, so it was very small-scale in that way. But then I started more for serious when I started singing in a dance-band, but then I was fifteen.
LB : Frida told that there was an age-limit for how young you were allowed to be to join the dance-bands, but she lied about her age.
AF : Yes, it might have been so. Perhaps you had to be fifteen or so.
LB : But you was old enough when you started?
AF : Yes, apparently. But considering it now, what it was like for your mum and dad, they were probably little worried, I can imagine.
LB : Where they worried when you left?
AF : Yes, they probably were so because we were travelling very very much around already at that time, by bus. It was late hours of work. You arrived late at night or early in the morning, so of course they were worried.
LB : We started this little talk by saying you that started to take out tunes on the piano as a four- or five-years-old and the music came out of you. Do you know how many songs you have written?
AF : No, I don't, but it is several. My most creative period was there some around between twenty and thirty-five years old, that is when tall pieces have been made. Especially during the time when we were working with ABBA, you can say that I worked double since I made some solo-projects on my own. I also made those records with my children; one Christmas-cd and one children's-cd it turned out to be, one with Linda and one with Christian.
LB : And then in the mid-70's,“Elva kvinnor i ett hus”.
AF : Yes, this one as well.
LB : It was the last Swedish-language album, or should you say the latest. Can you expect it to be a new one?
AF : *Laughing* I wish that I could say 'yes, I'm working with a new one', but this is not the case. There are so many other things that is happening in your life and I think I have done my most creative period, it probably lies beyond me. But I'm having ideas and so, but it mostly says as just ideas and then I somehow put it on the shelf.
LB : I was trying to count how many singles there has been over the years, and if I'm correct there are thirty-three of them.
AF : Yes, that might be correct.
LB : Then there was a career in Germany as well. Do you remember this? *playing 'Wer schrieibt heut noch liebesbriefe'* Do you remember?
AF : Yes, it sounds a little familiar. Could it be “Fragezeichen mag ich nicht”?
LB : For instance. Or “ Wer schrieibt heut noch liebesbriefe”.
AF : Oh, right!
LB : Who is it who still writes love-letters, or something like that it must be in Swedsih?
AF : Yes, right. I did many titles like this in Germany actually at that time. It was a plus to me that I had actually been studying German in school, so it was no problems. It was just to sing on somehow.
LB : Yes, how is it with the German nowadays, does it work fine?
AF : No, it doesn't, since you don't keeping it up. But it is aslo still there somewhere. I worked quite a lot there and recorded a lot, and lived there fore some six-months as well.
LB : You had a German boyfriend who was a producer
AF : Yes, that is right, I had.
LB : There is a lot that happens in life
AF : It is.
LB : But this about ideas coming...what are you doing during the days. Do you strum a bit on the piano, what are you doing?
AF : Yes, it still happens that I strum on the piano but then mostly together with...I'm having grandchildren now and it is a blessed gift, really, and then I'm trying to teach them a little. So it happens that you're strumming a bit to teach, but otherwise I'm doing almost everything else but music, to say.
LB : Like what?
AF : We're having a great farm here and there is always something that has to be done. And then you have your children and grandchildren. The daily life, you know, all that it means.
LB : It is the family that you care about?
AF : It, is. It has always been.
LB : Are you good with cooking,by the way?
AF : Well, are you hungry?
LB : Yes, a little actually. What do you offer?
AF : *Laughing* At the moment there is nothing on the stove, but you might have some idea later on.
LB : I talked to Frida, Anni-Frid Lygstad, last week and she told that when you last met, in connection to the Mamma Mia! Premier or something, you had been talking about what you spoke about earlier, the significance of inspiration. That is you should do something new than you really have to feel inspired.
AF : Yes, I believe it is very difficult otherwise, and especially at this age. We have done so incredible much both Frida and myself, with ABBA and as solo-artist. It is difficult to find a new angle of approach, something that you are motivated to do. For instance I have been thinking about doing Swedish ballads, there are so incredible many good ballads. But I do not manage to actually do it, it is hard. One has to sit down, one has to offer time to go some where and...
LB : But do you experience that there are high demands on you since you are a living legend?
AF : Yes, it probably affects me, but it wouldn't stop me if I was enough motivated to do something new.
LB : One might perhaps think that you are a shy person, but you are rather determined when you tactually want something.
AF : Yes, I'm some strange mix. I'm both shy and determined. The shyness is still left there inside me, it is this about showing up yourself that I'm finding a bit difficult. I have always enjoyed the work in the studio more than standing on stage. But that was also very fun sometimes, so it's fun to do even those things that you maybe don't think you are very good at. We were less or more forced to do that, so it was just to go on stage, even if you didn't felt well. If you are doing well then it goes on very good, but you not always do and then it can feels very frustrating.
LB : Then it probably feels better now when you're having control and can decide when to how up and not.
AF : Yes, I do think so. But you are feeling incredible humble and grateful today for what we have achieved and that the music still is alive, and that it comes in new versions all the time.
LB : Really. Did you hear about this tribute-concert in Hyde Park last Sunday?
AF : Yes, I knew about this one. It's amazing!
LB : It was Chaka Khan and Kylie Minogue, for those who, who among others made a tribute by singing ABBA-songs. 40 000 British people braved the weather.
AF : It is amazing. It doesn't seem to be any end of it either, this music goes to history.
LB : Björn and Benny were on stage last Sunday, I suppose that you was asked as well?
AF : I'm not an ace of travelling there and back. I haven't participated that much in this kind of events. It 's not this that I don't want to, it's that it costs me a bit...
LB : Flying isn't that fun, is it?
AF : No, but I'm beginning to learn this as well.
LB : You're keeping it up
AF : Yes, so you never knows where it ends
LB : No, you don't.
We have had the pleasure to have an Agnetha-week. If you should choose yourself among the songs you have made over the years, what do you chose then?
AF : ...”Då finns du hos mig”.
LB : Tell us about this song.
AF : It is a little favourite. I can't realise myself that I have written it. It is very special. I can't say what it is, but I do think myself that it's good.
LB : Does it happens, Agnetha, that you are listening to your own music?
AF : It happens. It happens if I'm having a bit of weak self-confidence sometime. Then I might play something and then you're thinking 'well, this was good anyway'. And I must say that if I sometimes are playing some ABBA-songs, then I'm feeling what an energy it is within it and you understand what people sees in this music. We really gave everything, this energy, and our voices were at top, so what we achieved will always sound good. It is not much to criticise there, we were very accurate and made everything ourselves. It is made in an accurate way.
LB : Now we will listen to the songs you have made yourself and when you performed at top.
AF : Thank you
LB : How nice you participated in P4 extra.
AF : Yes, how nice. Is it over now?
LB : Yes we stop here. For this time any way. Now we will listen to your song.
AF : How nice
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