Monday, February 3, 2014

Björn again

4/18/2007 9:30:00 AM

I'll never forget a documentary I saw on ABBA some time in the eighties. It had a section where Björn Ulvaeus explains that he writes most of his best songs while running. Then he is shown running and "Take a Chance" is playing in the background: "take-a-chance-take-a-chance-take-a-take-a-chance-chance...".

In another scene Björn and Benny are on an island outside Stockholm playing the piano and the guitar and saying they almost never write anything on paper.

I can totally relate to that. That Vagabond song on my Soundcloud page came to me at Easter while walking on a lakeside in East Flanders. It took about two minutes.

I won't tell the name of that lake because it wasn't its fault.

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