INTRODUCTION

HER STORY

QUOTES

Agnetha's 1974 tight-fitting blue satin Waterloo costume left little to the imagination. Indeed, it was to start a worldwide fascination with her bottom which would last throughout her career.

In April 2004, Agnetha released a single If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind from the Album My Colouring Book, as a comeback after years of living as a recluse since the infamous ABBA split in 1982. The song, originally a hit for Cilla Black in 1969, was released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.

Born on 4 May 1950 in Jönköping, Sweden, Agneta (she added the "h" to her name later) was the older daughter of Ingvar an Birgit Fältskog. Her father was the manager of a department store.

She is known in Sweden as Garbo II-- for feeling haunted by her overwhelming fame during ABBA's heyday.

During her time alone, Agnetha is known to have suffered from a number of phobias including flying, open spaces, crowds and heights, and she underwent treatment to overcome her difficulties.

For the sake of ABBA, Agnetha and Bjorn claimed that their divorce was amicable. As is so often the case, it was anything but.

She lives on the island of Ekerö outside Stockholm.

Many of Abba's best-known outfits were designed by Owe Sandström. The white jumpsuit with green and white cape as worn by Agnetha during the 1974/1975 tours was the costume that helped her acquire the tag the sexiest bottom in pop music.

Of all the things she experienced with ABBA, she claims the Australian tour was the most incredible.

She always wears a small, narrow gold ring on her right ring-finger - her mother’s confirmation ring.

When Abba went on television to do Ring Ring in the qualifying round of the Eurovision Song Contest, on the 10th of February 1973, Agnetha was expecting. In fact, she was overdue by a few days.

She was never sewn into her Waterloo costume, as has been so often suggested. It just happened to be a very tight fit.

It was Agnetha who broke the news of the break-up of ABBA in an interview that appeared in Dagens Nyheter’s Sunday edition on 23 January 1983. Neither Björn, Benny nor Frida responded to the headlines.

To promote Wrap Your Arms Around Me, her first English-language solo album, Agnetha did 17 television programmes, 28 radio interviews and over a hundred newspaper interviews.

Ever since she was involved in a horrendous near accident on a flight, during ABBA’s 1979 tour of the USA, she’s been uneasy about flying. She avoids flying where possible.

Because of her shyness and loathing of the media, the Swedish press often compare Agnetha to Greta Garbo calling her Our new Garbo.

ABBA’s song Thank You For The Music has a particular significance to her, because when they recorded it she was pregnant with Christian and was forced to lie down to sing it.

The three topics she loves to engross herself in and read advanced books about are yoga, astrology and Ayur-Vedic medicine.

During a ten year period from 1987 onwards she neither played, sang nor listened to music.