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Monday, March 17, 2008

R.I.P. Ola Brunkert, ABBA drummer, found dead

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Mon, Mar 17 at 12:16 PM

The BBC reports that Ola Brunkert, the drummer who played on most of the ABBA records, was found dead in a freak accident. A broken glass partition was found on his property, and the cause of death was bleeding to death from a cut in his neck. Yikes! Officials are presuming he fell and injured himself.

I have a love/hate relationship with ABBA. I actually read a book about them (part of an extremely ill-advised attempt to make it through the library’s music section alphabetically), and it was interesting to read how the couples came together and broke apart, and pretty much stifled all of their emotions in order to make giant meatballs of cash. But I only have peripheral exposure to their music. Some of it, I like a lot. (“Knowing Me Knowing You”? That’s the one where one of the women sexily breathes “Good days, bad days…” right? And I am not ashamed to liking “Dancing Queen.”) And some of it, not so much.

It’s fucking hard to find Abba videos that show the drummer, okay?

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