Swedish superstars ABBA are a pop phenomenon -- one of the biggest and most enduring groups ever to wear matching white body suits. They have had number one hits the world over and 26 years after they last performed together the huge success of "Mamma Mia! The Movie" proved they were as popular as ever.
Bjorn Ulvaeus was one half of the songwriting genius behind the hit factory that was ABBA. His music has touched millions of people, sold hundreds of millions of records and become a blueprint for chart success.
Ulvaeus grew up in the remote Swedish town of Vastervik on the Baltic Sea. His first taste of musical success came as a teenager with the "Hootenanny Singers," a folk group that scored a series of number ones in Sweden in the '60s.
It was while touring the country with his band that Ulvaeus first met Benny Andersson of Swedish group "The Hep Stars." Ulvaeus and Andersson struck up a friendship and began writing songs together.
The pair moved to Stockholm as songwriting partners and it was in the Swedish capital at that Bjorn and Benny met Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstaf -- the singers who would become their future wives, and the other half of ABBA. 
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