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their inspirational sound at

» the 1992 Reading Festival.
Bikers love them. Agnetha
Falstart, Frida Longstokin,
'. Benny Anderwear and Bjorn
Volvo-us are Biorn Again
and they’re here, Tuesday,
Sept. 26, at the Fabulous
“Commodore Ballroom,

A tale is told that the super |
: troopers surfaced in 1989 following
a collision between their helicopter
and a large but glittering platform
shoe.

They were stranded on gn island
and eventually rescued.

. Bjorn Again is often mistaken
for the pop institution once known
as Abba.

Bjom Volvo-us called in from
London, England, recently to hype
the upcoming show.

You guys are huge! How does it
feel to be called Abba-esque?

“Well, it was so great for us last

_ time at Richard's. I can remember
the crowd (in Vancouver) the last
time. they were going so wild!"

“You gave people sparklers.

“Uthink that people should carry...

‘sparklers everywhere that they go.
dtsort of brightens up things.”
Can you tell me about the connec-
»tion- between. Abba cand Bjorn

_ Again? Is it psychic or physical?

“We have been trying to find
“that out for the last six years.

> "tn 1989 there was a terribie

helicopter accident and we woke
up. and! we could not remember

" anything of our past except for all

of these songs that were running
through our heads.

“We were sitting on an island in
the Pacific and we were singing
Fernando around the campfire. And
this man called Lasse Wellabalsam
came up to us and said, “Well you
must be Abbi."

“We believed hint and we sailed
off to Melbourne, Australia, and it
was after that when we soon dis-
covered we -were not this Abba
band at all, but we don't seem to
know how to‘do anything else.”
How was Lasse’s hair?

- “Oh, it was'a bit wind-blown.
He was not looking too handsome
on that day, | can remember.”
are you bigger than Volvo?

© “T have not checked the books
of tate, but | would hope so.”
How do you continue to look so
good?

“Ht just sort of comes, to us natu-

rally. We are trying to spread this
> pood fashion sense around the

world.
“We have had some amount of
success but I must admit | do get

embarrassed when [ see someone |
“wearing straight-legged pants and

these horrible flat shoes.

“It looks a bit nerdy.”
There are pockets of resistance
everywhere. :

“You can’t run the world yours
self, You can’t control everything.”

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Which of the songs in your reper- -

toire get the biggest response?

“It changes from night to night

but overall T must say it has to be
Dancing Queen,”
The. music industry. seems . to
spawn a lot of clone bands, Elvis
impersonators and such. Are
there’ bands out there that are
copying what you do?

“LT think that's terrible, copying
other people. What is the world
coming to?”

Is: there. a> Bjorn Again cover
band? " .

“Oh yes, there is one in

Melbourne, Australia, £ don't know

they were called Babba. I don't
know how in the world they cante
up with that name, but thats what
they were called.”

“if they are sill going, but T think

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