Stig Anderson

b. Stikkan Erik Leopold Anderson, 25 January 1931, Hova, Sweden, d. 12 Sept 1997. Anderson accomplished fame because the supervisor of Abba, the Swedish pop group who dominated the graphs through the entire 70s. Anderson originally proved helpful as a principal school teacher, but additionally performed using the wonderfully called Stig Anderson And His Mashed Creampuffs in a short attempt at pop stardom. His true talent lay down in songwriting, nevertheless, and it had been with comic strikes such as for example ‘The Young ladies Who Know ARE LOCATED In The Nation’ and ‘Rockin’ Billy’ (popular in Scandinavia and Holland for Lill-Babs) that Anderson produced his name. In addition to establishing the Sweden Music firm to create his music, he produced Polar Music with studio room engineer Bengt Bernhag, and attained early success using the Hootenanny Performers, a Swedish folk group offering Björn Ulvaeus. When Ulvaeus eventually befriended Benny Andersson from the Hep Superstars, it had been Stig Anderson who initial persuaded the duo to create together, before appealing them both to become companions in Polar Music pursuing Bernhag’s suicide. Determined that Abba should earn the Eurovision Tune Contest, Anderson recommended the name ‘Waterloo’ for just one of their tracks. The group duly earned the 1974 competition, and from that time onwards became a larger and bigger sensation, with Anderson keeping a good control on what would ultimately end up being Sweden’s second most rewarding business (after car producer Volvo). He also continuing to supply lyrics for the Andersson/Ulvaeus songwriting relationship. By the first 80s, nevertheless, Anderson’s attempts to lessen the group’s taxes burden had resulted in some questionable businesses, including coping in essential oil, and prompted a taxes investigation that nearly place Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog in prison. Because of this, they sued Anderson for unpaid royalties and finished their hugely effective business collaboration with him. Anderson continued to market Polar Music to PolyGram Information in 1989, in the height from the Abba nostalgia revival. Exactly the same 12 months, he also setup the Polar Music reward with the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, granted to 1 pop and something classical musician each year. One of is own last collaborations before his loss of life was with manufacturer Tony Calder and Andrew Loog Oldham on Abba: The Name Of THE OVERALL GAME, an entertaining appear behind the moments from the Abba phenomenon.