As one quarter of Swedish supergroup Abba, he revolutionised pop music in the 1970s, with the band’s songs featuring prominently in 2008 smash film Mamma Mia!
But Benny Andersson has slammed plans for the Mamma Mia! sequel, currently filming in Croatia, accusing the producers of ‘playing it safe’ by ‘making a copy’ of the original film.
The Waterloo hitmaker, 70, said although he was thrilled by the production, he also would have liked to create something completely different: ‘Universal Pictures have a great success with Mamma Mia! The Movie. Then they want to do another one… They want a copy of what they’ve already done. It’s playing it safe…
