BACK TO VIGGSÖ

A picture gallery about ABBA's holiday island.
Stockholm's archipelago contains over 24,000 islands. Viggsö is one of them.
Both ABBA couples and Stikkan Anderson bought a house on the island in the early 1970s. The three families spent every free moment in between promotion tours and studio sessions to relax and to work on new songs.
The fist Viggsö composing sessions took place late 1972. Björn and Benny had received an invitation to write an entry for the Swedish melodifestivalen. "Ring Ring" was written with piano and guitar in the tiny cottage on the island.

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The famous summer cottage where Benny & Björn composed a lot of hits like "Fernando", "Dancing Queen" and "Thank You For The Music". ABBA was filmed on Viggsö for the TV special 1976 "ABBA Dabba Do" and ABBA The Movie.

  

    

    

    

    

    

Bjorn returns to Viggsö for the documentary "The Winner Takes It All" (1999).
The cottage hasn't changed much. The piano is still there and ready to be played by Benny's magic fingers.

     

    

    

    

    

    

    

   

    


Cruiseship Rhapsody near Viggsö


The 'Krut' passing the island


Viggsö in February 2007


In 2005 Björn and wife Lena bought this summer house on Viggsö.

Tourist information about Grinda, the popular island located east of Viggsö, at http://www.grindawardshus.se/