ally77 said on November 2, 2003 19:51:

The Kinks, The Beatles!

Yashar said on November 3, 2003 10:34:

Norah Jones

Santi said on November 3, 2003 20:51:

The first concert he went to (according to what he said some day) was one of “The Hep Stars”, in which the ABBA members started, I think.

ChrisWilliams said on November 3, 2003 23:55:

ABBA’s Benny Andersson was in the The Hep Stars, who were the “Swedish Beatles” of the 1960s. Through bad management, the group fell into severe debt, and a lot of the money Benny made from his early years with ABBA had to go back into “Hep House”, the bankrupt company owned by him and the former Hep Stars members.

I believe I read somewhere that Per said that the song he’d most like to have written was ABBA’s ’S.O.S’ (music by ABBA members Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, with lyrics by the same Björn Ulvaeus, plus their manager Stig Anderson). While I’m rambling: Europop group Edelweiss sampled S.O.S for their 1980s hit “Bring Me Edelweiss”, after getting written permission from Stig. Benny and Björn sued Stig when he claimed that the part used in Bring Me Edelweiss was written by him. More problems followed and the partnership between the now-disbanded ABBA and Stig became less over the years. Stig died in 1997, and Björn, Benny and Frida attended his funeral. Agnetha, who was unable to attend, commented that all the legal problems were “a sad and sorry end” to their working relationship with Stig.

Ingo said on November 5, 2003 17:19:

ABBA of course. In an interview with a german newspaper he tells that and names S.O.S. as his favourite ABBA song and “Super Trouper” as his favourite ABBA album.