Lasse Wellander, ABBA’s go-to guitarist across decades of hits, died at age 70 on April 7 due to cancer. He was 70. The news was confirmed in a statement on Wellander’s official Facebook page…
’s go-to guitarist across decades of hits, died at age 70 on April 7 due to cancer. He was 70. The news was confirmed in a statement on Wellander’s official Facebook page over the weekend.
ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Frida Lyngstad and Benny Andersson also paid their respects with a statement on Instagram. Wellander was born in 1952 and grew up in a small village called Skrekarhyttan in Sweden. His first experience in the music biz dates back to the late ’60s, when an ambitious 16-year-old Wellander joined the band Peps & Blues Quality, which later became Nature with Mats Ronander as its lead singer and harmonica player. Nature also served as a supporting band for other acts at the time including Pugh Rogefeldt, Göran Fristorp, Ulf Lundell and Gärdestad.
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