“It was a mixture of what I felt and what Björn felt but also what Benny and Frida went through.”
Björn and Agnetha divorced in 1979, while Benny and Frida announced their divorce two years later, in 1981.
While each member was focussing on other work, such as solo careers and songwriting, their marriages are believed to be the reason the band could not continue together, though for Björn and Agnetha, both have said their split was fairly “amicable.”
Speaking about the band’s split, Benny said in 2017: “Things were happening in real life too, not just in [our] working life.