Spanish police find body of former ABBA drummer; foul play not suspected
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MADRID, Spain – A former drummer for the Swedish pop band ABBA was found dead with cuts to his neck in the garden of his house on the Spanish island of Mallorca but police said Monday an autopsy showed it was an accident.
A neighbour found the body of Ola Brunkert on Sunday evening at his house in a coastal area outside the eastern town of Arta, a Civil Guard spokesman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
He said an autopsy was carried out and confirmed initial investigations. “It was an accident,” he said.
The spokesman said Brunkert hit his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself on the neck. He managed to wrap a towel around his neck and left the house to seek help but collapsed in the garden.
Brunkert lived in the coastal apartment complex of Betlem in the municipality of Arta, in the eastern part of Mallorca.
Brunkert had lived in Arta for around 20 years. His wife Inger died less than a year ago, said an Arta municipal official.
ABBA band member Benny Anderson told the Swedish daily newspaper Expressen that he was sad to hear of the drummer’s death. “It is tragic,” he said.
Band member Bjorn Ulvaeus added that Brunkert had been “one of the best.”
“I remember him as a good friend when we worked together in the mid-1970s. He was a very creative musician who contributed a lot when we toured together and worked in the studio,” Ulvaeus told Expressen.
According to ABBA’s official website, Brunkert and bass player Rutger Gunnarsson were the only musicians to appear on all ABBA albums.
Brunkert, who was 62, first played with ABBA on the group’s first single, “People Need Love,” and toured with the band in’77,’79 and’80.
He had been a jazz drummer and a member of the blues band Slim’s Blues Gang, before joining pop group Science Poption in the mid-1960s.
ABBA, with the four regular members Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Ulvaeus and Andersson, was one of the world’s most successful bands, with album sales of more than 370 million. The group has not performed together since’82, but continues to sell nearly three million records a year.
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