Stig Anderson

Stikkan Anderson ( born January 25, 1931 in Hova, Västergötland as Stig Erik Leopold Andersson, † September 12, 1997 in Stockholm) was a Swedish businessman, producer, music publisher and librettist. His original profession was teacher.

Life

Stikkan Anderson came in 1931 as the only child of unmarried kiosk owner ester Andersson world. During his studies he met fellow student Gudrun Rystedt 1949, with whom he became engaged in 1951. They married in the summer of 1955 from the marriage produced three children: .. Marie 1957, 1958, and Lars Anders 1966 Marie married in 1983 the Swedish pop singer Tomas Ledin.

Anderson was founder of the Polar Music Prize, founder of the company Sweden Music ( 1960), Polar Music (1963 ) and other companies and was a partner at the Polar Music Studios in Stockholm.

Well-known and successful he was as a manager of the Swedish pop group mainly ABBA. He took with Polar Music the end of the 1960s, initially the ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad in 1972 and 1976 Agnetha Faltskog finally under contract, which was bound to December 1975, exclusively at Cupol records. He also wrote some of the early lyrics of ABBA.

Anderson was always the clever, but also authoritarian and dominant figure behind ABBA, which ruthlessly counterparties represented his commercial interests and also on the part of its employees, allowed the members of ABBA, little opposition and ultimately even sought his own advantage in their contracts. On the other hand, he behaved towards contractors who loyally behaved in the difficult early years of Polar Music, for years to come just as loyal and favored them, which he otherwise sometimes, more promising contract deals turned down.

He was a partner and managed at the same time also the myriad capital investment companies, investments and deposits of the huge financial revenue of the braid Polar Music ABBA. He was finally mid -80s also partly responsible for the loss of a substantial part of ABBA 's assets by poor management, bad investments, high tax claims and false borrowings. Cooperation between the ABBA members Fältskog, Andersson and Ulvaeus Stig Anderson was terminated Largely eventually, as it turned out in the context of dealing with this financial disaster that Anderson had also cheated for years to royalties in the amount of 4.5 million euros, and Lawyers were turned on. An already at the Stockholm District Court filed by Agnetha company " Agnetha Fältskog Production AB " and Bennys company " Mono Music AB ", as well as a Björns rights held Wealthy Dutch company lawsuit against Stig Anderson was, as this is a complete disclosure of the financial activities of all those involved with would have brought, ultimately withdrawn and terminated the matter by a compromise settlement.

1990 Polar Music Anderson sold with almost all recovery and licensing rights to the brand ABBA for an undisclosed sum of money to the media company Polygram.

He died in the summer of 1997 of heart failure. Agnetha Fältskog Besides, who was ill at the time, all the former ABBA members attended the funeral.

On May 7, was released in 2007 exclusively in Sweden, the double CD Text: Stikkan Anderson with 43 ​​titles, Stig Anderson either composed or to which he has written the text. Among the artists represented on the CD includes many stars of the Swedish music scene like Monica Zetterlund, Siw Malmkvist, Lill Lindfors, Lill- Babs, Harry Brandelius or ABBA ( solo and as a group).

  • Music Publishers
  • ABBA
  • Author of a winner 's contribution to the Euro Vision Song Contest
  • Swede
  • Born in 1931
  • Died in 1997
  • Man
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