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At 79, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus Finally Admits What Fans Have Suspected For Years
For five decades, ABBA fans have looked at Björn Ulvaeus and seen the quiet, quick-witted mastermind behind some of pop music’s most iconic love songs. But only now, at 79, weeks before his 80th birthday, the Swedish legend is pulling back the curtain on the quiet truth fans long guessed he was hiding: even a man who wrote Dancing Queen and The Winner Takes It All can still be brave enough to take a second chance on love, no matter what the world says about his age.
Björn’s new life has raised eyebrows across fan communities ever since he tied the knot with music executive Christina Sas, 52, in a small Copenhagen ceremony last September, after two years of dating. The pair first crossed paths in 2021, when Sas joined the team launching ABBA’s long-awaited final album Voyage. For Björn, it was love at first sight – but that spark came with a side of self-doubt that fans would recognize from the raw, vulnerable emotion that made ABBA’s ballads feel like personal diary entries. In a bombshell new interview with The Times, he opened up about the internal conflict that stopped him from acting on his feelings for months: “Immediately I had severe problems with myself and the age difference. When a man or a woman meets someone much younger and falls in love they think, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’”
That hesitation isn’t just a personal quirk – it’s the exact kind of unspoken fear fans have long suspected held many of ABBA’s members back from rebuilding their lives after their first marriages fell apart. Björn was first married to his bandmate Agnetha Fältskog, their on-stage romance turning to off-screen heartbreak after nine years, before spending 41 years with his second wife Lena Källersjö. By the time he met Christina, Björn had built a life as a global icon, a grandfather of four, and a public figure who spent decades being defined by the ABBA narrative fans had grown to love. The idea of stepping outside that narrative, of embracing a new love that defied societal expectations of what a 79-year-old pop legend “should” do, felt almost impossible.
In the end, he chose to follow the same adventurous spirit that led ABBA to risk everything on the groundbreaking Voyage avatar concert in London, a show that redefined live music and proved the group could still reinvent themselves decades after their peak. “I just gave up. I decided, ‘It’s up to her – if she wants to live with someone older and we love each other…,’” he shared. “Age doesn’t come between us now – we rarely even talk about it.” For fans who have followed Björn’s journey since ABBA won Eurovision in 1974, that admission isn’t just a juicy celebrity reveal: it’s a reminder that the same courage that made ABBA’s music immortal is the same courage that lets their members keep growing, loving, and surprising the world long after the final encore.