Was there a ‘Pete Best’ in ABBA? Indeed there was – well, actually, more of a ‘Jimmie Nicol’.* Inger Brundin is her name – she replaced Agnetha for a tour of Austria and Germany in 1973 and did a few TV shows with the gang. Here’s one, with a happy message.
* I’m sure you all know this, but just in case: Jimmie Nicol replaced Ringo for eight shows in a world tour in 1964 and too years to recover from the experience. I wonder what Inger did next? Maybe our friends in the frosty north, Locust and Fatz, will know…
Speaking of Pete Best – I recently was informed that Pete Best got 2,5 million pounds »performance royalties« for the few tracks he played on in »Anthology 1«.
One always forgets what sums they’re talking about when it comes to these enormous sellers. As Noel Gallagher once said when questioned about a Oasis reunion, »Bonehead is a very wealthy man…«
Pete said it was a considerable amount but less than a million
Fascinating post. I think the Kinks, Mamas and Papas, also had replacements. Also the Bee Gees replaced Robin briefly with a guy called Pete and then with their sister Linda for a Talk of the town appearance. Also the Who in the 60s considered replacing Roger.
Found it – Mick Grace replaced Ray Davies in the Kinks for a tour in Belgium. He’s the left handed guitarist in the Cockneys. And the Bee Gees’s sister Lesley Gibb appeared with them at the Talk of the Town.
Paxton Whitehead was the Jimmie Nicol of Beyond the Fringe, replacing Jonathan Miller on the Broadway run in 1964. He did a bloody good job too – in fact he actually bests Miller in the Shakespeare sketch (Get thee to Gloucester, Essex etc.)
Did a memorable turn as the Cranes’ ex-headmaster in Frasier thirty years later.
Who knew?
Moose knew.
Regarding the OP:
Apparently (according to Swedish wiki) Inger was a Christian singer and married a pastor.
She’s clearly miming in the clip, you can hear Agnetha’s voice. There’s a discography on wiki, but unclear if it’s albums or singles.
Did ABBA always yodel in the outro of that song or did they add that for German audiences?? I can’t recall ever hearing it before, sounds like Snow White in the Disney film. But ABBA is not my specialist subject!
Did she have any kind of singing career after the ABBA experience, Loki?
And is yodelling not used in Sweden to lure trolls out of forests?
Well, I’d never heard of her before today, so I’m guessing her singing career was mainly on the church circuit! She died in her early 40s, so that didn’t help, I suppose.
Swedes do not yodel. But we do this, to communicate with the cows (as you do):
No Ulster farmer ever sounded that mystical and melodious!
But I’d love to hear him try! 😀
Swedes do this on purpose. This woman is the Swedish equivalent of one of those mohicanned punks who used to hang around Leicester Square posing for tourists – I suspect some kind of sponsorship by the GLC was involved.
“No, this is completely spontaneous, we’re just like this all the time”
I’m reading David Kynaston’s latest book covering the UK in 1963-65 and it turns out that Blue Peter had its own Pete Best, or maybe that should be Petra Best.
Apparently, the first Blue Peter pet was the puppy Petra in 1962. It seems the original puppy snuff- er, I mean went to live on a farm upstate with an elderly couple. Apparently they then brought in a new one without telling the kids.
The thing is, I’m starting to suspect they did this switch more than once. I remember Petra, or at least a Petra, when I started watching it around 1978 or so. It can’t have been the same one surely?
This is where they got the idea for the regenerations in Doctor Who.
My favourite Petra was the late 70s one with the scarf.
K-9 was like, “Am I a joke to you?”
It was the same Petra – lived to quite a grand old age but 1978 does seem late. She died earlier than that. Maybe Peter Purves was still banging on about her, mourning and wailing when he should have been making a Christmas candelabra out of coat hangers.
The Blue Peter pets Wikipedia page says that Petra died in 1977 so I was close.
It also says – get this- that when John Noakes left Blue Peter he took Shep with him, but when the BBC refused to pay for his upkeep he gave him away to someone else! Not only that, but afterwards he did an ad for a dog food company where he posed with a Shep lookalike…
God almighty.
I’m sorry if I’ve ruined your weekend.
Get down, Skip!
Yes I remember him with a dog called Skip in those ads. According to the internet he carried on filming Go With Noakes with Shep – so I suppose he wasn’t Shep’s official owner at the time.
Go With Noakes had frequent comedic moments – such as becoming hopelessly lost somewhere remote. As night falls, we see the silhouettes of him and Shep in a tent earnestly studying a map with Noakes “arguing” with Shep over where they went wrong and the route for tomorrow.