apparently he does remember the clothes. the one part you'd wanna forget.

A decades old Swedish summer tradition is a daily radio show on the national public radio where someone is given an hour and a half to tell whatever stories they want, and play whatever music they want. When interesting people make good use of their time and it's great radio.

On Sunday I heard Björn Ulvaeus's show. He is one of the Bs that helped make up ABBA, and it's him on the right there, in the dark suit.

Björn Ulvaeus spent his hour and a half talking about his lack of 'situation memory'. Apparently he doesn't remember many of the things that ABBA did. He said he doesn't even remember things that pretty much everybody else on the face of the earth remember, if they were born at the time.

Startling, huh?

In sensitive Scandinavian mode Björn examined possible reasons. He referred to discussions he had had with psycho therapists, and sessions he had had with hypnotists. In the end, his conclusion was that the reason he doesn't remember is that he never really felt it was him who did the different things. He has, he told us, a really weak sense of self.

Imagine that. Enourmously successful, self revealing, sensitive. No sense of self. And then the punch line: I am a perfect example of how you don't need self esteam to become successful.