“Can it be that in 1990, people will remember the ’60s as so sweet? When Stockholm’s inner city was being torn down? When we lived with oldfashioned morality?” The song was Ljuva Sextital (Sweet Sixties), a hit in 1969 for Brita Borg, a Swedish songstress with a deep voice.
Composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, it was their first hit together. The lyrics were written by Stikkan Anderson, a record company boss who had recently become their manager. ‘Sweet Sixties’ was at once happy and sad, lightweight and serious. Andersson/Ulvaeus would write many more complex and multi-layered hits
