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Do we like Benny Andersson?

Our score: 7 out of 10. No harmful words or company found and some decent public stances, but too little was readable to go higher.

Benny Andersson is the keyboard half of ABBA's songwriting engine, and a quiet one. In a 2017 chat with the Big Issue he talked about Brexit as if a mate had walked out on him, saying the UK leaving the EU felt like losing a friend. It's a gentle, human take, and it fits the picture of a bloke who tends to be warm rather than combative.

On the LGBTQ+ front, the honest answer is that ABBA's gay following is well documented, but the quotes we could read came from Björn Ulvaeus, not Benny. Ulvaeus told Gay Times that the gay community underpinned the group's comeback and that the band was proud to be chosen. We found no words from Benny himself on it, good or bad, so we can't credit him with what his bandmate said.

The harm check came up clean in what we could access: no slide into conspiracy theories, no campaigning against trans people or anyone else, and no dodgy company that showed up. But we should be straight that several pages were blocked on our end, so this is an absence of evidence in a limited read, not a full clearance.

The recent thing is political, and it points the right way for this page. Swedish election-day coverage reported that he played piano at the Social Democrats' event and led a rewritten Mamma Mia for their leader Magdalena Andersson. Whatever you think of the party, backing a candidate openly with your own act is a long way from anything harmful.

We didn't find a court record, a lawsuit or any allegation against him in the pages we could read, and nothing about mistreating staff or bandmates. We also didn't find a headline charity story we could verify, so the good-person pass rests on a clean file rather than a long list of good deeds. Fair warning that the file is short.