Lasse Wellander, Longtime ABBA Guitarist, Dies at 70

Lasse Wellander, the soft-spoken musician who played guitar on many of ABBA’s most well-known tracks, toured with the Swedish supergroup for years, and helped create the Mamma Mia! soundtrack, died Friday, according to his family.

“It is with indescribable sadness that we have to announce that our beloved Lasse has fallen asleep,” a Sunday statement posted to the Swede’s Facebook page read. “Lasse recently fell ill in what turned out to be disseminated cancer and early on Good Friday he passed away, surrounded by his loved ones.”

Calling him an “amazing” and “humble” musician, the post also memorialized Wellander as a “wonderful husband, father, brother, uncle and grandfather,” concluding that he had been a “hub in our lives, and it's unbelievable that we now have to live on without you.”

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