Posted on 11/04/2012 9:19:48 AM PST by Stoat
Bjorn-again Christian cursed ABBA star over money, money, money
AN Irish priest who claims Abba owe him money for a gig 33 years ago says he put a curse on the band’s singer — and turned her into a hermit.
Fr Ray Hannon, 76, from Finglas in Dublin, believes the Swedish supergroup failed to pay his children’s choir £800 for a 1979 concert.
He was so furious he put a curse on Agnetha Faltskog who soon became a virtual recluse on her remote island.
Fr Hannon, who has also performed on the Late Late Show, said: “I set up the Rising Star Club in East Wall when I was there years ago and we were selected to play with Abba in the RDS.
“It was an honour for us and they agreed to pay us a substantial sum of money. After the concert I was told the money would be in the post, but it never came.
Recluse “I would have accepted £80 to play but the way they behaved was a disgrace. I was standing beside Agnetha that night and she looked a very sorrowful woman.
“There was another woman sitting on her husband Bjorn’s knee and it was the night their marriage ended.
“Ever since then she has been a recluse and lived a troubled life. That’s the curse of Fr Ray Hannon. Don’t get on my bad side.”
Fr Hannon said his unique hex has made life a misery for a number of other people who have run afoul of the cursing cleric.
The priest — who branded former President Mary McAleese a “cherry-picking a la carte Catholic” in 1997 — made headlines last year too when put a death notice for a DOG in a newspaper.
He shelled out €313 for the unusual obituary after travelling to see his sister’s Border collie, Peppee, up to eight times a day for ten years.
The devoted 76-year-old cleric nursed the pet with Whiskey and poitin as it struggled with arthritis, viruses and cancer.
Abba shot to fame when they won the 1974 Eurovision song contest with Waterloo, and their enduringly popular string of worldwide hits also include Mamma Mia and Money, Money, Money. The group, who sold around 370million records in total, rocked the RDS in front of thousands of fans in November 1979 as part of a giant world tour.
Fr Hannon and the Rising Star choir performed I Have A Dream on stage with the pop icons.
However, despite wowing Irish audiences, Abba split in the early 1980s after the married couples divorced.
Since then Agnetha has had a fear of crowds, noise and open spaces and hates to acknowledge her part in pop history. She is known as ‘Garbo the Second’ in Sweden — after the infamous Hollywood actress recluse. She told an interviewer that she doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t have many friends and likes to talk to her horses.
However, the curse may now be lifted after it emerged that Agnetha is preparing for a comeback and has returned to the recording studio after an absence of more than eight years.
LOL - What an odd story!
Here is my favorite ABBA video (YouTube):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ejypIv8zSA&feature=related
What a terrifying group of people.
The premise of the article that she turned he into a “hermit” with his spell is false.
Wiki gives an accurate chronology of her career, and recent appearances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnetha_F%C3%A4ltskog
She was successful on her own in music, before and after ABBA.
(BTW she was born in the area of some of my ancestors)
What's a PRIEST doing dabbling in the occult anyway?
Whatever happened to *Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you?*
What's a PRIEST doing dabbling in the occult anyway?
I'm guessing that whatever mental illness is allowing him to justify such behaviors is the same or related to the same one that causes him to focus his supposed 'hex' upon a spectacularly beautiful and talented lady who had absolutely nothing at all to do with any pecuniary complaint that his fevered mind has concocted. A pop group of ABBA's stature will have clear financial channels that they operate under, most likely managed by a massive firm and several people who do nothing but manage the group's finances. Agnetha Faltskog would never have even seen such a bill or been aware of the financial terms of whatever arrangement this 'priest' alleges. Any such arrangement made in 1979, if it did even exist, would have a clear and well-documented paper trail. This whole thing is most likely a manifestation of this 'priest's' hysteria, which is why nothing has been legally resolved with it for the past 33 years.
Whatever happened to *Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you?*
For this evil little man, such things are apparently swept by the wayside when he sees an opportunity to frighten people with his supposed magical powers. This gives his weak, corrupted soul a mechanism for self-aggrandizement, as does this silly business of shouting it all to the world via this article in The Sun.
I am left wondering why whatever church he is affiliated with has not revoked his position and standing with them. I hardly think that any reputable organization, much less any reputable religious one, would be comfortable having an obviously deranged individual casting hexes on people and then bragging about what he's done to the entire planet. Something's very wrong here.
I don’t suppose this guy has ever played the White House in the last four years, eh?
Given the current state of the 0bama campaign, maybe he has.
Clearly. I'm of one mind with you on that.
I am ridiculous ABBA fan and have been since the 70’s. It still blows my mind that she (Frida) was the bastard child of a Nazi soldier in Norway, mother and Grandmother escaped to Sweden when she was a baby to avoid violence against her a baby for revenge on the Nazi’s and ended become a German Princess (by marriage) after divorcing the guy from Abba. Oh, and let’s not forget the whole belonged to a massively and hugely successful pop group.
What a freaking life!
Which Witch Doctor?--The Vogues
Anyway, here's a song for "Father" Hannon:
I Put a Spell On You--Screamin' Jay Hawkins
When I was working at a public library, books on witchcraft and magic (sorcery, not Houdini-style prestidigitation, which is classified under "magic tricks") were among the ones most stolen.
From what I know of modern witchcraft (which isn't saying much, granted) such an act is supposed to "bounce back", as it were, on the perpetrator threefold.
Not that I believe in that sort of Karmic silliness, myself.
I know there’s something going on.......
One of Phil Collins’ best drum beats...ever.
Neither Agnetha nor Ann-Frid look anything other than plain to me — Agnetha’s face was blech. Perhaps I’m spending too much time in Poland :) Pretty women here...
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