Ola Brunkert, a former drummer and session musician with the Swedish band ABBA has been found dead in Spain. Authorities have indicated the the death appears accidental. Brunkert's first song with ABBA was their first single, People Need Love. He appeared on all of their albums.
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- Daily Mail: ABBA Drummer Found Dead in Majorca Home with His Throat Cut (March 17, 2008)
- "Ola Brunkert had been a jazz drummer and also a member of the blues band Slim's Blues Gang, before joining the pop group Science Poption in the mid-1960s. Then, through working with guitarist Janne Schaffer in the jazz-pop group Opus III later in the decade, he became a session musician."
- Telegraph: ABBA Drummer Ola Brunkert Found Dead with Throat Cut in Spain (March 17, 2008)
- Time Online: ABBA Drummer Ola Brunkert Bleeds to Death in Majorca (March 17, 2008)