Lasse Wellander, the musician who long served as the guitarist for iconic pop group ABBA, has died at 70.
Wellander died Friday after a cancer diagnosis, his family said Sunday. The Swedish musician played on ABBA’s major albums, toured with the globally recognized quartet in the late 1970s and was involved in their recent Grammy-nominated “Voyage” album.
“It is with indescribable sadness that we have to announce that our beloved Lasse has fallen asleep. Lasse recently fell ill in what turned out to be spread cancer and early on Good Friday he passed away, surrounded by his loved ones,” the family wrote on his official Facebook page.
