So we all went out to a club together one night. … At the time, Benny was still married to Frida. “He gave me a guitar, which was very sweet.

“I met Bjorn when I was setting up,” Page added. “We had a chat and they said they’d be generous with studio time. “The studio was only known for ABBA, and they wanted an internationally known rock group to record there,” Page told Classic Rock in 2015. Page later confirmed at least part of the story, while discussing ABBA's personal invitation for Led Zeppelin to record In Through the Out Door at their Polar Studios. Watch Robert Plant Reveal Sex Club Visit with ABBA Members Andersson was then ABBA bandmate Anni-Frid Lyngstad's husband, while Ulveus and Frida’s co-singer Agnetha Faltskog were also married. By this point, he had cleaned up his act following the 1977 death of young son Karak. Plant didn’t go so far as to suggest they’d partaken in anything other than booze. “You remember that, Benny and Bjorn?” Plant asks, with a wagging finger.

The interviewer exclaims, “Now you’re just lying!” Plant replies: “I swear! It was called a sex club.” He said the Abba duo would “substantiate” his story if they were invited onto the show, then turned to the camera. And ladies and men started going to sleep together, while we were having a drinkie-winkie with Benny and Bjorn.” … People seemed to want to go to sleep very early when we got to them, because they immediately got out a circular mattress with a zip down the middle. There were some very nice clubs here in Stockholm then. “Jimmy Page and myself, we went out with Benny and Bjorn most nights. “Now, I used to know Benny and Bjorn very well,” Plant also tells her in the clip below.

He was certainly in an impish mood, suggesting that he was “very active” as a young man and liked to “work out in cheap motels.” Plant also referred to the game of tennis as “another excuse for wife-swapping,” and invited the female interviewer to “join me” inside a small hat.

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