February 17, 2014

"In my honest opinion we looked like nuts in those years. Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were."

Writes Björn Ulvaeus of Abba, explaining that a motivation for the costumery was that they wanted the cost of the clothes to be tax deductible and that meant that they'd need the Swedish government to accept that their assertion that these things were not also usable as street clothes.

And this was in the 1970s, the decade when people wore the strangest clothes.

6 comments:

madAsHell said...

So, how do we explain Kiss?

Levi Starks said...

That's ridiculous,
People in all those scandinavian countries love paying high taxes......

Bob R said...

An explanation, not an excuse.

DKWalser said...

(Mostly liberal) People say that taxes don't affect behavior. That belief doesn't comport with my experience. Thanks for another example.

Sam L. said...

Well, I liked the vimmen in tight bright pants and short shorts.

zefal said...

DKWalser said...(Mostly liberal) People say that taxes don't affect behavior. That belief doesn't comport with my experience. Thanks for another example.

I'd like to see warren buffett's tax returns before the 1986 tax overhaul. I'll guarantee you he jumped through more loopholes than Siegfried & Roy's lions & tigers jumped through hula-hoops during that time.