At 79, Benny still sits down at his piano every day and tries to create music.

The man who helped write classics including “Dancing Queen,” “Mamma Mia,” “Waterloo” and “The Winner Takes It All” has admitted that inspiration doesn’t arrive as easily as it once did.

Benny has compared songwriting to waiting for a dragon to emerge from a cave. Anyone can write a bad song quickly, he explained, but finding something truly special can require hours, days or even weeks of patience.

And remarkably, he’s still waiting for those moments.

Benny says he’ll sometimes sit at the piano, play something he’s never heard before and suddenly realize he likes it.

That’s when the old magic returns.

ABBA’s original recording years may be long behind them, but the bond between the four members hasn’t completely disappeared either.

Anni-Frid Lyngstad has confirmed that Benny, Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog and herself remain friends despite their lives taking different paths.

For longtime fans, there’s something fitting about Benny’s life today.

The stages are different. The years have passed. The four young Swedish musicians who conquered the world are now music legends.

But somewhere, Benny Andersson is still sitting at his piano, searching for another melody.

The music never really left him.