ABBA Forever
Who is ABBA?
ABBA According to Wikipedia
ABBA was a pop music group registered in Sweden in 1970. The band consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog. They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. The name "ABBA" is an acronym formed from the first letters of each of the group members' given names (Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid), and the group took this name officially in late 1973.. At one time, Faltskog was married to Ulvaeus, and Andersson was married to Lyngstad, but both couples divorced. ABBA is considered as one of the greatest musical groups which entertained the world in the 20th century.
ABBA gained international popularity employing catchy song hoo...
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A must have for your ABBA memorabilia !
ABBA The Scrapbook
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More ABBA
ABBA Forever
- The Official ABBA Website
- This is the official website on ABBA.
- ABBA According to Wikipedia
- Lots of interesting facts on ABBA from Wikipedia.
- ABBA Gold : Greatest Hits
- This is one of the most comprehensive compilation of ABBA's greatest hits, it came out in 1992.
The Song that launched ABBA
Waterloo at the Eurovision contest
ABBA - Waterloo 1974 Eurovision Song Contest Brighton UK
ABBA - Waterloo 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, UK LETRA (S.Anderson/B.Andersson/B.Ulvaeus) First release 1974 My my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way The history book on the shelf Is always repeating itself Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo - Promise to love you for ever more Waterloo - Couldn't escape if I wanted to Waterloo - Knowing my fate is to be with you Waterloo - Finally facing my Waterloo My my, I tried to hold you back but you were stronger Oh yeah, and now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight And how could I ever refuse I feel like I win when I lose Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo - Promise to love you for ever more Waterloo - Couldn't escape if I wanted to Waterloo - Knowing my fate is to be with you Waterloo - Finally facing my Waterloo And how could I ever refuse I feel like I win when I lose Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo - Promise to love you for ever more Waterloo - Couldn't escape if I wanted to Waterloo - Knowing my fate is to be with you Waterloo - Finally facing my Waterloo
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ABBA - A Photo Gallery
ABBA on Flickr
In The Beverly Hills - 1976.
On Location In Stockholm - 1975.
Frida, Benny, Agnetha and Bjorn
Family
Ready For A Ride
In Los Angeles, 1976 October
Let the music speak
FRIDA y AGNETHA,./ ABBA.
ABBA - the first of the Symphony on the Prairie season events at Conner Prairie
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ABBA - On YouTube
Some really priceless YouTube channels on ABBA
- ABBA Seventies
- This YouTube channel is by an ABBA enthusiast who calls himself 7ABBA7.
- ABBA LAnd
- Here's a collection of really nice ABBA songs on YouTube.
- Just ABBA
- This YouTube channel has some videos on interviews with members of ABBA.
Great Stuff from ABBA on Amazon
ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
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ABBA: Number Ones
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Dancing Queen
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The Definitive Collection
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ABBA The Scrapbook
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ABBA The Group
ABBA according to the official website
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad
- Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, better known simply as Frida, was born November 15, 1945 in Ballangen outside of Narvik, Norway. Her father was Alfred Haase, a German soldier, and her mother, Synni Lyngstad, was a Norwegian teenage girl
- Björn Ulvaeus
- Björn Kristian Ulvaeus was born in Gothenburg on April 25, 1945. When he was six years old the family moved to the small town of Västervik, and this is where Björn grew up.
- Benny Andersson
- Göran Bror Benny Andersson was born December 16, 1946 in Stockholm, and spent much of his youth in the suburb of Vällingby. Music entered Benny's life when he was very young. At the age of six he got his first accordion and started playing together with his father Gösta and his grandfather Efraim.
- Agnetha Fältskog
- Agnetha Åse Fältskog was born on April 5, 1950 in the town of Jönköping in Sweden. Music came to Agnetha early in life: at the age of six she wrote her first song, 'Två små troll' ("Two Little Trolls").
ABBA The Group - Wikipedia
Here's more information about the members of ABBA
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad
- Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad on November 15, 1945 in Bjørkåsen near Narvik, Norway), is a singer, best known as Frida Lyngstad, one of the four members of Swedish pop group ABBA.
- Benny Andersson
- Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born in Stockholm, Sweden on December 16, 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. Currently active with his own band Benny Anderssons Orkester (BAO!), and co-producing forthcoming film Mamma Mia!.
- Björn Ulvaeus
- Björn Kristian Ulvaeus (born April 25, 1945) is a Swedish musician and composer, most notable as a member of pop group ABBA.
- Agnetha Fältskog
- Agnetha Åse Fältskog (born 5 April 1950(1950-04-05) in Jönköping) is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and producer, most notable for being a member of the popular Swedish pop group ABBA.
My Favourite ABBA Music Playlist
Available on YouTube
- ABBA Music Playlist
- Click this link to go to my ABBA music playlist on YouTube.
- YouTube Channels with ABBA
- This is the entire list of YouTube channels which feature ABBA.
Photos of ABBA
Previously unseen photos of members of ABBA
- ABBA Photos (Swedish)
- Here's another website with loads and loads of photos on ABBA. The website is in Swedish (I think). If you are looking for photos, this site has a very large collection.
- Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad
- A very nice website dedicated to Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, complete with never before seen photos.
- ABBA Photo Galleries Round the World
- This website is a set of links to many other websites featuring photos and pictures of ABBA.
- ABBA Pictures Blog
- A blog on blogger that has many interesting and rare pictures of ABBA. The blogger must have spent a lot of time collecting these photos.
The Beautiful Voice of Agnetha
This is a very old Swedish video, but her voice is truly clear
Queen Agnetha Of ABBA - 'En Stilla Flirt'
(Agnetha & Sten Nilsson 1969) En Stilla Flirt This TV-Special was recorded in 1969. At the beginning on the video her name was spelled Agneta; because the Queen added the h later herself (more international than without h). The TV-Special was recorded on the place and time where Queen Agnetha come first time together with Björn (Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus only became romantically involved while filming a Swedish TV special together in March 1969). She was 19 years old, and this is one of the oldest, complete TV-Agnetharecordings ever. Because this excuse the bad quality. Prior to ABBA, Queen Agnetha was a successful solo artist in Sweden with several chart singles and best-selling albums. As she has stated in an interview, the songs she sings are "very romantic", and the melodies for these songs are usually "pretty and catchy": some of these were favourites for couples in the summer "song parks" where they "would hold hands" as she sang "If these tears were gold". At the age of fifteen, she joined a local dance band as a vocalist. Soon afterwards she wrote a song called "Jag var så kär" (I Was So in Love) that became a number one hit in Sweden in 1967. Other hit singles and albums with most of the music self-penned followed, and she established herself as one of the most popular female singers in Sweden at the time. The Queen also released several singles in German and worked in West Berlin for a few months in 1968 with the German songwriter Dieter Zimmermann to whom she was unfortunately briefly engaged. Lyrics: Varför försaka en enda liten stilla flirt Stunden kommer kanske aldrig tillbaka Varför försaka en enda liten hemlig kyss Kyssen kommer kanske aldrig tillbaka Tag vad som bjuds när du får någonting Erfarenheten den kostar dig ingenting Varför försaka en enda liten stilla flirt Stunden kommer kanske aldrig tillbaka Tag vad som bjuds när du får någonting Erfarenheten den kostar dig ingenting Varför försaka en enda liten stilla flirt Stunden kommer kanske aldrig tillbaka
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An Interview with Benny (in Swedish)
Here you see Benny in recent days
Benny Andersson Interview aug.7th 2007
Interview with Benny Andersson - aug.7th 2007 Ållsang På Skansen
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Final curtains for ABBA
The last great hit from ABBA (also my favourite)
ABBA - Thank You For The Music
ABBA cantando Thank You For The Music
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Mamma Mia!
The Mamma Mia! story on Wikipedia
Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. It was an early example of the jukebox musical genre and helped to popularize the form. Although the title of the musical is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper Mamma Mia, the plot is fictional, not biographical.
Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, who composed the original music for ABBA, were involved in the development of the show from the beginning. Anni-Frid Lyngstad has been involved financially in the production, while Agnetha Fältskog has not, though she was present at the Swedish premiere and final show.
The musical includes such hits as "Super Trouper", "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Take A Chance On Me", "Thank You for the Music", "Money, Money, Money", "The Winner Takes It All", "Voulez Vous", "I Have a Dream" and "SOS". It had been seen by over ten million people worldwide as of July 2003. Estimates in 2007 bring the number to 30 million. Since its opening in 1999, the production has grossed US $2.0 billion in earnings. [http://www.canada.com/cityguides/montreal/story.html?id=806d88ca-fa20-4c48-8051-197db9e56b0f&k=87439&p=2 Mamma Mia! is the world's most successful musical ever]
A stage-to-film adaptation, Mamma Mia! The Movie, starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters was released in July 2008.
ABBA on Squidoo
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Judging by the number of Squidoo lens dedicated to ABBA, seems that there are many ABBA fans out there.
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Abba's Abba Gold (Thirty Three and a Third series)
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ABBA Thank You For The Music
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Abba: The Complete Guide to Their Music
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Hi Chris. Great work, everyone likes a good dose of Abba (those old enough to remember anyway - lol).
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Dav1d0 wrote...
Actually I don't listen that style of music like ABBA, but this lense has a big base information about this legendary band and it was really interestin to read. Respect and 5 stars
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