Abba

I´ve written earlier that ABBA reminds me of Michael

They have an "in the mirror" song(not ABBA´s best song and far away from Michael´s song, but still it´s a mirror)
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They spell it Suzy not Susie
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I´think it´s the only song Benny was the lead singer in ABBA

Agnetha told a story about bugs on stage in Australia.
They were dressed in white, stage were light, spotlights were on-
She saw a big cloud with bugs coming toward them, she was a lead singer but I don´t think she said she stopped to sing, the bugs went to other places.
Benny stopped playing, he couldn´t with bugs everywhere
One little bug found it´s way inside Agnethas clothes and she turned her back to the audience and managed to get it out.
I´m not sure if it was then the admiration for Agnethas butt started ..
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When I began this thread I only wanted to post some ABBA songs but I suppose that I have experienced nostalgia.
I bought their albums and danced to their music over 30 years ago and I´ve always loved their music but I had listened more to sports than music for a long time.
I read lyrics for ABBAs songs 30 years ago but I didn´t think about it.
Now I can see there is a deeper meaning in many of them
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There have been rumours Agnetha has spent some tome in a musicstudio.
It was true.
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It was about 10 years since she released her last album, with covers,before that it was more than 15 years ago since she released an album.
Under those circumstances I think it´s very good with 348 045 views for the video just after three days.
People haven´t forgotten her.
 
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It wasn´t Agnetha who searched songs for a new album, it was the songwriters who wanted her.
When the album was ready ,songwriters and Agnetha was satisfied with it, but songwriters wanted opinion from a "guru in music".
Benny Andersson.
He listened to it and said it was the best soloalbum Agnetha had done.
"The best is yet to come"

Last year it was premiere for a new Björn and Benny song, Winter haven.
We celebrate Lucia in december every year , they record it and show it on tv too different places every year.
Last year it was in my town(we have Lucia in schools,churches etc every year but not shown on tv).
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Some people were upset after the program ,there was a rapper in one song and you can see Lucia the girl with the candles on her hair.
The first black Lucia on tv and some people didn´t like it...

Helen Sjöholm who sang winter haven had a lead role in Björn and Bennys musical "Kristina from Duvemåla".
It was bad times in Sweden,people didn´t have enough to eat and many left for USA,
Kristina left her beloved country together with her husband and children and her faith in God.
Her seventh child dies at birth and the doctor told her never to be pregnant again.
She doubts if there is a God
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One of us is crying, from their last studioalbum
 
I´ve posted the final version of " Like an angel passing through my room "earlier in this thread.
Last year 30 years after their final studioalbum they released these workingversions when they tried to figure out what sounded best
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Michael knew how his songs should sound, but perhaps not always.
I would be interested to listen to several versions he made of his songs.
 
Happy Hawai, early version of why did it have to be me.
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ABBA had four singers in the group and they had many possibilities to vary.
But without Agnethas and Fridas vocals on most of the songs it wouldn´t be the same.
 
Björn and Benny made music in a little cottage with just a piano and guitar.
They didn´t record it or wrote notes.
Most important was to bring out a melody,if they didn´t remember it then the melody wasn´t strong enough.

Their manager Stickan Andersson was called the fifth member in ABBA, he wrote lyrics for many of ABBAs songs the first years.
When ABBA won the eurovision songcontest he had everything ready(he had been in the musicbusiness for many years and had many contacts.)
He realised that ABBA couldn´t travel everywhere in a short time so he sent films with ABBA performing their songs to many places.
In Australia they thought ABBA was fake, they thought there were other ugly persons who were the real singers.

In the early 70s Björn and Benny worked as producers.
One day it came a boy 15 years old with tapes with songs he and his brother had made.
Ted Gärdestad

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Agnetha and Frida were backgroundsingers.
I think the picture at 0.30 came from an album covers, it feels sad now because that´s the way he died.
R.i.P Ted.

I don´t know if you heard about the polar music prize, but it was Stickan Andersson who founded it.
 
I wrote earlier that Frida asked Agnetha to sing duet with her in the 90s but Agnetha said no.
Another woman with a great woman said yes,Marie Fredriksson from Roxette.
The music isn´t my favorite but the voices are great
All my best years
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Frida and Marie in What a wonderful world
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Frida makes a cover on Fire and Ice
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An ABBA museum opened some weeks ago.
Björn,Benny and Frida was there but Agnetha was in London promoting her new album..and answering questions about ABBA.
It wasn´t her wish to be in London she wanted to be in Stockholm, after all ABBA has been a part of her life since the group started

Here is an early ABBA song written by Agnetha and Björn
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It was Eurovision song contest last weekend.
Björn and Benny made a special song for the opening ceremony together with Aviici
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Butterfly,flags, we are one..I felt quite Michaelish

"We Write the Story"
Musik: Benny Andersson.
Text: Björn Ulvaeus.
Processing : Avicii.

Justice and peace
And liberty
We write the story
We can fulfill
The legacy
We write the song

Welcome a new
Enlightenment
We write the story
We can recast
And reinvent
We write the song

We are humans
Born free and equal
On this mother
Lies our future
Reason and conscience
May they rule the
World one day

Justice and peace
And liberty
We write the story
We can fulfill
The legacy
We write the song

True to the ones
Who lit the light
We write the story
We have a torch

To reignite
We write the song

Welcome a new
Enlightenment
Welcome the glory
We can recast
And reinvent
We can be strong

We have a choice
In everything
We write the story
We have a voice
And words to sing
We write the song

We are humans
Born free and equal

On this mother
Lies our future
We are keepers
Reason and conscience
May they rule the
World one day

Justice and peace
And liberty
We write the story
We can fulfill
The legacy
We write the song

True to the ones
Who lit the light
We write the story
We have a torch
To reignite
We write the song

Welcome a new
Enlightenment
Welcome the glory
We can recast
And reinvent
We can be strong

We have a choice
In everything
We write the story
We have a voice
And words to sing
We write the song

Free and equal
Reason and conscience
We are humans
We are
One ......



Once I thought I heard they sang we are the world but it´s not in the lyrics at all.
After all it´s only Europe.
 
I think this is a cute video
 
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Agnetha made a solo album 1983
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Background singers are the popgroup Smokie

Take good care of your children is written by Tomas Ledin.
He sang in the choir in ABBAs world tour and he´s married to Stikkans(ABBAs former manager)daughter.
Sweden is a small country
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The name of the game..is Fia.
They are laughing but it´s a serious game.. often with some homemade rules..:smilerolleyes:
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It would be great if they make another album but I don´t think they will.
Björn said maybe if there is a very very special song..Agnetha said maybe, a special occasion to a charity.
Agnetha used to say no before.
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When ABBA got a reward for being the best Swedish pop group of all time 2010 Agnetha and Frida was there to receive the award.
Frida said it took years for her to get over it, no more ABBA but most of all She and Benny weren´t a couple anymore.
Frida left Sweden when ABBA split up and haven´t lived her since.
But she made a soloalbum in Swedish in the middle of the 90ths maybe some songs were for Benny to listen to..

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I didn´t translate all of it

November 3rd!
So began the letter
I found the day before yesterday
Will it grow as I imagined
For a familiar nightmare
A despair encloses Me
Before she got what she wanted ...
October
so sudden and chilly
When frost just defeated overnight
Maybe it was the walk
By the sea
in relentless storm
As gathered me
Fortified me, nurtured me
But she got what she wanted.

I don´t know if she suspected something before Benny asked for divorce
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Four tired, empty eyes
A charged livingroom
Two silent tense mouths
infected
resigned call
the two closed doors
None of us know why
We freeze each other out
Two broken hearts cry
relation
So well disguised
Feels now hopelessly
and passed
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who is going to hurt who
In earlier years, when we have
Loved having real glow
Be genuine relationship
Now we live in a different bedroom

without heating
Without joy
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who is going to hurt who
How long before we bleed
Who is going to hurt who
How long before we bleed
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who will offend who tonight
Whose turn to shed tears
Who is going to hurt who
To wish, to dare, to have
To live, to hope, to never die
To want, to be, to love
To hold that belief, that as a seed


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Love me forever
Don´t ever leave me

When Frida made this album she was married again to a prince.
She said she was satisfied what she had done and life just got better with years.
But then her daughter,Lise Lotte died in a caraccident.
Frida avoided journalists who wanted comments but Bennys oldest son,Peter, talked to them.

Both Benny and Frida had children before they met and Peter said they had been like a big family.
Fridas daughter had moved to the US but the year before she died she had visited Peter and his family

FRida was hit hard, she lost her daughter and the year after her prince died
 
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I went to a concert were we sang to ABBAsongs last week.
The stage is in enclosed area in a park and when I came to the park they were rehearsing and it felt really good to walk in the park and look at the flowers.
It´s this kind of concert but here the audience were perhaps 500
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It´s Nanne Grönwall who sings in the video , a song she wrote together with her husband Peter, Bennys son.
She was guest artist in the concert here and she was asked which ABBA song she thought was worst.
She said she liked them all but the man who talked said tell Benny it was good that they didn´t "put on the white sombrero" in a album.
I´m not sure but I think it was that man-he works for the radio- who said bad things about Michael so it makes me feel that song is terrific.
Children were allowed to come up to the stage and they used skipping ropes too as microphones.
For Mamma Mia all children could come up to the stage, there were some teens ,developmentally disabled,in front of the stage and Nanne went down to them and got them up to the scene.
It shows what a nice person she is.
And she said Benny was an amazing man.

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If it wasn´t for the nights
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So true, if it wasn´t for those sleepless nights

I´m not sure if this song has been released official yet.
It´s from ABBAs tour 1979.
Agnetha sings with Tomas Ledin -from the choir-I can´t hear the other members of ABBA.
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Benny Andersson and dream choir from his album 1987.

In the choir it´s some of the best female artists sweden had at that time, including Frida.
I don´t know if Benny asked Agnetha too, but she was working with an own album at that time.
Björn wrote the lyrics, so here we got ABB
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It´s one of 2 songs on the album otherwise it´s instrumental

Benny and some music from his classical album(there is one song on it , lyrics from Björn)

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Björn was out jogging when he got take a chance,take a chance in his head.It may be worthwhile to jog

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ABBAs studioengineer made something with Agnethas and Fridas voices so the singing became richer,but it sounds good when they sang live too.
Here is take a chance on me again,live this time
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It wasn´t unusual for Agnetha to play the piano, but in ABBA Benny usually took care of it.
Maybe this is the only performance with ABBA with Agnetha as a pianoplayer
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Nice video Treasure

Where were Michael and his brothers 9 january 1979?
Maybe they were touring , otherwise Michael could have sang together with ABBA, Bee Gees and many more
Enjoy a gift of song
 
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