Abba
Wed 4th Feb - 8:00PM
After ABBA triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, their brand of pop stormed the charts. The dancing queens split in 1983 and have so far resisted a billion-dollar offer to reform.
ABBA
Agnetha Faltskog
- Middle name: Ase
- Nickname: Anna
- 5’ 7¾ ” (1.72m)
Spouse
- Bjorn Ulvaeus (6 July 1971 – 9 June 1980, divorced)
- Two children: Linda Ulvaeus (born 23 February 1973) and Peter Christian Ulvaeus (born 4 December 1977).
Spouse
- Tomas Sonnenfeld (15 December 1990 – 1993, divorced)
- 1968 – “I Was So in Love” album went to number one on the Swedish charts.
- VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll ranked her number 70.
- Is afraid of flying.
- Split up with Bjorn Ulvaeus in autumn 1978.
- Grandmother of Tilda Frida Eliza Ulvaeus-Ekengren (born 27 January 2001 to daughter Linda Ulvaeus and boyfriend, Jens Ekengren).
- April 2002 – recorded new solo album in Sweden.
- March 2004 – released her first album in 17 years, “My Colouring Book”.
ABBA
- Estimated total sales:
Singles: 50-60 million
Albums: 40 million
Compilation albums: 50-60 million
UK: 10 million singles, 15 million albums
US: 20 million
- Songwriters Bjorn and Benny were unable to notate music on paper. Agnetha was the only band member who could do this.
- Often been spoofed by television shows, including “French & Saunders”, “Not The Nine O’Clock News”, and “Fast Forward”.
- At the height of their success, ABBA beat Volvo cars in being Sweden’s largest export.
- Paid in oil commodities for their music sales in Russia, due to an embargo on the Ruble in the late 1970s.
- Lip-synched their performance of “Chiquitita” at the Music for UNICEF Concert in 1979.
- The soundtrack of Australian film “Muriel’s Wedding” (1994) featured ABBA songs, “Waterloo”, “Dancing Queen”, “Mamma Mia”, “Fernando”, and “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do”.
- Furthering ABBA’s gay icon status, Australian film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (1994) features two drag queens performing to “Mamma Mia”.
- Reportedly turned down an offer of one billion US Dollars, to do an ABBA reunion tour, in 2002.
- In 2005, “Fernando” (1976) still held the Australian record for most weeks spent at number one (along with The Beatles “Hey Jude”).
- Not only is ABBA an acronym, it is also a palindrome and in 1975, “SOS” became the first song with a palindromic title, recorded by a group with a palindromic name, to hit the pop charts.
- Madonna sampled “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” in her single “Hung Up” (2005).
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Agnetha Faltskog
- Middle name: Ase
- Nickname: Anna
- 5’ 7¾ ” (1.72m)
Spouse
- Bjorn Ulvaeus (6 July 1971 – 9 June 1980, divorced)
- Two children: Linda Ulvaeus (born 23 February 1973) and Peter Christian Ulvaeus (born 4 December 1977).
Spouse
- Tomas Sonnenfeld (15 December 1990 – 1993, divorced)
- 1968 – “I Was So in Love” album went to number one on the Swedish charts.
- VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll ranked her number 70.
- Is afraid of flying.
- Split up with Bjorn Ulvaeus in autumn 1978.
- Grandmother of Tilda Frida Eliza Ulvaeus-Ekengren (born 27 January 2001 to daughter Linda Ulvaeus and boyfriend, Jens Ekengren).
- April 2002 – recorded new solo album in Sweden.
- March 2004 – released her first album in 17 years, “My Colouring Book”.
ABBA
- Estimated total sales:
Singles: 50-60 million
Albums: 40 million
Compilation albums: 50-60 million
UK: 10 million singles, 15 million albums
US: 20 million
- Songwriters Bjorn and Benny were unable to notate music on paper. Agnetha was the only band member who could do this.
- Often been spoofed by television shows, including “French & Saunders”, “Not The Nine O’Clock News”, and “Fast Forward”.
- At the height of their success, ABBA beat Volvo cars in being Sweden’s largest export.
- Paid in oil commodities for their music sales in Russia, due to an embargo on the Ruble in the late 1970s.
- Lip-synched their performance of “Chiquitita” at the Music for UNICEF Concert in 1979.
- The soundtrack of Australian film “Muriel’s Wedding” (1994) featured ABBA songs, “Waterloo”, “Dancing Queen”, “Mamma Mia”, “Fernando”, and “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do”.
- Furthering ABBA’s gay icon status, Australian film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (1994) features two drag queens performing to “Mamma Mia”.
- Reportedly turned down an offer of one billion US Dollars, to do an ABBA reunion tour, in 2002.
- In 2005, “Fernando” (1976) still held the Australian record for most weeks spent at number one (along with The Beatles “Hey Jude”).
- Not only is ABBA an acronym, it is also a palindrome and in 1975, “SOS” became the first song with a palindromic title, recorded by a group with a palindromic name, to hit the pop charts.
- Madonna sampled “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” in her single “Hung Up” (2005).
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