Half A Century Of ABBA

[ElectroClaret]

Exactly 50 years ago yesterday that the Swedish supergroup won the Eurovision
song contest in Brighton with "Waterloo".
How time flies...

Are/were you a fan?

[blatherwickstattoos]

Awful music. Dancing Queen has a very nice drum break that’s about it

[Ptangyangkipperbang]

Sid Vicious was a fan

[Clovius Boofus]

Sid Vicious was a fan

John Lydon was a hippy.

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[Thejkr]

Went to Abba Voyage the other week straight after the West Ham match with a group of friends. Not really my thing but surprisingly really enjoyed it. Might have been the point we got and the number of drinks I had had by then starting in the Cow at 12:00. Mind you took the bouncer some persuading to let me in the pop up bar after the match and before Abba. He didn't believe I was going to Abba just thought I was a football fan looking for a post match beer!! He did let me in eventually and apologised when my wife and friends turned up with the tickets.

[yTib]

number one when i was born.

one could say my parents literally took a chance, took a chance, tooka tooka chance chance when deciding not to use contraception.

[yTib]

i never knew bea smith was in the sex pistols.

[burnmark]

Anyone remember the ABBA penalty shoot outs? That never took off……

[ElectroClaret]

Anyone remember the ABBA penalty shoot outs? That never took off……

That was because Benny and Bjorn were crap at penos.
But the girls were ok...

[Quicknick]

Half a century too much.

[ClaretTony]

This isn't ABBA but an ABBA song and I'm there for this filming at the Apollo in Manchester - some 32 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxCqwVXD4w4

[chekhov]

Fantastic songs. Pop music at its best.

[Clovius Boofus]

If you're a masochist - you can watch the entire 1974 Eurovision Song Contest on BBC Four this evening.

[ClaretTony]

If you're a masochist - you can watch the entire 1974 Eurovision Song Contest on BBC Four this evening.

I'll happily give that a miss

[Tricky Trevor]

Take away some cheesy lyrics, in their second language, and the music is fantastic. They even wrote some great lyrics. The Winner Takes It All and Supertrouper being up there.

[ClaretTony]

Take away some cheesy lyrics, in their second language, and the music is fantastic. They even wrote some great lyrics. The Winner Takes It All and Supertrouper being up there.

I love music but I'm no musician and when it comes to singing I'm tone deaf - but I was once told by someone who did sing, and semi-pro too, that ABBA songs were so good and had such a range that they were very difficult to sing.

[louieollie]

Horrendous cabaret band that's fooled too many for too long

[dougcollins]

Top musicians and clever songwriters.

[Terry Cochrane]

Raking it in with the Abba Voyage show every night in Stratford. They will sell on the technology so that we can watch the Beatles and Led Zepp perform in the future.

More Abba stuff to come when the actual ESC comes from Malmo next month.

[JanetM]

No. Mr M is but I don't tell my friends.

[bfcjg]

Some timeless classics ,brilliant melodies and poignant lyrics, I don't like all their stuff but to be still relevant after 50 years shows they had something special.

[boatshed bill]

Awful music, just awful.

[LoveCurryPies]

Lovely, catchy pop music.

However, not in the same league as Springsteen, Bowie, Gaye, Bolan, Gabriel, Franklin, Presley, Jackson, Jagger, etc.

[timshorts]

Lovely, catchy pop music.

However, not in the same league as Springsteen, Bowie, Gaye, Bolan, Gabriel, Franklin, Presley, Jackson, Jagger, etc.

Or Mans Zermalow come to that if we are sticking to Swedish eurovision acts.

Mind, even the blonde one, who was prone to singing sharp as a result of her forcing herself to squark too loudly was miles better intonation-wise than Jackson on your list (assuming you were referring to Michael not Joe). Listening to some of those early tracks is like running a sharpened pizza-slicer down your backbone.