ABBA

There could be several reasons they have not been honored with a star. It is required that the stars must be present at the unveiling. ABBA members may have not been able to attend due to prior commitments. Agnetha has a terrible fear of flying which may have been a contributing factor.

She’s a faithful Christian.

The following excerpt is from an interview with Princess Anni-Frid Reuss, Dowager Countess of Plauen widely known as Anni-Frid Lyngstad and also known by her nickname Frida:

“Q: You have a competely different outlook on life now. Did that change immediately?


Frida: I guess you could say that my life philosophy has a deeply religious foundation, if that's what you mean?


Q: Have you always beleived in God?


Frida: Yes, I have, but not very actively during the career years, but as a child I was deeply religious, so I guess you can say that it has come full circle. I live with my faith again and I live close to the nature that I love so much.


Q: Do you go to church?


Frida: No, I don't go to church, at least not very often. I don't need a temple to live with my faith, but I pray several times a day, that is part of my daily routine.”

See the related links to Wikipedia. There are two track lists.

The last pic of all the members together are this one:

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:ABBA_2008_Av_Daniel_%C3%85hs.jpg

It's from the Swedish premiere of the movie "Mama Mia" in Stockholm. As a band there are no recent pics since ABBA quit in 1983.

Abba sang it first in English, then spanish. Menudo sang it after them in spanish.

The blond singer's name is Agnetha Faltskog.

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

Ooo.. see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the Dancing Queen

Friday night and the lights are low

Looking out for the place to go

Where they play the right music, getting in the swing

You come to look for a king

Anybody could be that guy

Night is young and the music's high

With a bit of rock music, everything is fine

You're in the mood for a dance

And when you get the chance

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing Queen, feel the beat, from the tambourine oh yeah

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

Ooo.. see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the Dancing Queen

You're a teaser, you turn 'em on

Leave 'em burning and then you're gone

Looking out for another, anyone will do

You're in the mood for a dance

And when you get the chance

You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing Queen, feel the beat from the tambourine oh yaaa

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

Ooo.. see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the Dancing Queen

Diggin the Dancing Queen

Must be Waterloo.

No. Only a few weeks after they split, Bjorn started a relationship with his current wife, Lena. They were married in 1981 and have been together ever since. Agnetha has dated several men over the years, even marrying briefly in the very early 90's.

Agnetha and Bjorn see each other occasionally because they had two children together during their marriage, and they are now grandparents.

They never tried to get back together, but in 2010 they appeared together on stage as a couple for the first time in years when they attended the premiere of the Danish version of the stage play Mamma Mia!

The group we now know as ABBA began with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson meeting and then collaberating their songwriting talents back in the 1960's. Later the girls joined and the rest is history.

After the group split and they divorced Björn and Benny, Agnetha went back to Sweden and started a solo career, acted in a movie and raised the 2 children she had with Björn, Christian and Linda. She has released 4 English speaking albums. She married Swedish surgeon Tomas Sonnenfeld in 1990 and they divorced in 1993.

Frida lives today in Fribourg, Switzerland and performs a few times a year. She also started a solocareer and is alo involved in a several charities. She has released 5 albums after ABBA incl compilations. In 1992 she married Prince Ruzzo Reuß von Plauen and became a Princess. Her title is Anni-Frid, Prinzessin Reuss Gräfin von Plauen. Ruzzo died in 1999 leaving her a widow. That was also the same year her daughter from a previous marriage died in a car accident. == ==

The end of ABBA

In December 1978 cracks started to appear in this magic when Björn and Agnetha announced their divorce, only two months after Benny and Frida got married. They stated that this would not influence their professional collaboration. ABBA continued recording and even went on world tour. But then, when Benny and Frida also got divorced after just 2 years of marriage in February 1981, ABBA gradually started to disband. The four of them had always stated that they would continue with ABBA as long as it would give them pleasure. Of course their divorces had made the collaboration less joyful, but also professionally they all wanted to do something different. Björn and Benny, after 10 years of ABBA, were keen on trying something new in the field of theatrical music. During the autumn of 1981 they had a meeting with Tim Rice the lyricist of successful musicals like 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Evita'. On August 20th 1982 the last ever ABBA song 'The day before you came' was recorded.

They never split up officially. Over the ensuing years Björn and Benny would be occupied with their new project, the musical 'Chess'. Frida and Agnetha started working on their solo projects. Just as they had come together they grew apart again, each going their own way.

In the mid eighties the general public lost interest in the music of ABBA. Critics kept on portraying them as only commercial and superficial. But since the late nineties both public and critics have rediscovered ABBA's qualities. A whole new generation is appreciating ABBA's music and lyrics again.

The best proof of the renewed interest in ABBA is the musical 'Mamma Mia!' based on 22 ABBA songs that had its opening night in London on April 6th 1999 and which has drawn full houses since then. The storyline of the musical, written by Cathryn Johnson, is about a mother and her daughter Sophie, on the eve of Sophie's wedding to Guy. Before the big day the daughter wants to discover the identity of her father. The idea for the musical came from Judy Craymer, who also co-produced the Ulvaeus/Andersson stage show 'Chess' in 1986, and asked Björn and Benny for permission. Björn has been involved in the staging. To enable the music to be performed as closely as possible to the original songs, the music and harmonies had to be written out. For this Björn went back into the studio with a Swedish arranger to listen to the actual master tapes of the ABBA songs. The opening night was attended by Björn and Benny and got a standing ovation after the show. At the end of that year an album with the original cast recording was released.

© Marleen Janssens - 2000

Copied from a website of a REAL ABBA fan

Abba had15 top ten hits on the Australian pop chart between 1975 and 1980.Six of them reached number 1:

SOS (1975)

Mamma Mia (1975)

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do (1976)

Dancing Queen (1976)

Fernando (1976)

Money, Money, Money (1976)

Quality never goes out of style.

The visitors are KGB agents of Russia

they were thought to be aliens b)men in white coats or KGB agents

because in that time the planet was divided in to two groups

the ones who had all the rights, and the ones who didn't.

\In Russia if there was war you could be just handed a gun and had to go to war

one of the singers escaped from Russia to be free and the agents came to try and bring her back

Well they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with 'Waterloo'. But I'm sure you knew that.However, they entered the qualification rounds for the Swedish 1973 Song Contest with 'Ring Ring' and ultimately failed.

One of their first ventures as a group was a tour of Swedish restaurants in late 1970 in an act called 'Festfolk'. Each performed a few solo hits as well as skits and 'comedy' numbers. Later in the run, after Bjorn and Benny scored a massive hit with it, the song Hej Gamle Man was included in the set. The tour was not a success.

As Bjorn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid, they conducted a short folkpark tour of Sweden in 1973. Loads of photos from this tour still exist, but little is known of the concerts' content. They definitely performed their Swedish hits up till then (Hej Gamle Man, People Need Love, He Is Your Brother and Ring Ring), a cover of the Beach Boys' I Get Around and a few numbers from their respective solo careers.

A European tour was conducted in two legs in November 1974 and January 1975, covering Scandinavia, Austria and West Germany. The set included songs from Ring Ring and Waterloo, and a few from the then upcoming Abba album, released in April 1975. A bootleg recording of the Eskilstuna 1975 concert has been widely circulated.

Their first major tour was undertaken in 1977, when they toured Europe and Australia. The set mainly consisted of songs from the recently released Arrival and their 1975 album. A few brand new songs were also included, including the playfully autobiographical (read mortifyingly mawkish) I Am An A, and the four song 'mini musical' The Girl With Golden Hair. In retrospect, The Girl With Golden Hair is a huge hit with fans, especially the closer, the never-recorded Get On The Carousel. At the time, audiences were not really won over when their heroes baflled them with a string of songs they'd never heard before that basically told them how rubbish being famous is. You can see some great footage of the Australian leg in Abba: The Movie, and a small number of bootleg recordings are in circulation.

In 1979, they took on the USA before revisiting Europe. Once again, the setlist was dominated by their most recent release, Voulez Vous, although some of their earlier songs remained. Clearly not keen to tour again, the performances on this tour were not nearly as energetic as they had been on previous tours. You can see footage from the Wembley Arena concert on the DVD Abba In Concert. In 1980, the same concert was taken to Japan. Apart from a few lines of I Have A Dream sung in Japanese, a couple of costume alterations were the only changes made. Quite a few bootlegs from the USA, Europe and Japan are circulating. Milwaukee is by far the best one.

So, to sum up, Abba's tours were in 1970, 1973, 1974/75, 1977 and 1979/80.

no their all Swedish but frida is norweigian

ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision song contest for Sweden with "Waterloo". In 2005 a music industry poll named the song the best song in Eurovision's history.

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen Friday night and the lights are low Looking out for the place to go Where they play the right music, getting in the swing You come in to look for a king Anybody could be that guy Night is young and the music's high With a bit of rock music, everything is fine You're in the mood for a dance And when you get the chance... You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen You're a teaser, you turn 'em on Leave them burning and then you're gone Looking out for another, anyone will do You're in the mood for a dance And when you get the chance... You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life See that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen

Super Trouper was Abba's last number one hit in the UK, back in 1980. However there are some who believe that One of Us (1981) should hold the title. It reached number three in December of 81 on the national British chart. But there was no chart the following week, because of Christmas holidays, while the song reached number one on a number of regional British charts.

Not to each other. Bjorn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog divorced in 1980, while Benny Andersson and Frida Lyngstad divorced in 1981. All four remarried but Agnetha is now divorced while Frida is widowed from her last husband, Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss of Plauen. Andersson remains married to Mona Norklit, who he married in 1981, while Ulvaeus and Lena Kallersjö have also been married since 1981.