Abba rock band biography
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ABBA
ABBA | |
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ABBA in 1974; from left to right Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus | |
| Also known as | Agnetha Benny Björn Anni-Frid |
| Origin | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genres | Pop rock, Euro disco, Europop, synthpop |
| Years active | 1972 – 1982; 2018 - present |
| Labels | Polar, Polydor, Atlantic, Universal, Epic, Vogue, RCA, PolyGram, Sunshine |
| Members | Agnetha "Anna" Fältskog Björn Ulvaeus Benny Andersson Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad |
| Website | abbasite.com |
ABBA is a Swedishpop musicgroup, who had many hits in the 1970s in Stockholm and early 1980s. ABBA is the most successful Swedish music group of all time and was the most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s.[1]
ABBA became very popular after they won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. They had many hits. These included "Dancing Queen", "SOS", "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", and "Waterloo". Most of their songs were written by Ulvaeus and Andersson.
They originally broke up in 1982, but their music is still popular. It has appeared in movies (including the Australian movies The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Muriel's Wedding). The stage musical Mamma Mia! was developed from their music and subsequently made into a 2008 m
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ABBA
ABBA was a Scandinavianmusical group that enjoyed significant success during its decade-long career, becoming one of the iconic pop bands of the 1970s.
Origins
In 1972, four musicians released a single, 'People Need Love' under a rather unwieldy group name setting out each of their four names: 'Björn, Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid'.
The four members of the band were Swedes Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Agnetha Fältskog, and Norwegian-born Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
In 1973 the band's manager Stig Anderson became annoyed with such an extended nomenclature to refer to the band and began referring to the group using the first letters of each of their names to form an acronym, ABBA. The choice of the name ABBA was somewhat of an in-joke as people subsequently would associate the name with one of Sweden's largest fish canneries, now known as Abba Seafood, who permitted the band to refer to themselves as ABBA.
Success
In 1974 ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton (U.K.) with a song that became their first number one hit, 'Waterloo'. This was the biggest international hit of any Eurovision winners, and was later voted the best song of the first 50 years of Eurovision.[1]
Following several lesser selling singles, the group found chart success
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