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ABBA [a] were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad.They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, [3] and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
After ABBA, Andersson continued writing music with Ulvaeus. Their first project was the stage musical Chess , written with Tim Rice . The Chess concept album – with vocals by Elaine Paige , Barbara Dickson , Murray Head and Swedes Tommy Körberg and Björn Skifs – was released in October 1984, selling two million copies worldwide.
In April 2016, a new biography of Fältskog by Daniel Ward, Agnetha Fältskog – The Girl with the Golden Hair, was published in the UK. [57] In the summer of 2017, Faltskög joined her ABBA bandmates Frida Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson to record two new songs, "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down".
On 2 September 2021, via YouTube livestream, ABBA announced their upcoming virtual concert residency "ABBA Voyage", as well as the imminent release of an eponymous album, recorded between 2017 and 2021. The new record, their first studio album in 40 years, features ten tracks, including "I Still Have Faith In You" and "Don't Shut Me Down ...
"Man in the Middle" Andersson Ulvaeus ABBA: 1975 "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother" Andersson Ulvaeus Ring Ring: 1973 "Me and I" Andersson Ulvaeus Super Trouper: 1980 "Medley: Pick a Bale of Cotton / On Top of Old Smokey / Midnight Special" traditional Stars im Zeichen eines guten Sterns: 1975 "Money, Money, Money" Andersson Ulvaeus Arrival ...
On 5 November 2021, the Voyage album was released worldwide, and on 27 May 2022, ABBA Voyage opened in a purpose-built venue named the ABBA Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. Since November 2021, Ulvaeus and British actor Ian McKellen have posted Instagram videos featuring the pair knitting Christmas jumpers and other festive ...
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" was written and composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung by Agnetha Fältskog.Fältskog, as the narrator, weaves the image of a lonely woman who longs for a romantic relationship and views her loneliness as a forbidding darkness of night, even drawing parallels to how the happy endings of movie stars are so different ...
The 1975 – Lead singer Matthew Healy said in an interview that he came up with the name after discovering an old art journal from a beatnik, with one of the dates listed as "June 1st, the 1975". Healy said that he thought the placement of "the" in a recorded date was intriguing, and decided to use it as the name for the band.