miércoles, 31 de marzo de 2010
martes, 30 de marzo de 2010
lunes, 29 de marzo de 2010
domingo, 28 de marzo de 2010
FRIDA Y PHIL COLINS


PHIL COLLINS AND FRIDA "HERE WE'LL STAY"
http://www.youtube.com/user/abbalook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jv3eRMUV_8
Frida "Here We'll Stay" - Live on Swiss TV, 1982.
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"Here We'll Stay" is a song recorded in 1982 by ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida). It was a duet single from her solo album Something's Going On, shared with Phil Collins, Producer and drummer of Frida's 1st solo album.
Recording began in ABBA's Polar Music Studio, Stockholm, in February 1982. As ABBA were unofficially on a break, Lyngstad spent time on her solo project. At the time of recording this song/album, Frida wanted to distance herself from "the typical ABBA pop sound". "Here We'll Stay" was written by Tony Colton and produced by Genesis drummer & singer Phil Collins, who also played drums on the song. The back-up vocals are sung by Lyngstad herself & Collins. The song & video were released in Autumn 1982. The album Something's Going On is also the best-selling solo project of any of the former ABBA members to date. A one hour TV documentary about the making of the album and this song, is included in Frida - The DVD. The whole recording process, from day one in the studio to the release party, was filmed by Swedish TV SVT. This documentary includes interviews with Frida and Phil, Björn & Benny from ABBA, as well as all the musicians playing on the album.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sorenland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KEj3L3ebc
Shot down in action -Frida lyngstad and Phil collins (Studio)
http://www.youtube.com/user/Sinny1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDRBc9tCueo
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FRIDA (ABBA) - 'I Know There's Something Going On" [promo]
http://www.youtube.com/user/goog1e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5DkTF2RW8
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad & Phil Collins - Show Down In Action
http://www.youtube.com/user/pdemussy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-1IhDCKHM
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Interview Frida con Lotta Brome - Anni-Frid Lyngstad pratar med Lotta Bromé i P4 Extra
Paul McCartney and Frida Lyngstad (from ABBA) In recording studio with Phil Collins
http://www.youtube.com/user/hlg1111
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOpItGGVnE
sábado, 27 de marzo de 2010
I HAVE A DREAM - YO LO SOÑE
http://www.youtube.com/user/AbbaVEVO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlC3otqX8bc
From the UK show called "The Late, Late Breakfast Show" in 1982.
ABBA was broadcast live from Stockholm via satellite on the BBC in the UK.
Unfortunately this was the last ever public performance by ABBA as a group.
"I Have A Dream" in this version has a "cold ending".
More info can be found on ABBAonTV
www.abbaontv.com/1982/description-late-late-breakfast-show-december.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/Brightnights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2YOGfBFAbs
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Abba - I Have A Dream
video and info:
http://www.youtube.com/user/abbafanglosuk
Abba visited Madrid in Spain on May 27-28 1979 to record 2 tv shows at the Roma Studios. The first show was "300 Millones" introduced by Spanish actress Paca Gabaldon in which they performed I Have A Dream (this video), Does Your Mother Know, Voulez-Vous and Chiquitita (in Spanish). The second show was "Aplauso" introduced by Silvia Tortosa in which they performed Does Your Mother Know, Chiquitita (in Spanish) and Voulez-Vous. The two programs were shown in Spain and Spanish speaking countries in South America in June.
The release of I Have A Dream coincided with the International Year Of The Child in 1979, and fittingly Abba decided to use 40 pupils from the children's choir of the International School of Stockholm to enhance the chorus. Benny recalls: "We sang it on tour in the States that autumn, and arranged for a children's choir to take part in the show in every city we performed in. They were sent the song in advance, they rehearsed and they came on stage singing it. I Have A Dream is as bit more folky, it's a song which marks a bit of a move back towards the schlager tradtion. There is a sitar playing which gives the song a very Greek feel, it sounds like a bouzouki. It's a sitar guitar being played by Janne Schaffer, the guitarist who worked with us from the beginning. The electric sitar looks like a guitar but there is something about the way that the strings are mounted that gives it that distinctive biting noise. It's wonderful to have good instruments to hand because when it comes to creating sounds you don't want to use the same sounds everybody else is using. We had 32 tracks in later years, we needed extra space for all the backing vocals and the synthesizer stuff that I wanted to add."
Bjorn says: "I Have A Dream was an attempt to modernise folklore with that kids choir. There were many who thought the choir was a bit over the top, but I don't agree - it felt right to have them there and it did work somehow. The choir goes well with the Italian-like melody and the lyrics sound positive. The choirs were of varying qualities. In some cities they had interpreted the children concept a bit generously, they were just as tall as we were! I've encountered a few people in America since who come up and say 'I was in that choir that year in that place'. 'Good' I always say 'I remember you...'.
I had forgotten where we had found the children's choir for the recording of I Have A Dream. Many years later I sent my two daughters Emma and Anna to the International School of Stockholm where they could be taught in English, because we had been living in England. The first time I went into the school I saw a large picture on the wall of Abba with a bunch of kids and it dawned on me that this school was where we had found the children's choir back in 1979. We had specifically wanted British and American children, so that they had the right pronounciation. On the tour of the States, my 6 year old daughter Linda first came out to sing with the local choir when we played Las Vegas. And 20 years later she appeared as Elin in our musical Kristina. She had told me that working in the theatre was the only thing she could contemplate doing."
I Have A Dream was recorded on March 27 1979 and had the working title "I Know A Song". It was released on the album Voulez-Vous on April 23 1979 and as the 4th single from it on December 5 1979 as a commemorative follow-up to Abba's concert tour of North America and Europe, with a live version of Take A Chance On Me from Wembley as the B-side. Top 10 positions were: Austria 1, Belgium 1, Cyprus 1, Holland 1, Ireland 2, South Afica 3, Switzerland 1, UK 2, West Germany 4 and Zimbabwe 7. A Spanish version called Estoy Soñando was recorded in September 1979 and also released as a single, reaching the top 5 in Argentine and Mexico and #9 in Spain. The final verse was sung in Japanese by a guest choir on the concert tour of Japan in March 1980.
Featuring: International School of Stockholm Children's Choir
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
I have a dream, a fantasy
To help me through reality
And my destination makes it worth the while
Pushing through the darkness still another mile
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA0t2nQDpDI
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Abba - I Have A Dream
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHbwikzNds
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Görel steps into the fray! ABBA reunion is never going to happen
March 26, 2010
After The Times and then the rest of the world's press got all caught up with Benny's casual remark about an ABBA reunion, Görel Hanser ABBA's super-woman behind the scenes steps in and publicly admits to telling Benny off and quashes the rumour.
UK Telegraph piece by Murray Wardrop: Fans of the Swedish pop quartet were offered a glimmer of hope when former band member Benny Andersson said they could reunite for a one-off show.However, the group has now apologised for raising fans’ expectations and admitted that the comment had been nothing more than a “joke”.
Speculation over a comeback mounted after Andersson and former band mate Bjorn Ulvaeus were asked if they would consider a one-off ABBA performance that could be beamed around the world.
Despite having previously turned down a raft of lucrative offers to reunite, including a £600 million tour deal, Andersson replied: “Yeah, why not?”
During the interview with a newspaper, he continued: "I don't know if the girls sing anything any more. I know Frida (Anni-Frid Lyngstad) was in the studio," adding: "It's not a bad idea, actually."
Referring to the last song on the group's Super Trouper album, The Way Old Friends Do, Ulvaeus quipped: "We could sing The Way Old Folks Do."
But in a blow to millions of Mamma Mia! devotees, the band have swiftly backtracked on the idea.
Görel Hanser, the group’s manager, said: “It’s simply not true.
“It was a passing comment Benny made, almost as a joke – nothing more than that.
“I’ve spoken to Benny and given him a stern telling off. I have told him not to make such ridiculous suggestions anymore.
“There is no prospect of ABBA getting back together – it’s never going to happen. I think the fans know that deep down but we’re sorry if we got anyone’s hopes up.
“It was great in the good old days but we should remember them as they were.”
The band, who split in 1982, previously dismissed any suggestion of a reunion, insisting they would never take to the stage again.
In 2000 they rejected a $1 billion (£600 million) offer to play a 100-date world tour.
At the time Ulvaeus, 64, said: “This is the budget of a small country so we had to give it some thought.
“In the end we decided that, whatever offer was on the table, it would be stupid to re-form and utterly ludicrous to change the images people all over the world have of us.”
And two years ago Ulvaeus said: “We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to regroup. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were — young, exuberant, full of energy and ambition.
“I remember Robert Plant saying Led Zeppelin were a cover band now because they cover all their own stuff. I think that hit the nail on the head.”
Andersson has also previously dismissed talk of a reunion, saying: “We’d need a good reason to re-form and I just don’t see one. We could never recreate the old days. I’d rather be remembered for the way we were 30 years ago."
The group, whose hits include Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me and Money, Money, Money, has sold 370 million records.
Famed for the spandex costumes, they have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, helped by the success of the film version of Mamma Mia!, the musical based on their songs.
However, it remains to be seen whether former female band mates Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog would support the idea of a reunion.
Lyngstad, 64, who married a German nobleman, said in an interview in 2005 that she had no interest in returning to a music career.
Fältskog, 59, has enjoyed a solo pop career since ABBA split but has not hinted at a reunion. Staffan Linde, her spokesman, said that Fältskog was not aware of Andersson recent reunion suggestion.
Andersson and Ulvaeus are promoting their new musical Kristina which opens at London's Royal Albert Hall on April 14.
http://icethesite.com/default.aspx?articleID=518
see; ABRI BIEN LOS OJOS!!! OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Abba to re-form? ‘Yeah, why not?’
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You Owe Me One
"I was taken by surprise
Now both of us are in a state of confusion
Hesitation in our eyes
Something unwanted has entered our existence
I think it's better to view it from a distance
Yes I really do"
http://www.youtube.com/user/Joeluvsagnetha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VtxjtNIFjo
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03 de julio de 2009
Jonathan Ross is joined by ABBA composer Benny Andersson. ABBA Reunion? - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - BBC One
http://www.youtube.com/user/BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhu5AEhcpEk
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viernes, 26 de marzo de 2010
ABRI BIEN LOS OJOS!!! OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Abba to re-form? ‘Yeah, why not?’
March 26, 2010
Abba to re-form? ‘Yeah, why not?’
Abba
Abba in their heyday
Pete Paphides
A reunion? Don’t talk to Abba about a reunion. Except, of course, that it’s hard not to. Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus are aware of the protocol. “Don’t worry, I know you have to ask,” says Andersson, a baby-faced 64, when he sees me edging towards the question. The last time I edged uneasily towards the question, in May 2002, Ulvaeus said flatly: “There’s no amount of money in the world that could persuade me to do that.”
Since then they’ve regularly been politely rebutting requests to re-form , not only from fans who weren’t born when Abba imploded, but from promoters who, according to Ulvaeus, offered “crazy” sums for a farewell tour — in one case $1 billion (£600 million). Every time the thought of “the looks on the faces in the audience as they realised we had grown old” meant that Abba had long faced their Waterloo.
Eight years later there’s no reason to believe that Ulvaeus and his songwriting foil of four decades might react any differently. And yet, for one extraordinary moment at the end of our encounter, a realisation stirs into life that there may be a way to turn the longed-for reunion into a reality.
However, obliging as they are when it comes to talking about their pop star years, that’s not the reason they are here. Andersson and Ulvaeus are in London overseeing rehearsals for the UK premiere of their most ambitious project. Abba fans might want to take a raincheck on Kristina when it comes to the Albert Hall next month. On the face of it, Vilhelm Moberg’s 2,000-page epic about Swedish emigrants in the 19th century isn’t the most obvious of contenders for musical theatre treatment. Nevertheless, in 1995, when Kristina opened in Malmö, Swedish reviewers greeted it with a fervour that eclipsed anything that Andersson and Ulvaeus had achieved with Abba.
Quite what British audiences will make of it is another matter. “We’ve cut the play down from three hours to two,” Ulvaeus says. “And I approached Herbert Kretzmer, who did Les Misérables, to translate the lyrics into English.”
Kretzmer obliged — although even he couldn’t do justice to one of the few gags in the original version, a bilingual joke predicated on the similarity of the word “speed” and the Swedish term for breaking wind. “It’s probably for the best,” says Ulvaeus, his 65-year-old frame a slip of what it was when he squeezed into that satin jump suit on the night of Abba’s Eurovision triumph. “We wouldn’t dream of making a fart joke at the Albert Hall.”
Be that as it may, newly retitled highlights such as Burial at Sea, I Am Reconciled to My Fate and Miscarriage confirm that Mamma Mia 2 is very much not on the cards. To Andersson it’s a chance to show a British audience what he and Ulvaeus have been up to. “One reason we never cared about breaking America,” he says, “is that the English people treated us like their own.” Ulvaeus adds, though, that “it did make us spoilt. With Top of the Pops you could reach all of Britain. But in America you reached a tiny audience doing silly TV shows we didn’t want to do anyway.”
I suggest that some members of the group showed their reluctance a little more readily than others. Anyone who persists in believing that blondes have more fun might care to read Agnetha Fältskog’s 1997 autobiography As I Am. “No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical crowd,” she wrote, “could avoid feeling shivers up and down their spine. It’s a thin line between ecstatic celebration and menace.”
Was it really that bad? As her ex-husband and father to her two children, you’d think Ulvaeus would know, but he sounds unsure. “She didn’t seem unhappy at the time. It’s strange the way that history sometimes becomes rewritten and it becomes the truth.”
He’s not just talking about Fältskog here. Such revisionism, he feels, also extends to the place Abba hold in the collective memory. “It’s not just people wanting to hear the songs. It has more to do with people wanting to be in some kind of mood that is fictitious. A mood of ‘the Seventies’ that Abba represents but is not rooted in reality. For instance, we never thought in our wildest dreams that we would be gay icons.”
I put it to him that Fältskog might have had something to do with the whole gay icons thing. “But why?” Ulvaeus counters. “She’s a very heterosexual woman. I know.”
That’s not how it works, I tell him. “How does it work, then?” he asks. Well, it all goes back to her not looking happy. You could tell that she was suffering inside, but she carried on in the name of showbiz. Ulvaeus remains unsure: “Hmm. It could be the outfits and the Eurovision.”
At times, Ulvaeus’s perspective on Abba’s legacy is so unknowing that it’s a struggle not to leap across the coffee table, where his fishcakes have just been delivered, and hug him. How could he and Andersson have written Hi-NRG hymns to physical desire such as Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) and Lay All Your Love on Me and not think it might play out well with their gay fanbase? “We didn’t realise it. We were just releasing another song, that’s all." Play Abba’s albums in chronological order and the effect is something akin to having your emotional dimmer switch turned slowly down. With the bulk of 1980’s Super Trouper album written after Ulvaeus and Fältskog’s divorce, the group’s music changed to mirror their personal situations. The Winner Takes it All was written in a red wine-abetted stupor of self-pity. “Usually it’s not a good idea to write when you’re drunk,” Ulvaeus says, “but it all came out on that one. By the time I wrote ‘The gods may throw their dice’ the bottle was empty.”
By the time they recorded their last song together, The Day Before You Came, “we were really in the dark”, Andersson says. Abba’s swansong seems to harbour a pop mystery as enduring as the identity of the subject of Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain. What happened after this guy “came”? Ulvaeus smiles enigmatically, but he’s not saying. “You’ve spotted it, haven’t you? The music is hinting at it. You can tell in that song that we were straining towards musical theatre.
“We got Agnetha to act the part of the person in that song. In retrospect, it might have been too much of a change for a lot of Abba fans. The energy had gone.”
For the remainder of the 1980s, Ulvaeus felt that “our music had fallen so out [of fashion] that people looked down on it”. In the early 1990s, when tribute bands such as Björn Again popped up, they merely compounded the uneasy feeling in Ulvaeus’s mind that people were laughing at Abba. “I heard that they spoke with a Swedish accent between the songs, which made me pissed off. But then I spoke to people who went to the shows. They said that it’s a happy feeling and that people are enjoying themselves immensely.”
Years later, of course, we know that irony is merely the first step on the way to critical and commercial rehabilitation. It isn’t irony that has sold 28 million copies of Abba Gold and — thanks to Mamma Mia!’s passage from Broadway to Hollywood — that finally broken them in America.
When Brian Higgins — the producer-writer behind Girls Aloud — set up his Xenomania hit factory, he said that “SOS was the benchmark song we aspired to reach melodically”. “Funnily enough,” Ulvaeus says, “that was also the song that Pete Townshend mentioned when he came up to me in a restaurant one time. He said he thought it was the best pop song ever written.”
If challenged to do so, could Andersson and Ulvaeus sit down and write a song like that now? “I’m not sure,” Ulvaeus says. “Look at the hookline of Poker Face by Lady Gaga. That could have been written in the Seventies, but the way the song is put together is different. Do I like it? I love it.”
“I haven’t heard it,” Andersson says.
“Oh, it’s fantastic!” Ulvaeus says. “You’re the only one.”
In 2010, our sense of what a great pop song should be tallies more with the qualities found in Abba’s music than any other group. If someone doesn’t “get” Abba they seem to be rooted in a less enlightened era. A few years ago, I suggested to Roger Waters that Pink Floyd’s Animals bore certain thematic similarities to Abba’s final album The Visitors. Taking umbrage at the notion, Waters sniffed: “From the first ‘my’ on Waterloo I was an ex-listener.”
“Well, he missed a lot of the good stuff,” Andersson says. “At least he knows it starts with ‘my’ — that’s something. Dark Side of the Moon is not bad. They made some wonderful records.” Ulvaeus seems rather more put out by Waters’s comment. “It’s a bit pretentious, isn’t it? That attitude of: ‘I wouldn’t stoop so low.’ ”
Over at Earls Court, a mile from here, the presence of Abba World confirms that the imperious former Floyd frontman finds himself in a shrinking minority. Such is the love for Abba that thousands of fans a week are paying £21 each to see an exhibition that, among the karaoke opportunities and replica Arrival helicopter, seems to revel in the defiantly workaday environs — the re-creation of their manager’s office springs to mind — that spawned deathless pop such as Dancing Queen and Take a Chance on Me. “It was a chance to clear out some stuff from the attic,” Andersson says. “Have I been to see it? No. I lived it the first time.”
No point then in asking if he would want to live it again. Probably not. But footage of Fältskog at Abba World, talking with surprising affection about her contribution to the group’s biggest hits, is fresh in my mind. Reunions can take all sorts of different forms. A lucrative world tour might be out of the question, but what about something more low-key? I float the idea of an intimate, one-off performance for invited guests and families, perhaps with a small orchestra, focusing on some of the more “mature” material from the later albums. The whole thing could be filmed and the rights licensed out to TV stations around the world.
Alluding to Super Trouper’s final song The Way Old Friends Do, Ulvaeus’s first response is seemingly in jest: “We could sing The Way Old Folks Do!” Andersson, by contrast, seems deeper in thought. “Yeah, why not?” he nods. As if working through the logistics, he adds: “I don’t know if the girls sing anything any more. I know Frida [Anni-Frid Lyngstad] was [recently] in the studio.”
And on her most recent solo album, five years ago, Fältskog was in fine voice. “If you can sing, you can sing,” he concurs. Then, a little later, “It’s not a bad idea, actually.”
Alas, though, as the door to a reunion appears to open ever so slightly, so does another one. Andersson and Ulvaeus have to rush back to the Albert Hall, where rehearsals are under way. In two weeks, Kristina has its premiere. And then what? Like the song goes: “If you change your mind . . .”
Kristina is at the Albert Hall, London SW7 (020-7589 8212), on April 14
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7076275.ece
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actualización; 27/03/20010
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Görel steps into the fray! ABBA reunion is never going to happen
Benny Andersson: Abba reunion... una broma, a joke, "Det var ett skämt" Ironi. - Apr 01
Görel steps into the fray! ABBA reunion is never going to happen
Benny Andersson: Abba reunion... una broma, a joke, "Det var ett skämt" Ironi. - Apr 01
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2010-03-26
”ABBA kan återförenas”
”Ingen dålig idé” Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid
”Ingen dålig idé” Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Reuss och Agnetha Fältskog har bara sjungit en gång sedan ABBA officiellt splittrades 1983.
Foto: AP
Benny Andersson gillar idén.
Benny öppnar för ett nytt framträdande
LONDON. Fans över hela världen drömmer om ett återförenat Abba.
För första gången öppnar nu Björn och Benny för tanken.
– Det är faktiskt ingen dålig idé, säger Benny Andersson.
År 2000 tackade ABBA nej till en miljard dollar för en återföreningsturné med 100 spelningar över världen.
Enda gången Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Reuss och Agnetha Fältskog sjungit tillsammans sedan gruppens splittring ska ha varit på mångåriga medarbetaren Görel Hansers 50-årsdag 2003.
Svaret på den eviga frågan om en återförening har ständigt varit nej. Tills i dag.
Den brittiska tidningen Times får svaret som ger en liten glimma hopp till fansen.
”Frida var i studion nyligen”
På frågan om man inte skulle kunna tänka sig ett intimt engångsframträdande, kanske tillsammans med en orkester, en spelning som skulle kunna tv-sändas över hela världen, kommer det oväntade svaret.
– Ja, varför inte? Jag vet inte om tjejerna sjunger längre. Jag vet att Frida var i studion nyligen, säger Benny Andersson till Times.
Invigde ABBA World
Lite senare under intervjun ska Benny Andersson också ha lagt till:
– Det är faktiskt ingen dålig idé.
När Aftonbladet träffade Björn Ulvaeus och Anni-Frid Reuss under invigningen av ABBA World-utställningen i London i januari förnekade båda att det fanns några planer på en återförening.
Torbjörn Ek
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/article6845306.ab
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ABBA : The Way Old Friends Do (Live London '79)
http://www.youtube.com/user/2Shaymcnhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1d5UvSJ9nU
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ABBA perform "The Way Old Friends Do" LIVE in Tokyo (Budokan) during their Japan Tour in March 1980.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrDPHioItc
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From abba's 1979 concert tour of North America and Europe.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REin1BuqiZk
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Ex integrantes no descartan reencuentro del grupo Abba
08:53 AM Estocolmo/Londres.- Después de 27 años, Abba cambia de tono ante la posibilidad de una reunificación: "Sí, ¿por qué no? No sería mala idea", dijo Benny Andersson, ex miembro del legendario cuarteto sueco, citado hoy por el diario británico "The Times".
Hasta ahora, Andersson y los otros tres miembros de Abba (Björn Ulvaeus y las cantantes Agnetha Fältskog y Anni-Frid Lyngstad) siempre descartaron categóricamente regresar a los escenarios.
El cuarteto se separó en 1983, tras éxitos como "Dancing Queen", "Waterloo" o "Take A Chance On Me". El matrimonio Fältskog y Ulvaeus y Andersson y Lyngstad emprendieron ya caminos en solitario durante los tiempso de la banda, destacó DPA.
http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/03/26/music_ava_ex-integrantes-no-de_26A3649333.shtml
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RTVE.es/REUTERS - MADRID 26.03.2010 - 12:45hEn 2000 una jugosísima oferta de 1.000 millones de dólares (746 millones de euros) no fue capaz de reunir a los componentes de ABBA para una gira mundial.
Diez años después y el continuo aumento del mito gracias al éxito del musical Mamma mia!, los cuatro artistas suecos podrían volver a juntarse para tocar tras casi 30 años separados.
"Sí, ¿por qué no?", fue la respuesta de Benny Andersson, uno de los dos componentes masculinos del cuarteto, cuando fue interrogado sobre la posibilidad de una gira con una orquesta en una entrevista para The Times, con motivo de la promoción del musical Kristina, que se estrena el Londres el 14 de abril.
"No sé si las chicas [en referencia a "Frida" Lyngstad y Agnetha Fältskog] siguen cantando. Sé que Frida estuvo grabando", añadió el músico. "Realmente no es una mala idea", subrayó.
Björn Ulvaeus, por su parte y en la misma entrevista, hizo un guiño a la idea al afirmar que "podríamos cantar como en los viejos tiempos ("The Way Old Folks Do", dijo)", en referencia a la canción del álbum Super Trouper.
Los expertos han considerado siempre que hay demasiados obstáculos para ese posible reencuentro, entre otros la vida de ermitaña que lleva Agnetha Faltskog.
Frida Lyngstad estaría dispuesta
Sin embargo, los seguidores de ABBA pueden albergar aunque sea una brizna de esperanza. También Andersson and Ulvaeus se negaron a reunir el grupo anteriormente.Hace dos años, Ulvaeus aseguró que "nunca nos subiremos a un escenario otra vez; no hay motivos para reunirse. El dinero no es un factor y nos gustaría que la gente nos recordase como éramos: jóvenes, exuberantes, llenos de energía y ambición".
Lyngstad se casó con un príncipe alemán y vive en los Alpes suizos. Se cree que estaría relativamente bien dispuesta al reencuentro, según The Times.
La última vez que el cuarteto se juntó públicamente fue en 2008, en el estreno en Estocolmo de la película Mamma mia!, basada en el musical del mismo nombre.
http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100326/una-vuelta-abba-por-que/325438.shtml
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Mama mía, ¿vuelve Abba?
Redacción
BBC Mundo
Bjorn Ulvaeus, Annifrid Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Benny Andersson luego de ganar el concurso Eurovisión en 1974
El grupo sueco Abba ingresó al Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll a mediados de marzo.
¿Qué fan de Abba no sueña con vestirse como en los años 70 y acudir a un último concierto del grupo para cantar "Chiquitita" o "Mama Mía"? Treinta años después de que la exitosa banda sueca se separara el grupo podría reunirse de nuevo.
Pese a que sus componentes siempre negaron la posibilidad de reagruparse después de la ruptura, las últimas declaraciones de dos de sus integrantes -Benny Andersson y Bjorn Ulvaeus- en el diario británico The Times han proyectado un pequeño rayo de esperanza para todos los seguidores de Abba.
Cuando se les preguntó sobre la posibilidad de hacer un último espectáculo que pudiera retransmitirse a nivel mundial, Andersson respondió, "sí, ¿por qué no?".
Andersson aseguró, sin embargo, que no sabía si las chicas del grupo seguían cantando y que "de hecho, no sería una mala idea" hacer un concierto juntos. Incluso, Ulvaeus propuso, "podríamos cantar The Way Old Folks Do", haciendo referencia a una de las canciones de su disco Super Trouper y que quiere decir algo así como "a la manera de los ancianos" .
Las declaraciones de los chicos de Abba no han dejado indiferente a nadie, sobre todo porque en el pasado siempre habían contestado negativa y rotundamente frente a esta posibilidad.
"Nunca apareceremos en los escenarios otra vez. No hay motivación para reagruparse. El dinero no es un factor y nos gustaría que la gente nos recordara como lo que fuimos: jóvenes, exuberantes, llenos de energía y con ambición", explicó Ulvaeus hace dos años.
Aunque algunos creen que las declaraciones de Andersson van más dirigidas a hacer publicidad y promoción, Mark Beaumont -periodista especializado en música- le dijo a la BBC: "No me sorprendería para nada que se reunieran. La gran mayoría del público lo pide tras el musical y la película de Mama Mía. Abba nunca había estado tan presente".
El fenómeno Abba
Benny Andersson y Ann-Frid Lyngstad durante la ceremonia de ingreso al Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll
Los hombres del grupo Abba no descartaron un regreso a los escenarios.
La posibilidad de una vuelta a los escenarios está en el aire pero los más fieles seguidores del grupo siempre han pensado que hay demasiadas barreras para que la banda vuelva a tocar junta. Entre ellas el estilo de vida de reclusión que lleva Agnetha Faltskog, la cantante rubia de Abba.
El cuarteto estaba compuesto por las dos parejas sentimentales que formaban Ann-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad con Benny Andersson y Agnetha Faltskog con Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Abba se catapultó a la fama después de ganar el Festival de Eurovisión en 1974 con el tema "Waterloo". Tras una década llena de éxitos profesionales el grupo se disolvió debido a la ruptura de ambos matrimonios.
Vendieron 370 millones de discos y dejaron temas que han dado la vuelta al mundo como "Dancing Queen", "Take a chance on me" o "Money, Money, Money".
Actualmente, "Frida" está casada con un príncipe alemán y vive en los Alpes Suizos. Según apunta el diario inglés, estaría relativamente de acuerdo con volver a reunir al grupo.
Por su parte, Ulvaeus y Andersson están promocionando su último musical "Kristina", que se estrenará en Londres el próximo 14 de abril.
Y mientras se disipan las dudas de un posible regreso a los escenarios, los dejamos con una muestra del trabajo de Abba.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/cultura_sociedad/2010/03/100326_abba_reencuentro_reunion_grupo.shtml
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Abba ingresa en el Salón de la Fama del Rock - ABBA The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
ABBA inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Agnetha, Frida, Benny and Bjorn CONGRATULATIONS!!!

ABBA: Frida and Benny into RRHOF, 15 March 2010
GRACIAS a Pepe por enviarme este video con subtítulos en español!!
Marzo 15, 2010 Benny y Frida aceptan ingreso a nombre de ABBA en el Hotel Waldorff-Astoria de Nueva York
Muy emotivo dicurso!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ohM0HymaYU
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Faith Hill performs "The Winner Takes It All", with Benny Andersson on piano, at ABBA's induction
into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, 15 March, 2010.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Ca3TgQVNU
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with love, CONGRATULATIONS!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gC1AS1Oko
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ABBA Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame! 2010 Benny and Frida Aftonbladet
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ABBA: Acceptance speeches of Frida and Benny into RRHOF, 15 March 2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYdQAwnS35w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-6RMeyLYC8
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 2010 Artist Interviews Benny and Frida ABBA
http://www.youtube.com/user/Sinny1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEttCRCRXNM
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The Winner Takes It All
AGNETHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92cwKCU8Z5c
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http://rockhall.com/inductees/abba/bio/
Agnetha Fältskog (vocals; born April 5, 1950),
Benny Andersson (keyboards; born December 16, 1946),
Björn Ulvaeus (guitar; born April 24, 1945),
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (vocals; born November 15, 1945)
ABBA rose out of Sweden in the Seventies to become one of the most successful and beloved pop groups in music history. Their success gave a more international flavor to popular music, broadening it beyond the English-speaking countries of origin. ABBA truly was an international phenomenon, topping charts and breaking records in England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia. For a few years ABBA ranked second only to automaker Volvo as Sweden’s biggest money-making export.
The group has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. In the U.K. alone, these Swedish superstars charted 19 Top 10 singles (including nine that went to Number One) from 1974 to 1982. America proved somewhat more impervious to ABBA mania, as the group cracked the U.S. Top 10 only four times and hit Number One exactly once (with "Dancing Queen," in 1977). However, America got belatedly on board when the "jukebox musical" Mamma Mia!, based on the songs of ABBA, became a Broadway sensation. In December 2009, it became the 12th-longest-running Broadway show in history as it closed in on its 3,400th performance. Mamma Mia!, which premiered in London in 1999, has played around the world to an estimated 40 million people. A film version and accompanying soundtrack were released in 2008. All of this further fueled ABBA mania, which remains in high throttle three decades after the group’s breakup in 1982.
The seeds for ABBA’s decade of infectious, effervescent pop were sewn in 1966, when Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus met. The two were already rock stars in Sweden, where Björn played guitar with the Hootenanny Singers and Benny was keyboardist with the Hep Stars (referred to in their homeland as "the Swedish Beatles"), They made some records as a duo, using the name Björn and Benny. In 1972 they recorded one of their songs using Björn’s wife, Agnetha Fältskog, and Benny’s wife-to-be, Anni-Frid Lyngstad ("Frida," for short), as backing vocalists. Cut in a studio in Stockholm in March 1972, "People Need Love" was credited to "Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid," as the ABBA acronym had not yet been devised. (Technically, the first "B" in ABBA is backward, according to the band’s copyrighted logo.) "People Need Love" became a Swedish hit and was issued in America on Playboy Records (an offshoot of the magazine), which peculiarly amended the credit to "Björn and Benny (with Svenska Flicka)" – meaning "Swedish girl."
ABBA’s breakthrough came in 1974, when their song "Waterloo" won the Eurovision Song Contest. It topped the charts in many countries, including Britain, and even hit Number Six in the U.S. With its ringing harmonies and surging melody, "Waterloo" recalled the tuneful, high-energy songs of the girl-group era and the British Invasion at a time when infectious pop songcraft was in short supply. There was much more to come from ABBA in this vein. A year after the success of Waterloo," they scored again with "SOS," reaching Number Six in the U.K. and Number 15 in the U.S. ABBA became a fixture on the world charts.
Their mounting success resulted in sustained chart feats of Beatles-like proportions. Over a six-year period, from late 1975 through early 1972, ABBA released 17 consecutive singles that placed in the U.K. Top Five. Eight of those were Number One hits: "Mamma Mia," "Fernando," "Dancing Queen," "Knowing Me Knowing You," "The Name of the Game," "Take a Chance on Me," "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper." The singles "Does Your Mother Know" and "I Have a Dream" just fell short, reaching Number Two. Four others stopped at Number Three:
"Money, Money, Money," "Angeleyes/ Voulez-Vous," "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man after Midnight)" and "One of Us." All are driven by the soaring, harmonized lead vocals of Agnetha and Anna-Frid and the songwriting and production of Björn and Benny.
From 1975 to 1980, ABBA spent 35 weeks atop Britain’s album charts – a feat equaled by no one. By contrast, the group only topped the American album and singles charts once: in April 1977, when "Dancing Queen" hit Number One for a week. For this reason, as Billboard wrote, "the members of ABBA consider America to be their only failure." Even so, they placed 20 songs in the Hot 100 and have seen eight of their albums certified gold or platinum by the RIAA.
In fact, much of ABBA’s American success came belatedly, after their 1982 breakup. Internal tensions stemming from the divorces of the two couples recalled similar turbulence within Fleetwood Mac during the making of that band’s Rumours. Agnetha and Björn separated in late 1978, and Benny and Anni-Frid split up in early 1981. They recorded their final album, The Visitors, before disbanding in 1982. Benny and Björn thereupon set about working on the musical Chess with Tim Rice, while Agnetha and Anni-Frid embarked on solo careers. ABBA has never regrouped.
An ABBA revival in the Nineties was sparked by the incredible success of Gold – Greatest Hits, which has sold 26 million copies worldwide, including six million in the U.S. A comprehensive box set, Thank You for the Music, was released in 1994. The musical Mamma Mia! came at the end of the decade and carried the ABBA revival into the new millennium. In 2002, Universal Music remastered and reissued ABBA’s eight studio albums in expanded versions. An even more exhaustive box set, The Complete Studio Recordings, appeared in 2005. With ABBA’s 2010 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, ABBA mania will continue for years to come.
http://rockhall.com/inductees/abba/bio/
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UN GRUPO SIEMPRE PRESENTE
Abba llegó al Salón de la Fama
Se separaron en 1982, pero sus hits perduraron en la voz de otros cantantes, el cine y el teatro. Ahora forman parte de la selección del rock. Fotogalería.
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Benny Anderson y Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ex miembros del cuarteto que inmortalizó hits como Mamma Mía o Chiquitia, asistieron a la ceremonia que posibilitó el ingreso de la banda al famoso museo en Cleveland. (EFE)
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Los suecos de Abba pertenecen desde este martes al ilustre círculo de celebridades musicales que integran el Salón de la fama y del rock and roll, en el que figuran grandes nombres como Elvis Presley, los Beatles, los Rolling Stones, James Brown, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Queen o U2.
Benny Anderson y Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ex miembros del cuarteto que inmortalizó hits como Mamma Mía o Chiquitita, asistieron a la ceremonia que posibilitó el ingreso de la banda al famoso museo en Cleveland (Ohio), que celebra la obra de más de 600 representantes del mundo de la música.
Este acto supuso el reencuentro de los dos cantantes, que se casaron en 1978 y se divorciaron en 1981, un año antes que la banda decidiera disolverse definitivamente. Los otros dos miembros de Abba, Björn Ulvaeus y Agnetha Fältskog, que también fueron pareja, no estuvieron en la ceremonia ya que la relación entre los distintos ex compañeros no es la mejor.
El grupo parece estar rodeado de una magia especial, ya que a pesar de que desde 1982 no volvieron a grabar juntos, sus pegadizos temas quedaron en la memoria colectiva de un público que lo sigue acompañando y que gracias a otras celebridades del rock pudieron ampliar fronteras. Por ejemplo a fines de los´80 Erasure lanzó un EP con versiones electrónicas de sus canciones, el cual llegó a la cima de las listas británicas en la primavera de 1992.
El cine también fue culpable de su omnipresencia ya que dos producciones australianas, Las aventuras de Priscilla, reina del desierto y Muriel's Wedding, reinstalaron al grupo en lo más alto del reconocimiento del público allá por los noventa.
En el teatro también fue suceso, sobre todo con la obra escrita por Benny y Björn que fue estrenada en 1999 y vista por más de 30 millones de espectadores en todo el mundo acompañada luego por su posterior adaptación cinematográfica, protagonizada por Meryl Streep y Pierce Brosnan que a pesar de no haber conseguido muy buenas críticas obtuvo gran repercusión.
Los integrantes de la banda, que grabó ocho discos de estudio, siempre aseguraron que jamás volverían a reunirse a pesar de que cada reedición o recompilación que ofrece la discográfica dueña de los derechos de la música es un verdadero éxito. "Se separaron en 1982, pero los álbumes de homenaje al grupo y el éxito del musical Mamma Mia los mantiene permanentemente expuestos", dijo un portavoz del Salón de la Fama, quizás este sea uno de los argumentos para que, amén de no subirse a los escenarios, siga siendo una banda de culto.
OTROS RECONOCIMIENTOS. Once son los nuevos miembros del mítico museo, entre ellos la banda británica Génesis, el grupo de rock estadounidense The Stooges, liderado por Iggy Pop, y el cantante de reggae jamaiquino Jimmy Cliff.
http://criticadigital.com/index.php?secc=nota&nid=39267
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Här skriver Abba musikhistoria igen
NEW YORK. När Benny satte sig ner vid flygeln strax efter klockan fyra i morse skrev Abba ny musikhistoria.
För första gången hade icke engelskspråkiga artister valts in i prestigefyllda Rock hall of fame i USA.
I salongen jublade Frida, lika stolt och glad som sin exmake.
- Det här är jättehäftigt. Vi är så stolta, säger båda till Expressen i natt.
Över 30 år har gått sedan storhetstiden. Och alla medlemmarna har lagt Abba åt sidan. Med nattens ceremoni gjorde den svenska succcégruppen ett nerslag i nutidshisorien.
– Det är ett oerhört fint erkännande. Jag är stol och hedrad. Det känns mycket speciellt, säger en avslappnad och Benny till Expressen några timmar innan han tog plats på scenen inför 100-tals andra pop- och rockstjärnor.
Benny spelade ”The winner takes it all”, tillsammans med ett tiomannaband under ledning av Paul Shaffer (David Lettermans bandledare) och flerfaldigt Grammy-belönade Faith Hill.
"Otroligt att vara här"
En lång rad artister underhöll, bland andra Eric Burdon från Animals, ett band jämngammalt med Hep Stars där Bennys karriär började.
– Sett ur ett Hep stars-perspektiv är det otroligt att vara här i natt, säger Benny.
– Men framförallt är det ett erkännande att vår musik har inspirerat andra. Precis som vi har inspirerats av så många i det här gänget, säger Benny och nämner namn som Chuck Berry, Beach Boys, Bee Gees, och Lennon/McCartney.
– Möjligen saknar jag mina klassiska inspirationskällor, Schubert och Bach, skrattar Benny.
– Tänk vilka fantastiska pop- och rockikoner som är invalda i Hall of fame. Och tänk på alla låtskrivare som inspirerat oss under åren, de är också med i det här gänget. Stort.
Gillar Kraftwerk
Benny Andersson kan inte förklara varför Abbas musik står sig fortfarande.
– Jag vet faktiskt inte. Om någon har ett bra svar - ring mig!
I går hade Benny en trevlig pratstund med bröderna Barry och Robin Gibb, som i natt installerade Abba och presenterade Frida och Benny.
– Vi har ju inte setts på 31 år. Otroligt roligt att träffa dem igen.
Benny känner det som en speciell ära att Abba är första icke anglosaxiska artisterna som blir invalda. På frågan om det finns några andra som kan platsa nämner han tyska Kraftwerk.
– De förtjänar en plats här, tycker han.
"Agnetha lika stolt som jag"
Annifrid Lyngstad, som valde att hålla sig salongen i stället för att uppträda i natt, säger till Expressen at det är överväldigande att ha valts som kvinna.
– Lite research visar att vi är 25 kvinnor av cirka 180 medlemmar. Agnetha hälsar och säger att hon är lika stolt som jag.
Det tog tid för Abborna att fatta sig egen storhet. Först när de alla satte sig ner, ett par decennier efter uppbrottet, och sammanställde första Abba-boxen förstod de vad de skapat.
– I dag har jag mod att säga att jag är stolt över Agnethas och min prestation, backade av Björn och Benny förstås, säger Frida, som ibland blir lite nostalgisk och lyssnar på de gamla låtarna på nätterna.
Frida pratar också om sina förebilder i Rock hall of fame. Nämner Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight med flera.
– Samt allra mest Dusty Springfield, tillägger hon.
Roxette skulle platsa
Hon kan tänka sig få sällskap av fler svenskar i det illustra sällskapet. Tycker att Roxette nog skulle kunna platsa.
Frida avslöjar också, lite hemlighetfullt, sina musikaliska planer.
– Jag sjunger ihop med en musiker på en platta som kommer så småningom.
Mer om detta spännande projekt fick Expressen inte veta vid pratstunden på Waldorf Astoria strax före konserten i natt.
Dessutom hade allt fler Abba-fans hittat oss och det var dags för halva Abba att smyga undan och förbereda sig för nattens musikfest.
Att Abba skulle stå på scen tillsammans igen finns inte på kartan för någon av dem. Den svenska succégruppen håller regelbunden kontakt och Frida och Benny hade roligt i vimlet på det klassiska New York-hotellet. Ivrigt uppvaktade av fans som köade för autografer och bilder.
Kommande musikfester med Rock hall of fame tackar Benny gärna ja till.
– Om jag blir bjuden. Och om de behöver nån vid pianot, säger han med ett ödmjukt leende.
Av Peter Suneson
peter.suneson@kvp.se
http://www.expressen.se/noje/1.1919225/har-skriver-abba-musikhistoria-igen
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