Mamma Mia is ABBA, people love ABBA, and I love ABBA – I'll dance to it till the cows come home.
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We're not getting 2018 ABBA, we're getting pseudo-1979 hologram ABBA.
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One of my favourite groups of all times is ABBA. ABBA!!
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Photo by Åke E: son Lindman, courtesy of ABBA The Museum More than anything, though, the ABBA museum is a monument to how mind-bogglingly successful ABBA was.
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Thanks to the ABBA museum, I now know so much random goddamn shit about ABBA.
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I had this feeling she liked Abba and so I put some Abba on to cheer her up.
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I believe history will be kind to ABBA; for indeed, ABBA has already written the shit out of it.
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When I was talking to my wife over phone, I could hear my youngest son calling 'Abba-Abba' (father-father).
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And you're going to keep the musical's Abba-centric conceit — only you used up all the great Abba songs the first time.
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Your first introduction to ABBA was more than likely listening to one of the 19803 million copies of ABBA Gold that have been sold since 1992.
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"Intermezzo No. 1" was an even weirder ABBA instrumental and probably weirdest ABBA song overall, due to its hyperbolic attempt to mimic Benny's love for classical music.
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When I chatted to ABBA After Midnight's organizer Conrad, he said he thought the night had been so successful because "ABBA tunes are just pop genius that everyone knows, even if you've never knowingly sat and put an ABBA record on," and maybe it is just that simple.
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In ABBA: The Museum, you must actively search out evidence that there was other Swedish music besides ABBA, and then you will be told that that music was mostly crap.
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There's the pre-ABBA-ABBA exhibit, which most notably includes half the vehicles that bandmembers Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson's old bands The Hootenanny Singers and The Hep Stars had toured in—as in, someone chopped each of these dudes' old cars in half and slapped them on the wall of the ABBA museum.
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I don't say this to criticize the band or ABBA: The Museum at all, though—it's a perfect reflection of ABBA as a band, even if it's a horrible reflection of reality.
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But I'd never known that Abba, in Abba EBAN, stood for "Aubrey," which has trended up into the top 30 or 40 names for girls in the last eight or 10 years.
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They're serenading nuns, dancing to Abba and changing flat tires.
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ABBA are not just fluffy, wedding reception fodder Theresa, okay?
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I've been listening to so much Abba lately, it's insane.
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This, despite all members of ABBA being very much alive.
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Abba has denied knowledge of attacks and protested his innocence.
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A lawyer for Abba said he would appeal the sentence.
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"Some of us dance and sing to ABBA," he said.
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ABBA is back and already has recorded two new songs.
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Cam Lindsay is currently probably listening to ABBA in Canada.
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I wasn't a big fan of Abba in the '70s.
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He reminded him of his friend Abba back in Baga.
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"Dancing Queen," by Abba, Bergoglio answers with a sly smile.
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About last night Sweden's given us many things: Ikea, ABBA, supermodels.
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My children would be like, 'Abba—what is this terrible music?
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Yes, it helped launch the careers of Abba and Celine Dion.
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Cher is sending out an SOS — and ABBA fans are answering!
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But at least he will not have to compete with ABBA.
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Abba Garima's isolation has helped keep the manuscripts safe for centuries.
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"Money, Money, Money," ABBA Feeling poor in a rich man's world?
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Which, in the end, is probably exactly what Abba would want.
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Twenty-three-year old Alexis has home videos of herself at 3 years old recreating ABBA music videos, while Ray was an A*Teens (an ABBA teen tribute band) stan before migrating to the real deal.
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The very first thing I did was go to Stockholm and record my songs with Benny [Andersson] and Bjorn [Ulvaeus], and suddenly I was in Benny's studio and I was singing Abba songs in front of Abba.
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Love. Pregnancy. Death. Flashbacks. Dancing. Singing. Abba. Meryl. Cher. Andy García. Help!
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But in Stockholm, at an Abba-themed Greek taverna, and not really.
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Four decks higher, a DJ is playing his music — it's Abba night.
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Yes, a Ramones/ABBA hybrid band actually existed and they were awesome.
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Is there anywhere in the country that you see as "ABBA-centric"?
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We listened to Abba, the Supremes, Fleetwood Mac, Cheryl Lynn and Obama.
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Who wants a somber realistic drama based on the songs of Abba?
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Just like being all smiles all the time made ABBA seem way creepier than any shock rocker ever did—seriously, watch the video for "Waterloo" and try not to cower in fear—ABBA: The Museum's forced march of cheeriness, which presents ABBA as the only Swedish band in the universe until they chose to stop making music and allow other Swedish bands to happen, feels almost totalitarian.
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Funny thing is, everyone in town loves the show and its ABBA ending.
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She also performs a song from her upcoming ABBA tribute album, Dancing Queen.
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"The Hindi lyrics are more meaningful than the original ABBA lyrics," he says.
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The UK Prime Minister just danced to ABBA at the Conservative Party Conference.
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The costumes, musical numbers, and female stars glisten in an ABBA-made universe.
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Cher's upcoming album of ABBA covers is going to be stacked with hits.
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Once I got to know their music better, ABBA became inescapable for me.
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Significantly, ABBA: The Museum also doubles as the Swedish Music Hall of Fame.
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Here We Go Again," the sequel to the ABBA jukebox musical "Mamma Mia!
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The Abba Museum, more of an attraction than cultural institution, is a hoot.
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And it's not just because Stars Hollow: The Musical includes an ABBA-scored sequence.
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ABBA fans: dust off your platforms and prepare to step into a time machine.
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Adapted from the successful stage musical based on the songs of ABBA, Mamma Mia!
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If ABBA plays this smart, their digital avatars will be themselves in the '70s.
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We need the palliative ABBA songs to flow over us to calm us down.
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Who's ready to have a million ABBA songs in their head all over again?
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Good news dancing queens — ABBA has two new songs for you to jive to!
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In the words of ABBA (and also the movie title), here we go again.
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Or that Mercer, the buttoned-up schoolteacher, would end up getting down to Abba.
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Names like ABBA or Suicide work less as plot points than totemic place-setters.
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Almost anything can be labeled "rock": Metallica, ABBA, Mannheim Steamroller, a haircut, a muffler.
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WEST POINT "Mamma Mia," musical by Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of Abba.
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ABBA is an acronym: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
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ABBA has also been used to help treat cases of breast cancer and Alzheimer's.
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VICE: How did you arrive at the point of being an ABBA tribute act?
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Forty one years later, ABBA and Denzel Washington show few signs of slowing down.
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And then there is ABBA: The Museum, which is exactly what it sounds like.
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The ABBA museum, on the other hand, contains English translations for pretty much everything.
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"As an abba, as a father, I'm doing it for my kids," he said.
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Here We Go Again, the ABBA musical sequel starring a bevy of movie stars.
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Whther you're a fan or not, Abba are a must-have in every household.
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A typically huge ABBA hit, "Does Your Mother Know" isn't particularly explicit, but considering the power dynamics both in the lyrics of other ABBA songs and in the way the band wrote songs together, there's something deeply uneasy about "Does Your Mother Know".
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Based on the hit Broadway musical and featuring songs of ABBA, the first Mamma Mia!
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How else would I have ever understood that "Oliver's Army" is a takeoff on ABBA?
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Based on the hit Broadway musical and featuring songs of ABBA, the first Mamma Mia!
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The contest has launched the careers of musicians like ABBA, Celine Dion, and Johnny Logan.
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There are well over 500,000 podcasts in the world, covering everything from ABBA to zoology.
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"I was in an ABBA video that I actually forgot I was in," she revealed.
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But it wasn't so, said Carl Magnus Palm, an Abba historian who attended the party.
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Here We Go Again led to a tremendously entertaining album of ABBA covers, Dancing Queen.
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That being said, ABBA Gold is still one of the best albums of all time.
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The only gimmick they used was becoming ABBA incarnate, mirroring the quartet to a tee.
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Whoever decided a Mamma Mia sequel meant digging up ABBA deep cuts like this...touché.
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The games are competitive, but joyful with a soundtrack moving from hip-hop to Abba.
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He avoided most people, except his best friend, Abba, who was a few years older.
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Thanks in part to ABBA, Sweden has been a nexus of pop songwriting for decades.
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There is more pathos and heartbreak packed into ABBA Gold than in a thousand latin prayers.
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Nevertheless, with ABBA on tour again in America this summer, maybe Mr Sanders should watch out.
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"The Third Man" (2010) dealt with the aura of song, roping in ABBA and Kylie Minogue.
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"Super Trooper" and "Waterloo" are some of the other catchy Abba songs featured in the film.
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The Friday morning crowd enthusiastically sang along to Abba hits "Waterloo", "Super Trouper" and "Dancing Queen".
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Friday Night Fever, featuring the New York Bee Gees with special guest Dancing Dream, ABBA tribute.
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They sold a few million records, but once they stopped covering ABBA the novelty wore off.
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Joey Ramone admittedly lifted those bubblegum melodies from not just the Beach Boys, but also ABBA.
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Likely because when they visited Sweden, the ABBA dudes would take them to live sex shows.
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The groom is a son of Absatou Abba-Moussaand Dr. Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri of Ottawa.
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And shortly after the movie's premiere, Cher announced that she's releasing an album of Abba cover songs.
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I know, it's unfair: most of us weren't even born yet when ABBA were in their heyday.
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Variety reported that ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus are executive producing the film as well.
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Did Sophie go to school on the island, or was she homeschooled to the songs of ABBA?
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The pop music icon, 72, revealed on Tuesday that she has recorded an album of ABBA covers.
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Just last week, he had Amanda Seyfried sing Abba songs that had been jumbled by Google Translate.
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Abba, a Cameroonian journalist for Radio France International, could have faced the death penalty on the charges.
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Her father had been in a car driving from Nsukka to Abba, but he had not arrived.
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In the UK, though, ABBA Gold is the second biggest selling album, behind only Queen's Greatest Hits.
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Elvis Costello asked Nick Lowe to help him make his third album, Armed Forces, sound like ABBA.
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Even John Peel, the most important DJ and greatest tastemaker of all time, couldn't stop humming ABBA.
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It's inevitable that ABBA will, one day, be subject to a critical re-evaluation and, hopefully, valorization.
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Reporters on the campaign trail caught some delightful clips of Sanders dancing to The Temptations and ABBA.
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ABBA, for example, broke out with its 1974 performance of "Waterloo," the band's first No. 1 single.
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Vivendi has licensed a significant catalog of hits from artists like Abba and U2 to streaming services.
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The Supremes are playing; our driver, Scott, is grateful that we are no longer listening to Abba.
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They quickly approach, ask the student's name and preferred pronouns, and invite the student to dance to ABBA.
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He was a living avatar for every time the dudes from Immortal sang ABBA at a karaoke bar.
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Instead he quietly toured the cell blocks and other buildings with a guide and a survivor, Abba Naor.
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Still, if a little bit of humanoid creepiness is the price for new ABBA music, we'll take it.
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Gay men, in particular, took up the ABBA cause and heralded a revival of interest in the group.
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Two other Abba covers, "Fernando" and "Super Trooper," were sung by Cher on the soundtrack for Mamma Mia!
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ABBA singer and film producer Björn Ulvaeus was amazed at how well she sang their hit 1980 song.
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The biggest long shot of the night is Georgian rock band Young Georgian Lolitaz at 250-1. Abba
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Flesh-and-blood ABBA won't be performing the new tune live; we'll hear it via their virtual selves.
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Former members of Abba, Sweden's foremost pop troubadours, based "Kristina fran Duvemala", a symphonic extravaganza, on his novels.
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Organizers of those protests are currently on trial charged under the same anti-terrorism law used against Abba.
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Chances are if your favorite band knows a thing or two about melody, they've covered an ABBA song.
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One thing about ABBA that often gets ignored in their history is just how weird they could be.
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The hit song "The Winner Takes It All" was released by the Swedish pop group Abba in 1980.
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As we all know, the only people to have made bazillions off the Battle of Waterloo are Abba.
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Helped spearhead Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area (EAP/SFBA) and Arts for a Better Bay Area (ABBA).
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No one could tell a story like Vin Scully, and no one could present an idea like Abba Eban.
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I'm happy they're happy, but ABBA wrote some songs with great highs about love and great lows about loss.
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Irish & Swedish fans team up to perform the greatest version of #Abba 'Dancing Queen' #IRL #SWE #COYBIG #EURO2016 pic.twitter.
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Here We Go Again has everything one could want in a prequel/sequel: ABBA songs, Christine Baranski, relationship ~ drama ~.
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For the first time in eight years, ABBA reunited Wednesday at the launch of Bj rn Ulvaeus' new restaurant.
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Now PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the music video for the empowering ABBA-meets-Fleetwood Mac stomper.
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The members of ABBA announced Friday that they have recorded new material for the first time in 35 years.
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HUNTINGTON Friday Night Fever, the New York Bee Gees with Dancing Dream, Abba tribute band, as a special guest.
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At the end of the 1990s, a group of teenagers from Stockholm were assembled to basically cover ABBA Gold.
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The first phase of adulthood is admitting you like ABBA, and the second is admitting you like Mamma Mia.
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Her own collection of Abba covers is coming, and, as I write this, "The Cher Show" hurtles toward Broadway.
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I have no doubt that at some point soon––probably very soon, considering the impending ABBA reunion, and Cher's upcoming ABBA covers album––ABBA's music will be reconsidered warts and all, and that we'll be able to appreciate ABBA's music for what it is: incredibly written pop masking a near-dystopic lyrical bent.
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Starring Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, and Cher, this ABBA-infused double feature is what spectacular Mother's Days are made of.
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Five years ago, Sweden's greatest pop exports ABBA and Avicii collaborated on a song that you've probably never heard before.
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There were unexpected gold mines (it turns out I really love Abba) but these were outnumbered by the embarrassing shortfalls.
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We bought the pianist a Jameson and a waitress a vodka, and listened to Berlin, Sondheim, Abba and Billy Joel.
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For two hours the viewer gets to trade in their own dreary life for melodrama, Hollywood celebrities and ABBA songs.
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"We see people from Mali, we see people from Libya," says Abba Kalli, a commander of the 260,25-strong CJTF.
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"In the words of ABBA, it seems U.S. shale oil production is presenting a Waterloo moment for OPEC," Strickland said.
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We didn't think so, but you try watching this trailer and see if you can resist its ABBA-soundtracked charms.
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" Stig Anderson of Abba established the Polar Music Prize in 1989, aiming to "celebrate music in all its various forms.
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Fans and critics look at ABBA and see harmless pop music, useful for enjoyment but rarely subjected to intense analysis.
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Abba has written and recorded new music together for the first time since the Swedish pop group split in 1982.
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It's a fine line between writing a song about nothing and a song about anything, and ABBA toed it beautifully.
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HERE WE GO AGAIN The songs of Abba skip Broadway this time for a sequel to the 21973 musical comedy.
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Eminem currently shares the record for consecutive No. 1 albums with Led Zeppelin and ABBA, according to UK's Official Chart.
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Churches across Sweden have, apparently, been using music from electronic dance to Abba to try to lure back young people.
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I learned this because last Friday, in a culmination of months of anticipation, I went to the second-ever ABBA After Midnight, an east London club night where you pay a fiver for an advance ticket to go and stand in a room and listen/dance/lip sync for your life to exclusively ABBA songs.
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" The ABBA-meets-Fleetwood Mac jam serves as a response to Dolly Parton's 1973 please-don't-take-my-man classic "Jolene.
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Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA tells Anne McElvoy, our senior editor, about the melancholy beneath the exuberant voices and his musical influences.
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When you walk down the street in your Donna Sheridan outfit, we want you to sing ABBA like you mean it.
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The football fans that grumble about being muddled by ABBA will be irritated even more by Mr Palacios-Huerta's next suggestion.
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Plus, there's a moment when Sophie takes up Donna's spot in the ultimate wedding ABBA cover trio, Donna and the Dynamos.
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Mr Cameron claims his favourite bands include The Killers and Radiohead, for example; Mrs May goes for Abba and Frankie Valli.
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The best of the bunch is Björn Again, who have been around longer than ABBA—28 years to ABBA's 11 years.
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Originally they were called ABBA Teens, but obviously Benny and Björn weren't cool with that so they became the A*Teens.
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The list of acts that have put their spin on an ABBA classic is as weird and wonderful as it gets.
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Richmond Journal RICHMOND, British Columbia — What sort of karaoke joint offers 70 kinds of bubble tea but only one Abba song?
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A solid choice for al fresco dining, the Abba Patio Outdoor 9-Foot Market Table Umbrella checks all the basic boxes.
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At other shops, Adé's records were tossed into the undifferentiated mass known as Rock/Pop, where they were overshadowed by ABBA .
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Dancing queen Nothing says awkward like watching British Prime Minister Theresa May groove to an ABBA song before making a speech.
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Of course, the real star of the "Mamma Mia!" franchise is Abba, the Swedish pop supergroup whose songs power the soundtrack.
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MMT is rooted in the work of economists such as Hyman Minsky, Abba Lerner, and Wynne Godley during the 20th century.
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ABBA is one of the most commercially successful music groups in history with more than 375 million albums and singles sold.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making a cameo in the "Mamma Mia!" movie sequel gave Cher a taste for the music of ABBA.
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Photo by Åke E: son Lindman, courtesy of ABBA The Museum Then there's the whole thing about the ABBA museum only accepting credit and debit cards, which is pretty normal when you consider that a staggering 80 percent of all transactions in Sweden are conducted via card and the nation is well on its way to becoming cash-free.
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You can can never go wrong with any song by ABBA, or anything that's been featured on Lip Sync Battle or Glee.
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MMT proponents also have a distinct view about the demand for money drawn from the work of a Keynes contemporary, Abba Lerner.
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Last week, word got around that the Queen's favorite song might be "Dancing Queen" by ABBA— she is the Queen, after all.
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In an impromptu move the songwriters then jumped on stage to sing with their bandmates and talk about the history of ABBA.
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Here We Go Again, Cher will release Dancing Queen — an ABBA covers collection and her first album in five years — on Friday.
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In an article about Swedish cash-phobia, the New York Times featured Bjorn Ulvaeus, a former Abba member, embracing a cashless existence.
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"I know ABBA just from life," Rachel explained, as if the band was like drinking water or brushing your teeth every night.
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Today a trickle of foreign academics arrive at Abba Garima's gates seeking the gospels' clues to the early history of eastern Christianity.
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The released girls were received at the airport on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari by Alhaji Abba Kyari, his chief of staff.
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When this week started, I genuinely thought that I'd be writing about Madonna's surreal VMA appearance or perhaps Cher's continuing Abba tributes.
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ABBA, made up of two married couples, toured the world for nine years before breaking up in 1982 after the couples divorced.
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Look at Dixon, standing in the police station and listening to ABBA 's "Chiquitita"—a sublimely ill-judged choice—on his headphones.
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The Israeli diplomat Abba Eban used to say that nations will always do the right thing after they exhaust all the alternatives.
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It's a madcap origin story that somehow repeats the same ABBA hits (plus some deep cuts) and delivers on even more thrills.
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"The decision to go ahead with the exciting ABBA avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence," the statement posted on Instagram says.
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Sweden is generally considered one of the world's more genteel places - the land of ABBA, IKEA, Absolut vodka, Avicii, Volvos and Spotify.
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The original, one of the few ABBA songs sung by Ulvaeus, borders on heinous in terms of how creepy its lyrics are.
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Then there's a room devoted to the ABBA Golden Years, which includes the mixing board they made most of their albums on.
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Since the ABBA museum was created with heavy input from the band itself, it contains its fair share of pretty glaring omissions.
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Here are edited excerpts from the conversation, set to the music of Abba, the Go-Go's, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan and more.
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" Stig Anderson, the lyricist and manager for Abba, established the prize in 1989, aiming to "celebrate music in all its various forms.
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The good news is that MMT seems to be pretty much the same thing as Abba Lerner's "functional finance" doctrine from 1943.
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In a summer filled with superheroes, sequels, and ABBA sing-alongs, the new documentary Three Identical Strangers is a breath of fresh air.
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Meanwhile - and while Obama may have been a lullaby, Trump is a wake-up call, a Sex Pistol in the land of Abba.
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In fact, when a 2016 BBC documentary revealed a list of the Queen's favorite songs, there was nary an ABBA track in sight.
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Eurovision is the world's largest non-sporting live TV event, launching the careers of Céline Dion, Olivia Newton John, ABBA and Julio Iglesias.
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It's fun, it's entertaining, and we can thank Eurovision for blessing the world with performers such as Abba, Celine Dion and Conchita Wurst.
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"The creativity and ideas flowing from the members of ABBA over the past few months have filled me with great excitement," says Fuller.
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Social and political upheaval also helps to account for the astonishing success of the first film, which was crammed full of ABBA hits.
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While fans found their way to the musical in their own time, those at the singalong were fans of ABBA from the start.
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The Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by ABBA manager Stig Anderson and the winners each receive 1 million Swedish crowns ($113,000).
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Since his arrest in July 2015 Abba has denied the charges, brought against him under an anti-terrorism law passed the year before.
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Victory in Eurovision has rarely translated to mainstream success, with the notable exceptions of Abba (the 1974 winner) and Celine Dion (in 1988).
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But, nowadays, even in Abba, in the heart of Igboland, many children in the generations after hers don't speak any Igbo, only English.
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And I'll admit it: at first I thought ABBA was trite bubblegum pop with a hint of exoticism because of their Swedish heritage.
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In order for this exercise to work, I'm going to have to ask you to forget everything you think you know about ABBA.
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Even with the whole thing about the museum, it's hard to explain just how huge a deal ABBA is in their native Sweden.
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It's lesser known, I mean ABBA fans will obviously know it...but I think people will really fall in love with the song.
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Now, I am not a fan of MMT, which is basically Abba Lerner's "functional finance," which while clever missed some possibly important things.
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"It is the normal Boko Haram style of attack, where they come and tear down villages," said Abba Aji Kalli, the task force member.
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Salma and Sabina had been trained in classical music, so had some experience when Amit Khanna asked them to sing on the ABBA album.
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Even with this career boost, only a handful—like ABBA and Celine Dion—have managed to achieve long-lasting global success after the contest.
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In other words, while no one in ABBA is deceased, VR images will be superimposed on top of the band to "de-age" them.
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A recent exhibition at the Southbank Centre in London emphasised the grimness of the period and portrayed ABBA as a "breath of fresh air".
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In addition to some ABBA classics used in the original musical, other tunes from the Swedish band will be included in the new movie.
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The playlist of 47 songs includes everything from ABBA, Michael Jackson, and The Bangles, to songs by Modest Mouse, Robyn, and the Spice Girls.
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Notable winners of the 61-year-old competition include ABBA and Céline Dion, though few others have achieved the same level of global success.
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The sequel to the guilty pleasure movie/musical jam-packed with ABBA songs was released in theaters this past weekend and it truly delivered.
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"Mamma Mia", a hit of the late 1990s based on the songs of ABBA, was the earthquake before the tsunami of "juke-box musicals".
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Pallotta: I'm going with "Avengers: Here We Go Again" in hopes the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe includes multiple ABBA musical numbers.
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And ABBA, the constant innovators, the wearers of genuinely horrendous sleeves, with their many perfect pop songs, offer us that chance most of all.
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At a great value, the Abba Patio Outdoor Umbrella fits perfectly into a patio table and offers a large canopy for plenty of shade.
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The illness of Abba Kyari, who is in his 70s, brings the disease into the immediate circle of 77-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel reminded President Charles de Gaulle that, in 173, following the Suez crisis, France pledged to support Israel militarily.
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Its music, which had glimmers of Abba and also Phoenix, had little to do with what was happening during the rest of the show.
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" Josh Abba of Sports Media World, who advises Tucker on marketing issues, said "the interest in P.J. Tucker is at an all-time high.
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Artists including film producers Pedro Almodovar and Michel Hazanavicius, Benny Andersson from Abba and author Ali Smith have come out in support of the overhaul.
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WHEN the Swedish Social Democrats unveiled a plan to force companies to hand over shares to its workers, opposition came from an unlikely source: ABBA.
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It's possible ABBA are also gearing up to surprise fans being that they've announced they're releasing new music for the first time in 35 years.
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For those of you who didn't read the biography (or Wikipedia), ABBA broke up after the two couples that made up the group got divorced.
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But if you wanted to see ABBA at their most iconic, I have bad news: you have missed the moment, and you cannot recreate it.
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Defined by Simon Frith, a musicologist, as "a bouncy beat, just one chorus hook and elementary lyrics", this was epitomised by ABBA, a Swedish group.
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They are Iceland's entry for this year's Eurovision song contest, best known for featuring cheesy ballads and launching the careers of ABBA and Céline Dion.
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In the middle of belting out ABBA, Sutton sees a text from a mystery woman named Allison pop up on her new love interest's phone.
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I find a super happy playlist on Spotify with Stevie Wonder, ABBA, Spice Girls, and Frankie Valli, and walk along the Thames and past Parliament.
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The four members of ABBA — who have sold 380 million records throughout their career — split in 1982, after the group's two married couples got divorced.
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Miraculously, that hasn't happened for me and the Mamma Mia soundtrack yet, but when it does, I'll probably move on to Cher's ABBA cover album.
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Could we have that holographic ABBA shipped to Los Angeles for one night to serve as the house band for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards?
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" Variety reports that the studio's announcement revealed the film will include ABBA songs that weren't featured in the 2008 movie, "along with some reprised favorites.
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Her brothers and sisters were gathering at her house in Lagos before driving six hours east to spend the holidays with their parents in Abba.
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ABBA are playing on the radio and through the window, I see sleepy commuters gathering at bus stops as the sun rises above the buildings.
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Photo by Åke E: son Lindman, courtesy of ABBA The Museum If you've never been to Stockholm, I highly recommend you check the place out.
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I know that ABBA's manager Stig Anderson was an extremely stern but often warm man, because the ABBA museum made sure to tell me that.
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"Abba was quoting the vector forces on various points of the four lobes, both individually and where they come together," Mr. Morse wrote by email.
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"Well, I have a really good teacher, and we do a little bit of everything," adds Cher, who just released her ABBA covers collection, Dancing Queen.
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Cher, the only musician to have a No. 1 Billboard hit in six consecutive decades, last released an album of ABBA covers, Dancing Queen, in September.
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Indeed, the singer — who will release her new album Dancing Queen, a collection of ABBA covers — is a fan of re-wearing clothes in her wardrobe.
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There's nothing wrong with Erasure's typically naff take on the ABBA tune, per se, but there's nothing about it that'd actually make you want to dance.
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ABBA previously reunited in 2016, when all four members sang onstage for the first time in 30 years during a special 50th anniversary party in Stockholm.
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But ABBA has big, cool plans for a hologram-fronted tour, and excitement around that bizarre idea has convinced the flesh-and-blood band to reunite.
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ABBA, known for a string of 1970s and early 1980s hits such as "Waterloo", "Dancing Queen" and "Take A Chance On Me", split up in 1982.
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The assets were confiscated as part of criminal proceedings against Abba Abacha, son of Sani, who ruled Nigeria for five years until his death in 1998.
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"Within one week, we secured the whole center of Maiduguri," said Abba Aji Kalli, a 51-year-old accountant who is also CJTF's state-wide coordinator.
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We would leave school during lunch, and drive around in her car singing Abba and talking about how we had to get out of this town.
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FRANKFURT — Scandinavia has long had a reputation as one of the most progressive regions in the world, known for generous parental leaves, bicycle superhighways and Abba.
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Now in its 63rd year, it has evolved into a global phenomenon, attracting superfans worldwide and putting artists like Abba (the 1974 winner) on the map.
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This musical arrives for streaming just as Abba writes new songs for a (holographic) reunion and theaters prepare for a sequel to premiere in two months.
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While fans have highly anticipated the sequel, ABBA founding members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus said they were not so keen on the idea at first.
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Following a crash in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Abba on Sunday, aviation safety experts and regulators from around the world are divided on the question.
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Group gym classes like yoga, meditation, high intensity training (Core Hit), abdominal training (Abba Dabba Do It) and total body fitness are provided at no cost.
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If you are unfamiliar, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical—but think less sparkly ABBA covers and more ballads about cannibalism. Yeah.
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If you need a bit of distraction, this film will have you thanking ABBA for the music—the songs you're singing, and all the joy they're bringing.
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Mamma Mia, 2008Streep was a full on dancing queen in the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, based on the songs of Swedish sensation group ABBA.
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Here We Go Again (though I've seen it a million times, as I'm a die-hard ABBA fan), and I stay to catch up after the movie.
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Mr. Mohammed and his son, Bello Abba Mohammed, were charged with diverting funds meant for the procurement of arms through the office of the National Security Adviser.
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AND FINALLY ... Music mashup A Swedish musician doesn't devote his talents to the music of, say, ABBA; instead he spends his time recreating melodies from video games.
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The camera lingers on the bikini-clad women as they frolic on the beach before the action shifts to the nightclub and its thumping ABBA-laden soundtrack.
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I got to talk to people about music all day - although I didn't get to control the cleanup-time music, which was always Abba for some reason.
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Like everyone else in the film, she is obliged at random intervals to stop whatever she's doing and to break into a song—any song—by ABBA .
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But like an impressive Pink Floyd or ABBA cover band, Down-N-Out is a spot on tribute to one of the world's most sought after burgers.
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Ron Prosor is chairman of the Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy at the IDC Herzliya and former Israeli Ambassador to the UN. View the discussion thread.
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When asked to admit something that would completely surprise someone, late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister told the Huffington Post that ABBA were one of his favourite bands.
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As "Mamma Mia!" did for Abba, "Head Over Heels," now in previews at Broadway's Hudson Theater, fits songs pulled from the band's catalog into a new story.
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Both the terror and magic of ABBA is that they figured out how to exist wholly outside of such depressing trivialities, finding immortality in order and cheer.
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The previous record holder was the Abba-inspired musical Mamma Mia, which was directed by Phyllida Lloyd and made $609 million worldwide ($144 million domestic) in 2008.
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Songs from the iconic movie Rocky Horror Picture Show remain, a lesser known Abba track will slay, and yes, Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" has its place, too.
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Abba Balomi, a 20-year-old, baby-faced hunter, wears amulets around his waist and a beige, quilted cloth vest designed to look like a bulletproof vest.
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Abba Tor, whose engineering prowess helped the landmark Trans World Flight Center take wing at Kennedy International Airport — and kept it from cracking apart — died on Feb.
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It was designed as a getaway for a member of the 1980s pop group ABBA, but has since been turned into a luxurious, eco-friendly beach getaway.
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His victory is "a popular call to be more evenhanded with his anticorruption campaign," said Dr. Sadeeque Abba, a political-science professor at the University of Abuja.
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Known as ABBA, the system is designed to prevent the team that goes second from being put at the psychological disadvantage of always having to play catch-up.
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Director of Green White Green: And All the Beautiful Colours in My Mosaic of Madness, Abba T Makama says that he made his feature to inspire the youth.
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Béchir Abba-Goni is a Postdoctoral researcher in Management Science at Université Aube Nouvelle and Marc Bidan is a Professor of Information Systems Management at Université de Nantes.
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As much of a national symbol as pop group ABBA and tennis ace Bjorn Borg, IKEA helped to cement the image of Swedes as practical, egalitarian and unsnobbish.
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"Many of us have been here since 7:30am but did not see the election officers until 8:15am," Abba Mustapha said at Shehuri North ward in Maiduguri.
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This trailer has all the same songs as the first one, which is puzzling because ABBA has so many hits to choose from (and more on the way).
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The name ABBA had only crossed my eyes as a nonsensical word on some black-covered album that had been out for a few years at that point.
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But each of those artists only gets a few inches of space in a room that's maybe a quarter the size of the ABBA museum it's attached to.
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To a thumping ABBA-laden soundtrack, the women's dancing takes centre stage in almost hypnotic fashion as they gyrate, make out, and shake their backsides in tiny shorts.
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In a rare recent newspaper article, Mr Buhari's taciturn but influential chief of staff, Abba Kyari, extolled progress the government had made in improving security and diversifying the economy.
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ABBA, the Swedish pop group that created the sacred ground on which almost all of modern pop music is built, are reuniting after 35 years and writing new music.
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Artists in favour of the proposed changes include film producers Pedro Almodovar and Michel Hazanavicius, Benny Andersson from Abba and author Ali Smith, as well as independent music labels.
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Abba, which was made up of two married couples, has been steadfast in its refusal to reunite since a breakup in the early 1980s, after both pairs had divorced.
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These comments will come as heresy to Dylan fans, but if wild musical popularity is what has come to qualify someone for a Nobel Prize, then what about ABBA?
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The phrase "Everything Now" appears at various points throughout the stream in multiple languages, which is the name of the joyous, ABBA-ish single that Arcade Fire released yesterday.
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But Everything Now's title track, released two weeks back, was more subtle than all that—a disco-pop song that had Win Butler bubbling above an ABBA-worthy piano.
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She'd spent the last several hours in a recording studio, putting the final touches on "Dancing Queen," her new album of Abba covers, which will be released Sept. 163.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish pop icons ABBA will release their first new music for 35 years with two new songs set for broadcast in December, the quartet said on Friday.
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The Tehran Prosecutor General, Abba Jafari Dolotabadi, said members of the group were arrested for gathering classified intelligence in strategic areas under the guise of scientific and environmental work.
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The day before, an Israeli diplomatic delegation led by Abba Eban had traveled to Argentina on the same airplane, ostensibly to participate in the 28503th anniversary of Argentine Independence.
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"Only the royal family, Astrid Lindgren, Abba and Bjorn Borg could compete in popularity," wrote one newspaper in 2018 on the death of Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea.
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So whether you're saving someone in cardiac arrest or simply want to get through your workday, it's time to throw on "Dancing Queen" by ABBA and get that heart pumping.
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" Lyngstad adds, "Our fans around the world are always asking us to reform and so I hope this new ABBA creation will excite them as much as it excites me!
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If completed, a deal might allow Tencent to combine its expertise in streaming with Universal's vast catalogue of artists, which include Abba, the Beatles, Drake, Elton John and Taylor Swift.
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Arguably, May had bigger fish to fry and in the future she probably wouldn't mind dropping the indie rock for a more traditional (and fitting) church music or Abba song.
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Radio France Internationale reporter Ahmed Abba was arrested in July 2015 and sentenced in April this year to 10 years on terrorism charges that rights groups denounced as a sham.
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That space, ABBA the Museum, is a permanent part of Pop House, a hotel and space for exhibitions about Swedish popular music that contains the Swedish Music Hall of Fame.
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Initially we were just a fairly generic functions band, but it got to the point when we realized that we were playing a disproportionate amount of ABBA in our sets.
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There was drinking, there was craic, there were lads singing along to Abba and Westlife and occasionally getting their mickeys out while jigging about on the top of moving vehicles.
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VINCENTELLI Oddly I'm not a big fan of "Mamma Mia!" but that's because I love Abba so much that the show messed with my pre-existing ideas about the songs.
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The Tehran Prosecutor General, Abba Jafari Dolotabadi, has said members of the group were arrested for gathering classified intelligence in strategic areas under the guise of scientific and environmental work.
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But the track pulses with optimism: a cheerful melody bolstered by a chiming piano and thumping beat that reach back to Abba, topped with a hooting sample of African flute.
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Accompanied by dancing meatballs and showgirls clad in blue and yellow, she waxed rhapsodic about Abba and Ikea, generous parental leave and, above all, the Swedish national tradition of seriousness.
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Eurovision, the outrageously camp transcontinental song and dance competition that gave breaks to Abba and Celine Dion, is viewed by hundreds of millions of people around the world each year.
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The music of the Beatles, Abba, and other Western pop groups helped launch the "Rock and Roll Communist Revolution" that inspired a generation to fight for Mongolian democracy thirty years ago.
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The contest, which aired in the U.S. on Logo, has launched the careers of the likes of ABBA, Celine Dion, Julio Iglesias, and Olivia Newton-John since its inception in 13.
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ABBA — one of the most influential groups in pop music and advocates for Dancing Queens everywhere — performed together for the first time in 30 years this weekend in Stockholm, Sweden. APPARENTLY.
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"After I did 'Fernando,' I thought: It would really be fun to do an album of ABBA songs, so I did," Cher said in an interview with Today's Kathie Lee Gifford.
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Other than the corny "Auld Lang Syne" or, maybe, deep cuts from ABBA ("Happy New Year") and U2 ("New Year's Day"), few of us could hum any appropriate chestnuts from memory.
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I don't really understand the whole ABBA thing, but I definitely do understand why there's a sequel to a musical starring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, and Pierce Brosnan, among many others.
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A night filled with ABBA and the journey of a soon-to-be bride (Amanda Seyfried) searching for her three potential fathers could be the recipe for a perfect Valentine's Day.
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ABBA holograms will perform 1 of their 2 new songs for a TV special later this year before kicking off their tour -- which will also include virtual reality of the members.
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"This is a part of your life, if you feel young and sexy at any age, Abba is the perfect soundtrack to your life," Baranski said of music by the group.
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From ABBA puns to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift jokes, here are some Mamma Mia memes and future film suggestions that would make even the great Meryl Streep proud.
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ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo" and had a sequin-spangled string of hits including "Dancing Queen" and "Take a Chance on Me" before splitting up in 1982.
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However, many opponents feel uneasy with the whole idea that money is always no more than "a creature of the state", as the hyper-Keynesian economist Abba Lerner asserted in 1947.
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When I finally ventured outside of Gold I found myself listening deeply, almost neurotically to albums like The Visitors and ABBA, and it became apparent just how poignant every song was.
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I know that the helicopter on the cover of Arrival (the one that includes "Dancing Queen") is extremely small, because someone fit it inside of a room in the ABBA museum.
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It won't be out until December as part of a TV special, but luckily you can get your ABBA fix this summer when Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again hits theaters.
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It is also a notion that is at the heart of some of the very best pop music of the 1970s: ABBA, especially, and huge tranches of disco (see "I Will Survive").
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The 72-year-old music icon had ABBA fans everywhere screaming with excitement last month when she announced that she would be recording an album of the legendary Swedish pop group's songs.
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Reporting by Desmond Mgboh in Kano; Additional reporting by Felix Onuah in Abuja and Ismail Abba in Daura; Writing by Libby George and Paul Carsten; Editing by Nick Macfie and Matthew Lewis
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His ear for talent is oversold, too; he berates his A&R staff for not signing ABBA after he has heard just three bars of "Ring Ring", the Swedish pop group's single.
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That meant I was raised on the sweet sounds of ABBA and Adult Contemporary radio stations—the first time I met someone named Fernando, I almost embraced him like an old friend.
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" In "There but for the" (2011), Miles Garth, another of Smith's brilliant punsters, turns the line of an ABBA song, "I believe in angels," into a fighting manifesto: "I believe in Engels.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish pop group ABBA is set to reunite for a "new digital experience" in 2018, more than 30 years after their last public performance together, it was announced on Wednesday.
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A MINUS Noura Mint Seymali: Tzenni (Glitterbeat) Like her stepmother, Mauritanian iggawin queen Dimi Mint Abba, Seymali has one of those foghorn voices that wears you down after it's knocked you over.
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The most retrograde of ABBA tracks, like "Gimme Gimme Gimme" and "Does Your Mother Know", are recast in a way that gives agency to the underserved female protagonists in the band's canon.
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Although it features Abba hits, including "Thank You for the Music", and songs from Andersson's musicals and solo work, he performs them alone at the piano without any accompaniment and without vocals.
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If you listen to like, ABBA, or like just a Swedish pop act, they do have very interesting hooks and things going on in their music, even though it sounds very poppy.
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Some of the country's lawmakers also violated screening procedures and failed to self-isolate prompting the President's chief of staff, Abba Kyari to raise an urgent public health warning in a memo.
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It's not just "Stayin' Alive" and "Work It" — you can compress to the tempo of hits like "Dancing Queen" by ABBA, "MMMBop" by Hanson, and "Sorry" by Justin Bieber plus so many more.
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And because the band has always been about having the time of your life, ABBA has decided to reunite, reports Rolling Stone, bringing us the joy we need in these fraught political times.
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"Vinyl" does the same bonding ritual with its viewers, barraging them with beloved '70s bands on the soundtrack, from Abba to Mott the Hoople, and mentioning everyone from Peter Frampton to David Geffen.
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Camilla is as blonde as Lisbeth is dark, so when these two Swedish characters are in the same scene you can have the pleasure of pretending you are watching an ABBA biopic instead.
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According to legend the gospels—written in the ancient language of Ge'ez—are the work of Abba (Father) Garima, a Byzantine prince who founded the monastery in the 5th or early 6th century.
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GLASTONBURY, England, June 28 (Reuters) - Abba-tribute act Bjorn Again opened Glastonbury Festival's famous Pyramid Stage in hot sunshine as organisers encouraged festival goers to put on sunscreen and drink plenty of water.
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Because it was where her father's family had lived for many generations, farther back than they could trace, she considered Abba her home town, even more than Nsukka, where she had grown up.
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Others, like Anni-Frid Lyngstad, one of the lead singers of ABBA who had to emigrate to Sweden with her mother and grandmother after she was born to a German soldier, left Norway.
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Some Eurovision artists have catapulted to international fame, including Abba, the Swedish quartet that won in 1974 with "Waterloo," and the French Canadian Celine Dion, who won the contest for Switzerland in 1988.
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The story of Meryl Streep's decades-old love quadrangle as sung through Abba tracks is easy to hate for its questionable premise and casting of A-list stars without A-list vocal chords.
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With a new album of Abba covers, a Broadway musical about her life and a no-holds-barred take on her career, the 72-year-old pop icon is as outspoken as ever.
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Eurovision winners usually have a shooting star-like trajectory that flares out shortly after their victory, but the contest has also launched some talents with longstanding careers — most notably Abba and Celine Dion.
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But it's just as likely that, I don't know, he just remembered that ABBA broke up and has repeatedly asserted that it will never reunite again, even though that would be dope as hell.
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Carl Magnus Palm, the author of "The Real Story of ABBA: Bright Lights, Dark Shadows", says that the group itself was nonplussed about such critiques: political messages "were a waste of a good tune".
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In the sequel to the beloved 2008 film, which centers around the music of ABBA, James portrays a young version of Donna (played by Meryl Streep), and sings along with her group The Dynamos.
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Still, ABBA lovers can enjoy the band's music, as the restaurant reportedly offers a four-hour dining extravaganza, inviting guests to watch and sing along to a show, inspired by songs from the band.
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Honored as "Best New Act," Swedish teen Zara Larsson performed a medley of her biggest hits, "Lush Life" and "Ain't My Fault" in an all-white suit with thigh-high boots reminiscent of ABBA.
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And more than any of the (oh so many) pop-songbook shows that have befallen Broadway since the Abba-spouting behemoth "Mamma Mia!" opened in 2001, "Ain't Too Proud" is a story of attrition.
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Photo by Åke E: son Lindman, courtesy of ABBA The Museum These days, many of the most in-demand songsmiths in pop music are often Swedish, but they are mostly behind-the-scenes players.
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To this day, ABBA are to Swedish pop music what The Beatles were to rock, or James Brown was to funk—a group that laid out a revolutionary new a set of musical values.
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Even if you ignore how totally un-rock-and-roll a move that is, there's something very ominous about the way ABBA: The Museum ignores things that aren't 100 percent rosy in the world.
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Magazine ____ With a new album of Abba covers, a Broadway musical about her life and a no-holds-barred take on her career, the 72-year-old pop icon is as outspoken as ever.
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Mr. Sanders later hit the dance floor to three songs: "The Way You Do the Things You Do" by The Temptations, "I Can't Help Myself" by the Four Tops, and "Dancing Queen" by Abba.
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She fed twenties into the jukebox and, to the mixed chagrin and amusement of all the metalheads at the bar, played hours-long marathons of ABBA, Gloria Gaynor, Madonna—anything she could dance to.
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Tehran's upscale northern neighborhoods had boutiques selling Pierre Cardin, cinemas showing Hollywood films, restaurants serving French food, and dance clubs playing Abba, while the southern stretches of the city were crowded with impoverished slums.
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Global impact The mall's unique concept and its success has gained international attention for Eskilstuna -- not an insignificant feat for an industrial steel town arguably best known as the childhood home of Frida from ABBA.
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The four members of ABBA, who have sold 380 million records since they formed in 1972, will have a hands-on role throughout the development of the show, which is expected to launch in 2018.
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"After I did 'Fernando,' I thought: It would really be fun to do an album of ABBA songs, so I did," Cher teased of the upcoming album in an interview with Today's Kathie Lee Gifford.
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According to the Herald Sun, the band members of ABBA have had their measurements taken over the past year, and the hologram's end result will resemble the band at their peak in the late-1970s.
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"After I did 'Fernando,' I thought: It would really be fun to do an album of ABBA songs, so I did," Cher teased of the upcoming LP, in an interview with Today's Kathie Lee Gifford.
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At 16, as a young Communist, he joined the underground and smuggled partisans through the sewers to the forests so that they could join a group of guerrilla fighters and saboteurs led by Abba Kovner.
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It took an out-of-the-blue suggestion from my friend—an unlikely ABBA fan in his own right, and also the biggest Cobain obsessive and conspiracy theorist I knew—to finally hear their music.
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This has, in many ways, acted as a shield: ABBA are allowed to a a pop band without being subjected to an interrogation of the slanted gender politics and barely veiled bitterness in their music.
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In addition to his musical output, it was recently announced that Andersson would serve as executive producer on an upcoming sequel to the film "Mamma Mia", a hit 2008 musical featuring the music of Abba.
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The track itself starts out with a few seconds of delicate mumbling from Win Butler before giving way to the sort of big, bright disco that wouldn't sound out of place on an ABBA record.
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Who else but Madonna would think to build a shimmering club banger around an ABBA sample—then persuade the Swedish pop supremos, notoriously protective of their own music, to grant her permission to use it?
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If The Beatles invented modern music and James Brown pioneered a pose, attitude, and edge that would be emulated for generations to come, ABBA was basically the Moon Landing for the Ikea-fication of pop.
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For clarity, I do live — and actually always have lived, save for a year in Bolivia a long time ago — on the side of the Atlantic made famous by Abba, the Roman Empire and EuroDisney.
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In turn, Abba Kyari, the president's chief of staff, made a rare public comment in an article for an Nigerian newspaper, accusing the United States and the European Union of working with Mr. Abubakar's party.
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And they seem to have decided to absolutely not fuck this up, by releasing single "Scared of the Dark," a bombastic, ABBA-referencing pop beast that will most certainly soundtrack someone's post-divorce drinking this year.
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The hitmaker performs many of her classics from her six-decade career in the show, along with some new songs off of her Dancing Queen album — an ABBA covers collection which was released on Sept. 28.
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"This rise in accidents is because of the militarization of immigration policy," said Ignacio Ramirez, director of the Abba migrant shelter in nearby Celaya, referring to stepped-up Mexican enforcement, under pressure from the Trump administration.
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These illuminated Christian manuscripts—at around 19953,500 years old, perhaps the oldest of their kind in existence—belong to Abba Garima monastery, which is perched on a remote outcrop in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.
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But at those times when the world seems full of agonizing and unreasonable things, and when the only cure is listening to "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA on repeat, it suddenly becomes extremely pressing.
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Replying to someone calling for Abba to play with a dumbfounded look and an "I don't think so," and revealing the precise fee Fleetwood Mac are asking for, he's sort of like the left's Jeremy Clarkson.
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Your guitar teacher or older sibling might have tried to influence your tastes because they felt ABBA made "cheesy disco pop," but they'd have an army of famous musicians ready to fight such an empty claim.
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Still, this shotgun wedding of song and script promised to be a piquant novelty among jukebox musicals, a form that has been multiplying (and dividing) like amoebas since the Abba-stoked "Mamma Mia!" conquered the world.
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He was best known for his years on the road with Queen, but he also worked with a star-studded cadre of other artists, including Paul McCartney, Elton John, Abba, Fleetwood Mac, Bette Midler and Madonna.
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As popular Swedish exports go, Backman is up there with Abba and Stieg Larsson; his debut, "A Man Called Ove," has sold millions of copies, and most of his subsequent books have also been best sellers.
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Most winners do not go on to global fame — notable exceptions are Celine Dion, who represented Switzerland in 1988, and Abba, who sang for Sweden in 1974 — but they can still command a passionate cult following.
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Especially if you're missing funky '70s graphics (à la "The Electric Company" and "Mellow Yellow"), bookshelves full of '70s and '80s records, Abba and Bon Jovi playing on the loudspeakers, and salmon and blue pastel colors.
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His first prom was so close to being perfect; he even had his first kiss, to the tune of the very ABBA song he'd always dreamed would be its soundtrack ("Take a Chance on Me," naturally).
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Some observers question how much difference new ministers will make in an administration in which power is concentrated in the hands of the president and a close circle of confidants, including chief of staff Abba Kyari.
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He has used Facebook's live-video service to stream his campaign, including scenes of him skateboarding, doing laundry, eating at Whataburger and playing rhythm guitar for Willie Nelson, who is to Texas as ABBA is to Sweden.
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Here We Go Again and just announced she plans on to release an ABBA cover album, has been especially critical of the president on Twitter, calling him "PRESIDENT TROLL" or using the toilet emoji to describe him.
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The song is from a 1981 album on the British Multitone label, called Salma And Sabina Agha Sing the Hits of ABBA in Hindi, and it didn't take long to find the other seven tracks on YouTube.
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Willie Nelson, Abba and, predictably, Simon and Garfunkel, the folk duo whose song "America" he used in a campaign ad, provide the soundtrack for the large campaign bus covered with his name in which he crisscrosses Iowa.
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Yet the Arsenal and Chelsea players lined up in a strange new sequence: ABBA (the first team kicks once, then the second team kicks twice, and then the first team kicks again) rather than the standard ABAB.
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The UN responds by making another movie about Abba that sucks so bad, it causes the sun to hurl itself into Jupiter causing all of our blenders to make nothing but the worst kind of virgin daiquiris.
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And maybe this element—this escapist aspect—of pop further explains just why people are clambering over each other to listen to ABBA in a small room with a ceiling paved with gold glitter in east London.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Theresa May boogied away one of her last weekends as British prime minister, showing off some of her famously awkward dance moves to Abba hits such as "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia" at a festival.
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Featuring naughty strippers, an Abba-ish quartet of mellifluously keening vocalists, a cameo guest star (mine was the novelist Irvine Welsh) and some airborne gymnastics, "Riot" doesn't seem to have an ironic bone in its bendy body.
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All the participants excelled, especially the choir, an adventurous ensemble that has explored all kinds, ranging from a choral arrangement of a profound Mahler song to (I kid you not) an Abba medley, from some years back.
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It was a movie cry, induced by that magical alchemy of Abba songs and a plotline that reminded me of my own quite alive, free-spirited mother whom I hadn't seen in months and missed very much.
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With bouffant white hair, a fitted suit and cane, the chart-topper and Oscar winner, 72, makes a stylish entry in the movie featuring Abba songs in which she plays the glamorous mother of Meryl Streep's character Donna.
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In 2014, Nigeria and the Abacha family reached an agreement for the West African country to get back the funds, which had been frozen, in return for dropping a complaint against the former military ruler's son, Abba Abacha.
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"Love Remains" is the album she's made with her family while taking a break from Lady Antebellum, and it's striking — a collection of hymns and contemporary Christian music delivered with extreme polish, like Abba covering the Gaither Family.
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She did, however, manage to find ways to integrate, with few or no changes in the lyrics, more than 20 other songs by the Abba writing team, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (with some help from Stig Anderson).
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ABBA the Museum—an interactive athenaeum for the art and artistry of Sweden's superfamous quartet—does not take cash, mostly owing to the deeply held beliefs of Björn Ulvaeus, the smaller and less bearded of the "B"s.
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