(Agnetha)
Posted on 09/15/2020 2:51:46 PM PDT by Borges
When you’ve sold as many records as Abba have – and only The Beatles have sold more – specific figures become hazy. They disappear into a statistical stratosphere occupied by a tiny elite of global megastars. There are simply too many territories to report on, too many releases to keep track of, too many vast numbers to juggle.
All one can say with any certainty is that the Swedish quartet have sold in excess of 380m albums and singles since they first came to prominence 40 years ago this month, winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with a performance of Waterloo that still ranks as the high point of the much-maligned transcontinental cheese-fest. At their commercial zenith in the late ‘70s Abba were reputedly second only to Volvo in their contribution to Sweden’s exports. Such was the demand for their music that their management had to arrange for royalties from the Soviet Union to be paid in oil commodity rights rather than the embargoed rouble.
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Beats the crap out of me. It’s like a parody of real R&R.
blech. No thanks!!
Heart came out at the same time. I think they still perform as well.
Barracuda is a classic.
ABBA is singular reading forward and plural reading in reverse.
Ha... I see what you did there.
Right now, I am playing that song, and just finished listening to “Waterloo”.
It isn’t rock at all. Rather it’s rock through a bunch of European filters.
(Agnetha)
I saw them when they finally did a North American tour in 1979. The tix were a gift from a customer of mine. Show was fine but once the 80s rolled around and they broke up and that was all she wrote until recently. They apparently have recorded 5 new songs but their release keeps getting delayed. Latest is next year maybe.
Easy. They write and sing melodic songs that are memorable.
What’s not to like, hot Swedish chicks that sing in that wonderful accented English. I have one of their songs on my phone, Comes up first in my playlist.
So it should read “Why is ABBA so popular.” If it was plural it would be “why are the ABBA so popular,” same as “why are the Beatles so popular.” With Aerosmith, would it be “Why are Aerosmith so popular?”
In proper British English collective nouns are treated as plural.
Detroit rock and roll fan here - greatly enjoy ABBA’s fun music - and totally enjoyed the Stage show Mamma Mia!, seen it twice.
I think I’m suppose to end this reply with: “Fight Me.”
1974 was the Allman Brothers, Skynyrd, Clapton, some fag named Elton, Jethro Tull, Zepplin, Yes, Who, Stones and several others on my turntable.
“I like Heavy Metal and Power Rock, but I am also a Karen Carpenter and ABBA fan. I love classical and classic country like Chet Atkins.”
No Heavy Metal for me but yes on Power Rock. Love ABBA and Karen Carpenter was a class of her own. Classic Country good, never a Chet Atkins fan.
Me, too. I guess that means we can’t eat lunch with the kewl kids....
Gotta be the outfits.
So they could have just as easily been named BAAB or BABA or ABAB?
You forgot BBAA.
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