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30/05/04:
More NEW Frida pics and ABBA in Sweden
As you probably now Frida recently attended the Polar Music Awards in Stockholm. One ABBA fan; Annette was there to meet Frida. While in Sweden she also met Benny at
his Mono Music Studios. Annette also did some site seeing and took many pictures of ABBA related places (ABBA in Sweden), Annette has kindly let us share them here with a description of each picture.
This is where we met Benny: in front of his Mono Music Studio. We sat on the
field when he opened the door, asking:”Are you waiting for me??” :-)))
Unfortunately I don´t have any pictures of Benny & me yet as a friend Remko has taken
them with his camera – I forgot to take pictures myself as I was as nervous
as can be…
There was a lot of advertising for Agnethas new album – but this incredibly
big poster was the most amazing I´ve ever seen!!! We wanted to take it off
and thought about making a tent or a carpet out of it… 😉
This is the square where the famous winter photo session took place – you
can easily recognize the beautiful houses in the background…I loved it!!!
Do you feel like you´ve seen these stairs before?!? Right, Frida walked them
up & down in the Head Over Heels – video – and so did I…….I just couldn´t
resist once I was there!!
I took this picture at Drottningholm Castle where the The Name Of The Game –
session took place.
I loved this place: this is where the four of them posed for the wonderful
People Need Love session.
….and finally there she is: beautiful Frida!!!! So close….
…and one more picture of Frida, as pretty as can be. The pics of me & her
were also taken by my friend Remko, so I cannot show them here (yet?!?). Hope you
enjoyed my colouring photobook of Stockholm!!
Thanks again to Annette.
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Agnetha would like to be Frida !
In the documentary “Agnetha”:
Lotta Bromé asks Agnetha: Who in ABBA would you like to be?
Agnetha: Frida. She was really great and completely relaxed on stage….. Every day I think about ABBA…
Agnetha enters Australia chart….
…at number 50.
Her last release there; “I Stand Alone” was number 96.
28/05/04:
There are worse albums than Funky Abba by the Nils Landgren Funk Unit (ACT, £12.99), but few have the horrible fascination of this spectacular lapse of taste from one of Europe’s leading independent jazz labels. “Funky Abba” is like a joke title you’d come up with in a game of musical oxymorons: “Brian Ferneyhough Remixed”, “The Jazz Soul of Andrew Lloyd Webber”, “Swinging Smiths”. (The sort of game where “Morrissey’s Meltdown” would get rejected for being too far-fetched.)
Yet Landgren, a decent trombonist and so-so vocalist has actually paid his funkateers to set up in Polar Studio, Stockholm, and work their way through the bland, tortuous chord sequences of Abba’s back catalogue: Super Trouper, Take a Chance On Me, Money, Money, Money and so on. Victoria Tolstoy and Sharon Dyall battle with two songs each and co-producer Magnum Coltrane Price raps ineffectively all over the place.
To be fair, there are a few good moments where you can’t tell they’re playing Abba. Landgren’s band are good at sitting on one chord and making the funk happen, as they do for part of The Name of the Game (which has some tasty analogue synth bass) and for several seconds in Voulez-Vous. You can tell how hard they have tried to make this a listenable album, with clever arrangements and harmonic transformations. Landgren even tries to make Dancing Queen sound like Earth, Wind and Fire, but that’s like trying to film a Confessions of … script in the style of Altman’s Nashville – right era, wrong sensibility.
Agnetha has given press interviews
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Another great pic from abbaonspeakingterms.com
This is the latest Agnetha newsletter:
Agnetha Speaks Out!
As the second single When You Walk In The Room is playing in dance clubs and being readied to ship to radio and record stores in June, Agnetha tells all in her new documentary television special!
It is called Agnetha. And, other than the release of her album My Colouring Book, it is undoubtedly the most exciting thing to happen to Agnetha and ABBA fans all around the world since the demise of ABBA.
Agnetha has produced the show with Director Magnus Tear and creative director Ola Johansson. An honest and revealing interview with Lotta Bromé is in English and Swedish. You will also see parts of the videos for songs from My Colouring Book, rare footage of Agnetha in her 60s solo career and from her days with ABBA.
Complete details — including airdates in Sweden, Finland and Germany (with more to come) — can be found on Agnetha.se.
Print Interviews!
In a surprise move, Agnetha gave phone interviews this week to select journalists and newspapers around the world. Look out for stories soon in the UK, Germany, Finland and Australia. Again, read the details at Agnetha.se.
Where to look for the interviews:
UK – The Sun, by Sean Hamilton
Finland – Helsing Sonmat
Germany – Welt am Sonntag on Sunday, by Miss Vowinkle
Australia – Herald Sun Melbourne, by Cameron Adams, Daily Telegraph Sydney plus more (Agnetha.se)
According to a post on ABBAsite Universal will release soem DVD EP’s, one will include Frida’s “I KNow There’s Something Going On” video. It will be calles
“20th Century Masters: Ladies of the 80`s” Here is where you can order:
http://www.dvdplanet.com/product_listing.asp?productid=43500&format=DVD
This comes from abbaonspeakingterms.com where you will also find futher details on cast and crew, promotion and more pictures ! They also announce that the docu will not be shown in Belgium or Dutch TV. If you want to get it shown there visit abbaonspeakingterms.com to help get it shown !
PRESS RELEASE TV Documentary AGNETHA 30 min ENGLISH VERSION
PRODUCTION: Agnetha Fältskog Production AB
BRIEF – TV documentary ‘AGNETHA’ – 30 min – The English version
Director Magnus Tear and creative director Ola Johansson has with great enthusiasm developed the idea and concept for the TV docu AGNETHA. The idea has during production changed and developed much because of the sensitive collaboration of the media-shy Agnetha Fältskog. The TV docu is shot over three days spread out on a period of one month.
Since Agnetha has decided to not give any more interviews it was decided initially that a docu, covering her work with her latest album and the comeback of a great artist, was supposed to replace the need of further interviews and public exposure. In that work a close relationship and trust was developed between Agnetha, Ola and Magnus and the docu treat was re-written several times. After further weeks and the 2nd shooting day they decided against all odds to suggest well-known reporter Lotta Bromé to get close to Agnetha in a real interview- her first in 17 years.
Lotta got into the production and together they all convinced Agnetha that a real life interview was the only right thing to do. Agnethas fallback would be to have the say-so to trash the material if she felt it was going to be unnatural, stiff or bad for any other reason.
Because of this silent agreement and in an attempt to keep the crew very small Magnus decided to shoot the interview himself with his father’s old antique super 8 mm camera. The edited and completed TV docu AGNETHA speaks for itself and so does the openhearted, frank and relaxed interview by Lotta that is the backbone in the TV docu.
It should also me mentioned that Agnetha has not been involved in the editing, on the contrary approved all versions of the docu at first sight. Apart from the interview the docu has real life scenes from Agnethas work in the studio, clips from music videos from her latest album �My Colouring Book�, retro stuff and �film-noir� sequences where Agentha is playing a role, LENA, in a love story with LEIF, played by actor Magnus Krepper. The TV docu AGNETHA is a piece of TV history about one of our times most significant musical heroines and voices that finally comes to life in documentary suited and made to her taste. The English version of the program is in mixed English and Swedish with subtitles. It also contains the sensitive question if ABBA will ever re-unit or not and a brief Swedish language course for the needy…
27/05/04:
Vote ABBA on 100 Greatest Music videos
UK Channel 4 are running a survey as part of their “100 Greatest” series. This time with music videos. The public chooses the favourite. You can vote for ABBA’s “Knowing Me, Knowing You”. You must vote 10 in total.
They desribe the video:
1. Abba – Knowing Me, Knowing You (1977)
AHA!!!! Swedish quartet adopt the classic ‘standing at a ninety degree angle from each other’ pose, while worried head-turns and wistful hugs suggest intriguing marital disharmony beneath the glitzy surface.
It is top of the list so not hard to find if you want to vote – Click Here !
ABBAsite.com now has a part of “Our Last Video Ever” for download, this is just a snippet were “Waterloo” is performed.
Click Here !
Terry Wogan played Agnetha’s new single, “When You Walk In The Room” for the first time this morning.
He was first to premier “If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind” in the UK, it made it to the Radio 2 B-list, hopefully the new single may make the A-list which means up to 20 plays a week. To start requesting the song just drop an email – Click Here !
Avril and Agnetha To Top Next Weeks Debuts
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Avril Lavigne and Agnetha Faltskog look like having the two highest debuting albums in Australia next week.
Avril could be in for a number one with her ‘Under My Skin’ album coming in at the top of HMV’s midweek chart. Former Abba member Agnetha is looking good for a Top 20 position with her first studio album in 16 year titled ‘My Colouring Book’.
Other albums set to debut next week include Speedstar’s second album ‘Forget The Sun Just Hold On’ and Rasmus ‘Dead Letters’.
By Paul Cashmere
Agnetha:
“I have been very sad many times. But I am not always sad”
Ana rticle appeared in Aftonbladet today with bits from the forthcoming TV special “Agnetha” where she is interviewed by Lotta Bromé. Here is a piece of the article. To see the full translation go to abbaonspeakingterms.com
�Interprets tragic songs�
Many of the songs on My Colouring Book are about broken hearts, sorrow and about missing someone. Songs like �Remember me�, �What now my love� and �The end of the world�. Agnetha’s choice of songs will be explained during this interview. “For me it is very easy to sing these �tragic� songs or to sing about the unhappy love, she says. When the Lotta Brumé asks Agnetha if she has been sad, she answers: “Yes, definetely. I have been very sad many times. But I am not always sad”.
From abbaonspeakingterms.com
ABBA In Concert DVD and The ABBA Story CD – release info
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ABBA The site have this info:
The live DVD ABBA In Concert and the compilation CD The ABBA Story are among the major ABBA releases in 2004. Here is some international release information for those products.
The 30th Anniversary year of 2004 has seen plenty of new releases. Here we will try to give you a bit of release information on two of those CDs and DVDs.
ABBA IN CONCERT DVD
The ABBA In Concert DVD was released March 29, 2004. Many territories saw a later release date, and in others it hasn’t been released yet. So far, it has been issued in most European countries, and also in places such as Canada, Brazil, Mexico and New Zealand. In Germany, ABBA In Concert spent three weeks at number one on the DVD chart and has been certified Gold. In the UK it reached number two on the DVD chart. So far, almost 100,000 copies have been sold of ABBA In Concert worldwide.
Here are some recent and upcoming release dates for ABBA In Concert, based on the best information available at the moment:
Japan: May 21
Australia: May 31
US: June
THE ABBA STORY CD
The compilation CD The ABBA Story is packaged as a book, and the liner notes naturally tells the ABBA story through the songs included on the CD. The liner notes have been prepared in several different languages for different territories. The first edition to be released was the FRENCH version, which was issued in France on March 2. This version has also been released in Switzerland.
The following countries are releasing the ENGLISH version:
Australia, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, The Netherlands, Indonesia, Italy, Norway, New Zealand, The Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland.
SPANISH version:
Spain
GERMAN version:
Austria, Germany, Switzerland
DUTCH version:
Belgium
The Netherlands
Certain other territories are looking at doing versions of The ABBA Story in their own languages. We hope to get back to you with further information.
Sång till Görel for sale soon !
It will be onsale at ABBA Hunt in the coming days.
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26/05/04:
When You Walk In The Room – chart action
According to a post on ABBAsite UK “DJ” magazine lists Agnetha’s “When You Walk In The Room”
as a new entry in their chart (Number 18). Its one of the remixes!! They add this comment:
“Sound factory takes ‘Aggie’ into commercial tribal territory with a top mix. Almighty also do the honours.”
Thanks to Marco from ABBAsite and Agnetha.se.
For more pictures of Frida at the Polar Music Awards ceremony visit Raffem.com and see lots more wonderful and rare pictures !
25/05/04:
These pictures come thanks to the wonderful abbaonspeakingterms.com
the latter pic is Agnetha looking wild in the video “When You Walk In The Room” she apparently plays air guitar
in this video !
The documentary will premier in Finland 3rd June, the following day 4th June in Sweden and to follow around the world. It has been reported UK stations BBC and ITV were in fights over the airing.
We will see snippets from 5 videos in the TV special. The Swedish version will be 45 minutes and the International with English and Wnglish subtitled Swedish will be a shorter 30 minutes.
Agnetha.se says “Expect to be dazzled by this honest, frank, revealing and refreshing look at Agnetha and her life.”
FOR MORE PICS AND INFO ON AGNETHA’S TV SPECIAL – Click Here !
Well not exactly. The actor
Jim Caviezel who played Jesus in Mel Gibsons controversial film; “The Passion Of The Christ” was interviewed by Swedish magazine Aftonbladet.
When approached by Aftonbladet he asked if the interviewer liked ABBA.
He briefly talked about his role in the film but was asking questions to the interviewer about ABBA, what they were doing now.
He is a big Agnetha fan and was asking if she was as beautiful in real life. He also asked what she was doing and was told about her new CD.
He says in between shoots he played music, including ABBA, he says he is a big fan, and why…… ”
Agnetha has the voice of an angel!”
Read the full article here.
24/05/04:
Pre-order UK “When You Walk In The Room” single
Agnetha’s new single is now available to pre-order at:
HMV.co.uk
&
Amazon.co.uk
You can pre-order both versions, CD1 and CD2. It will count to UK charts if you order to a UK address.
Frida at Polar Music Prize ceremony
Frida today attended the cermony for the Polar Music Prize.
You can watch a video of her arriving at Aftonbladet – Click Here !
Here are some articles relating to the return of “Waterloo” including reaction to its Top 20 placing:
Dotmusic
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Although the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest had been won by Luxembourg, the tiny country had passed on the chance to host the contest the following year so the UK stepped into the breach for the 1974 contest. Olivia Newton-John was the UK’s representative that year but the song that ran away with the voting was the raucous and catchy tale of love’s surrender sung by two glamorous looking couples from Sweden. Although they were far from unknowns in their home country it was their performance of ‘Waterloo’ that catapulted Abba to worldwide fame. The song was an easy Number One when released here a few weeks after the contest and as history will record was the first of nine for the foursome who spent the rest of the decade carving out a lasting pop legacy. 30 years on and the time is clearly ripe for a re-release so for the first time since it first won the contest, ‘Waterloo’ becomes a UK hit. It is strange to relate that despite the Abba revival that appears to have been going on for over a decade now, this is only the second ever re-release of one of their old tracks and as such is their first chart appearance since ‘Dancing Queen’ made Number 16 in 1992. ‘Waterloo’ itself has only ever been covered once before, Doctor And The Medics teaming up with Roy Wood on a version which made Number 45 in November 1986. The appearance of this single of course comes just a few short weeks after Agnetha Faltskog made her own solo chart return.
Drowned in sound
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Muse milk their album a bit more with ‘Sing For Absolution’ (16), f**king Abba and the re-release of ‘Waterloo’ somehow gets as high as 20 (who’s buying that record?), while Kevin Lyttle only manages 22. Then there’s some idiot from American Idol World Idol, Kurt Nilsen , at 25, beating the far more ace PJ Harvey (28).
MTV UK
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Outside the top ten, ATL ‘s ‘Calling All Girls’ enters at 12, The Calling ‘s ‘Our Lives’ enters at 13, Muse ‘s ‘Sing For Absolution’ enters at 16, Gladiator ‘s ‘Now We Are Free’ enters at 19 and the re-release of ABBA ‘s classic ‘Waterloo’ enters at 20.
Chart Chat
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It’s hard to believe it will repeat it’s original 1974 success, but to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sweden’s finest exports Abba this week sees the re-release of ‘Waterloo’. Not only was it the bands first number one, but it was also the Eurovision Song Contest winner of that year – I can’t see us listening to this years Ukrainian winner with such fond memories in 2034! Of course all of you will know this song so there is little point in me carrying out a detailed disection of the merits of it, but I also suspect many of you already have it on Abba’s greatest hits. Would be good to see it return, but the top ten looks well out of reach.
From The Sun UK paper 24/05/04:
By THOMAS WHITAKER
THE Queen is a secret Abba fan, a Palace insider revealed yesterday.
Her Majesty has a collection of the Swedish supergroup’s records � and occasionally dances to their tunes.
The royal insider confirmed: �She moves to the music.�
The Queen’ s secret passion was revealed after Prince Charles was invited to watch Abba musical Mamma Mia in the West End on June 10.
The source added: �It will be interesting to see if the Queen tries to get her hands on the tickets.
�She’s more accustomed to operas than pop concerts.� Abba found fame 30 years ago when they won the Eurovision song contest with Waterloo.
Songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and lead singers Agnetha Faltskog and Annifrid Lyngstad went on to get a string of No1s in the 1970s.
By the time they split in 1981 they had sold 350million records.
The group were once offered an incredible £1BILLION to reform.
But even the Queen’s wealth couldn’t persuade her favourite pop band to get back together.
Bjorn, 58, said: �It’s never going to happen. I haven’t squeezed into my costume for years.�
Here is an article about the Polar Music Prize and this years winner.
King to meet king, and he’s nervous
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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Critics and fans alike consider him blues royalty, but B. B. King says he gets nervous meeting a real monarch. “I never met a king before,” the Mississippi-born bluesman said in the Swedish capital, where he’ll receive the 2004 Polar Music Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf this week.
“I did meet the Queen of England once and I shiver every time I think about it now,” he added. “So I’m wondering what will happen now that I have a chance to meet the royal family. I’m grateful, but I’m still scared.”
The 78-year-old King and Hungarian-born composer Gyoergy Ligeti were selected for the annual prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music earlier this year. Both will receive the prize tomorrow, but the 80-year-old Ligeti had to cancel his trip because of illness, his assistant said.
Ligeti, who lived in Sweden during the 1960s, was “very unhappy that he’s not able to be here,” Louise Duchesneua said. “He was looking forward to be able to show off his Swedish.”
The $180,000 Cdn award, founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of the Swedish pop group ABBA, is typically split between pop artists and classical musicians. Previous winners include Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Isaac Stern, Bruce Springsteen, Pierre Boulez and Quincy Jones.
The academy praised King for his “significant contributions to the blues” and a “total dedication to his music, a rich recording history and tireless touring lasting more than half a century (that has) made him one of the most prominent figures within the blues.”
Ligeti was cited for “stretching the boundaries of the musically conceivable from mind-expanding sounds to new astounding processes in a thoroughly personal style that embodies both inquisitiveness and imagination.”
23/05/04:
Waterloo has today entered the UK chart for the second time at number 20. It originaly entered 30 years ago in 1974 after ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with it.
This is an amazing feat and posisbly a record, has a Eurovision song ever re-entered the top 20 after such a period?
SHOWTIME!: Yes, Mamma Mia!
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BENNY Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ Mamma Mia! — the highly-acclaimed musical — will open its Hong Kong season at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on June 9.
With more productions playing simultaneously around the world than any other current musical, Mamma Mia! is the world”s number one show.
The smash hit musical has been seen by over 10 million people worldwide. In fact, over 18,000 people see the show around the world every night.
Currently, there are 11 global productions running (eight resident productions and three tours), with six further productions actively planned over the next 18 months, and four openings, including Hong Kong, this year.
Mamma Mia! has premiered in more cities worldwide faster than any other musical in history, opening in more than 60 major cities since the first production in London five years ago.
The Mamma Mia! original cast recording has gone Gold in the United States, Britain, and Sweden, and Platinum in Canada and Australia.
The 32-member cast is headed by Sylvie Paladino who plays Donna, the mother of Sophie (Kellie Rode), Emma Powell and Jennifer Vuletic (Donna’s best friends), and Bruce Roberts, John O’May and Peter Hardy (Donna’s old flames).
Mamma Mia!’s sunny, funny tale unfolds on a tiny Greek island where, on the eve of her wedding, Sophie meets three men from her mother”s past who were on the island 20 years ago.
Sophie believes one of them must be her father, and she wants him to be beside her when she walks down the aisle.
The story-telling magic of Abba’s timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship.
An original musical, with a story written by British playwright Catherine Johnson and staged by a multi award-winning team, Mamma Mia! has been described by Bjorn Ulvaeus as “the musical we never knew we had written”.
Ingeniously interwoven into the story are Abba’s greatest hits including Money, Money, Money; Dancing Queen; Chiquita; I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do; Super Trouper and Mamma Mia.
Designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material and arrangements by Martin Koch, Mamma Mia! is choreographed by Anthony Van Laast and directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
The show is presented in Hong Kong by Cathay Pacific Airways; Harbour Plaza Hong Kong, the official hotel; OOCL, the official ocean carrier; MediaNation, official outdoor media partner; Bimbadgen Estate Wines, official wine; Metro Broadcast Corporation, official radio station, and supported by the Hong Kong Tourism Board.
Hong Kong Tourism Board”s South and Southeast Asia Regional Director David Leung said: “Our involvement in this world-renowned musical clearly demonstrates our commitment to the Hong Kong arts scene.”
Leung said Malaysians should take this opportunity to experience the diversity and sophistication Hong Kong has to offer.
On CPA’s sponsorship of Mamma Mia! in Hong Kong, marketing manager for Malaysia, Sharon Ho, said it was in line with their commitment to bringing the best cultural attractions to Hong Kong.
“Over the years, Cathay Pacific has helped stage a number of international musicals such as Miss Saigon and Singin’ in the Rain, and we are delighted to be the title sponsor for Mamma Mia!
“We are confident there will be a high level of interest among Malaysians for this show.”
22/05/04:
Agnetha will be broadcasted on German TV:
May 28th: Sat1 Blitz – short article
May 31th: Sat1 Blitz – 20 minute Agnetha-special
Thanks to Sue
Discuss it here.
There is big news in Expressen today about Agnetha’s documentary. The TV special, simply titled Agnetha will go out in Sweden on
SVT1 on June 4 at 8 pm.
Agnetha talks about her life in and out of the spotlight, the ABBA years including their final World tour, the current revival and chances of a reunion which will be answered in the show…
The special will show four video clips for the songs: “If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind”, “When You Walk In The Room”, “Sometimes When I’m Dreaming” and “What Now My Love”. Agnetha is also interviewed by SVT journalist
Lotta Bromé.
Lotta Bromé: “I was very happy that she wanted me to talk with her. It is a big honour for me. I am very happy that she trusts me.” – from Raffem.com
We will also see behind the scenes of the music videos and in the studio making the album.
The documentary is directed by Magnus Skogsberg and Ola Johansson.
Expressen article
More pics in our news pages; here and here.
21/05/04:
Agnetha’s new single UK release date !
Originaly the UK release date for Agnetha’s new single “When You Walk In The Room” was reported for July 5th but it has been brought foward. HMV.co.uk have the single listed for release on: June 14th 2004. There are two versions listed as with “If I Thought You’d Change Your Mind”, this time Sweden will get it first on June 9th. Here are the two versions that will appear in Sweden:
According to Raffem.com they say the confirmed date for airing in Sweden is
by SVT on June 4 at 8 pm. It will be called simply “Agnetha”
The scandanavian version will be an extended 45 minutes long and the international (English) version just 30 minutes. Sales for the album and the new single are expected to be given a lift by the TV special.
20/05/04:
ABBA Hunt will get better – Go there
ABBA Hunt is going to become something much better. We will endevour to make frequant updates.
News on forthcoming releases.
Catalouge numbers for new and current releases with images.
Please submit any stories that you like to this part related with collecting or even just memories of buying records back in the 70’s. We will also be opening a collectors corner which will display various fan items such as signed pics, records, gold discs, framed items, etc.
Submit your story now: thehunter@abbafeatures.com
Agnetha single in the US
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From Agnetha.net :
SoundFactory remixes Agnetha Fältskog.
THE NEXT SINGLE – Renowned Swedish remixer SoundFactory (Emil Hellman) has just completed the remixes of the next single from former ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog for worldwide release. “When You Walk In The Room” is the follow up to the first European single… “If I Ever Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind” from her latest album ” My Coloring Book”.
SoundFactory did four mixes of the following tracks :
SoundFactory Club Anthem
SoundFactory Dark Dub
SoundFactory Radio Edit
SoundFactory Dubstrumental
The first three mixes will turn up on cd-singles and cd-maxis with release expected in mid June. “When You Walk In The Room” will be the first single release from the album in the United States sometime early this summer.
According to abbaonspeakingterms.com the video will be released on DVD. The original videos for ‘Take A Chance On Me’, ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Waterloo’ and ‘The Winner Takes It All’ will also be included. Besides that the DVD will include an extensive picture gallery with both old ABBA pictures and shots taken during the filming of the last video. It is rumoured that the DVD release will actually be an extended version of ‘Our Last Video Ever’.
According to abbaonspeakingterms.com the maxi single for “When You Walk In The Room” will be orange.
It will be released 9th of June in
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Agnetha’s house struck by lightning
Aftonbladet reports that Agnetha’s house was last night struck by lightning but nobody was hurt…
Read the full article: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,480482,00.html
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