The ABBA World network has grown two new features today.
ABBA World now has a YouTube channel featuring ABBA and related videos.
ABBA World is also on Twitter, so you can follow all the latest updates.
Visit the YouTube channel right now for an all new video, when Christopher Patrick, author of the book ABBA Let The Music Speak, appeared on Australia’s Morning Show this week.
As you probably know ABBA World has the internet’s most comprehensive ABBA links section, with every known ABBA or related site ranked and categorised.
Between 11 and 19 April I have rechecked every single link, updating 126 links and removing 248 dead or duplicate links. There have also been some updates with site ranks and comments, plus a few other changes to the links section.
As of today there is a total of 1125 links, with more still to come. So if you’re ever in search of ABBA on the web, there is only one place to go – ABBA World!
Today marks the 35th anniversary of ABBA’s historic win of the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Waterloo’.
To many people this is the defining moment in ABBA’s history. But is it really?
To countries such as the USA and Australia the ESC meant nothing at the time. ABBA’s emergance was probably the first time that many people outside of Europe had even heard of the contest.
It was the 1975 hits ‘SOS’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ that created the ABBA phenomenon.
So is ‘Waterloo’ and the ESC win really that important to ABBA history?
‘Waterloo’ is completely atypical of what ABBA was capable of. It is nothing like anything else in the ABBA catalogue, except for perhaps ‘Ring Ring’, which was created for the same purpose.
It is true to say that ‘Waterloo’ and the ESC performance was the first time that ABBA really got noticed outside of Europe, especially in the English-speaking world, and without it it’s possible that the later classics may never have gained attention.
But it could also be said that the quality of ‘SOS’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ and then later singles would have become international hits anyway and led to ABBA’s enduring success.
