ABBA has celebrated their 50th anniversary of their Eurovision win with “Waterloo” in a new statement. The Swedish icons comprised of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad, won Eurovision back in 1974 after performing in the final at the Brighton Dome, which has only increased their international popularity. Furthermore, the band released a 50th-anniversary reissue of their iconic album “Waterloo” to commemorate the milestone.
The band said, “It’s slightly dizzying and deeply humbling to think that millions of you who saw us for the first time in the Eurovision final 1974 have passed our music on not only to one generation, but to several. We see evidence of that every time one of us visits ABBA Voyage in London, and it’s because of this that we can celebrate the 50th Anniversary of that event in the knowledge that our songs still resonate around the world.” ABBA Voyage is the virtual production that sees a “digital” version of ABBA (or ‘ABBAtars’) performing alongside a 10-piece live band.
Benny Andersson has recorded a short piano piece called the ‘Piano Moment’ that will be experienced live and will be available in London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Stockholm simultaneously. The different renditions of the piano piece will be linked together every hour on the landmark anniversary. Also, they are reportedly set to take their acclaimed ‘Voyage’ hologram show to Las Vegas.
ABBA has performed some of the greatest hits of all time, including “Dancing Queen,” “Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!,” and “Lay All Your Love On Me.” Moreover, ABBA’s music was adapted into a stage musical named “Mamma Mia!”, which toured worldwide and is still in the top-ten longest-running productions on Broadway and the West End. A film of the same title, released in 2008, was the highest-grossing film in the UK that year. A sequel, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” was released in 2018
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