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The secret behind ABBA's success!

THEY REALLY SHOULD have been called BABA if you think of it chronologically. Because the story of their enormous success didn't begin with any of the two A's but with a B: Björn Christian Ulvaeus was the one born first - on 25 April 1945. The there was an A: Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, born on 15 November the same year. A year, a month and a day later her fiancé Göran Bror Benny Andersson was born. And four years later, 5 April 1950, Agnetha Åse Fältskog, the baby of the group was born. But you couldn't expect Stikkan Anderson, who was smart enough to sign them to his record label at an early stage, would think of that when the phone calls started coming in requesting them to perform. At that time they were known as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida, and that became tiresome for Stikkan to say many times a day. So he just took their initials and put them together and he had a group name for them - ABBA. And that was final. But not really, first he had to get permission from the large Swedish canned fish company with the same name. And just to make sure he had chosen the right name he let one of the evening papers conduct a survery among their readers and the name ABBA won with a landslide. And then it was really decided.
    But let's begin from the start: Björn Christian Ulvaeus was born on 25 April 1945 in Gothenburg. His parents were hoping he would be born on his father's birthday 22 April and his mother went to hospital in the morning that day. But Björn kept them waiting for three more days. Nowadays he is much more punctual according to himself. When Björn was six years old the family moved to Västervik, a town that was to become very important for his musical career.
     - What really made me interested in music was my cousin, Jon Ulfsäter, who also lived in Västervik. He was one year older than I, he had already been to England and was very fond of pop music. On Christmas day the year before my 13th birthday I spent a lot of time by the Ulfsäter's grand piano with Jon. We played together and I thought it was fantastic. When we came back home that evening I started nagging my parents: "I need something to play on!". Shortly there after his parents gave him a guitar.
    - I learned how to play very quickly, because I enjoying it so much.
The following summer Björn went to England with his guitar. He realised that the fun of playing the guitar also was a great way to communicate with people. Where ever he went he found that he got new friends as soon as he started to play the guitar. When he got back home he started a skiffle group with his friend from school, Tony Rooth. Eventually the group was dissolved and he and Tony started a new group with two boys from another group; Hansi Schwartz and Johan Karlberg. That was how the Hootenanny Singers were formed. Björn's mother thought they were so good so she enrolled them in a talent competition on the radio. After several radio shows they got the chance to play on TV's new entertainment show "Plats På Scen" - and the Hootenanny Singers became famous.

IN THE MEAN TIME Benny was growing up in Vasastan in Stockholm, he was quite a handfull playing tricks on everyone around him. There were grass snakes in people's beds, broken windows etc. The only time he was calm was when he played the accordion, and luckily he did that quite a lot.
     - I got an accordion when I was seven, says Benny. My grandfather and my father who both played taught me how to play and the three of us played together for years. We used to play at dances on Mjölkö outside of Vaxholm, it was so cool! The songs we played weren't exactly pop music, it was my grandfather's kind of music. When I came home from school one day when I was ten a piano was standing in my room. Talk about understanding parents! Since I already knew how to play the accordion it was easy for me to learn how to play the piano - and anything that is fun is so much easier to learn. And playing music was the best thing I knew.
     - I didn't listen to music a lot back then, but I had one idol: Catherina Valente! I was around 11 when I saw a movie with her - "Du Bist Musik" and I fell for her. I think the soundtrack from that movie was the first record I ever bought. It sounds a bit corny today, but I was only 11. And soon enough, Elvis and the others came along and my taste in music changed.
    Inspired by Elvis and other rock performers Benny started his own group called Elverkets Spelmanslag in Vällingby. In the group a girl named Christina was the singer. She became Benny's fiancé and they were blessed with two children. Their relationship didn't last, perhaps because at the time it was considered better if a pop idol didn't have a wife and family. Benny didn't dare to show off his fiancé and children in public. But the main reason was that Christina and Benny grew apart because they were so young when they became parents. They were only 17 years old. By that time big things had started happening in Benny's career. He became every teenage girl's idol when he was in Hep Stars. The other members of that group was Svenne Hedlund, Lennart Hegland, Janne Frisk and Christer Pettersson. Benny played the organ and wrote most of the songs for the group.
     Hep Stars and The Hootenanny Singers were two of the most popular groups in the country at the same time. They checked each other out from a distance and kept track of each others successes. And one day they met. Benny and Björn tells:
     - It was on a dirt road close to a folk park in Västergötland. None of us will ever forget that meeting, which would come to mean so much for us in the future.
     - We in the Hootenanny Singers did our last gig before we were going to do our military service and we were going to have one last party after the show. We were standing there on that road next to our car when a big Thunderbird drew up to us. It was Hep Stars!, says Björn.
     - We said hello, thought it was great that we finally met and we from Hep Stars got invited to the after party that the Hootenanny Singers were planning later that evening. Unfortunately we mistook the name of the town, Linköping - we went to Lidköping. We searched everywhere for Hootenanny Singers but couldn't find them. Eventually we decided to try and go to Linköping instead. We found them, but when we arrived it was 3:30 in the morning and the party was over. But we took our instruments out and started jamming together. Björn and I made a really good connection, says Benny.
     - The next time we met, Björn continues, was at a party in Västervik. In the middle of the night Benny and I got the idea that we should write a song together. The only problem was we didn't have any place to go where we could write it. I came up with the idea of using my father's office at the paper mill in Västervik. We got there and carried our instruments up a lot of stairs and sat down and wrote until the morning. The song that came out of it was "Isn't It Easy To Say" which Hep Stars recorded.

TODAY BJÖRN AND BENNY have lost track of how many songs they have written together. It's somewhere around 80 songs. The first international succes came with "She's My Kind Of Girl" three years ago. It went to number one in Japan. The same year was "People Need Love" released and went to number 1 on Tio I Topp. The year after came "He Is Your Brother" and "Ring Ring" which was a huge success in most parts of the world. In the spring of 1974 came "Waterloo" and with it world fame for ABBA. A success we never would have achieved without the girls, says Björn and Benny.

FRIDA IS THE first girl! She was born in the small village of Björkåsen in Ballangen, around 30 kilometres from Narvik. It was on 15 November 1945, the peace year. She was called Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad. Synni after her mother, who she does not remember:
    - I have never known my mother or my father. My father died when I was just born and my mother died when I was two years old. She was 21 at the time. She was beautiful and had a good singing voice, that's about all I know about her. When I was younger I thought alot about parents who I never got to know and love. Today I'm over it, I think... Maybe I will never really get over it. I have a tendency to brood over things. Maybe it comes from my situation as a child. Frida grew up with her grandmother in Torshälla.
     - I sang all the time when I was a kid, she remembers. I was a member of the school choir and I got to sing a lot of the solos. My first public appearance was at a Red Cross market in Torshälla. I sang "Fjorton År Tror Jag Visst Att Jag Var", but in reality I was only nine years old. And very pretty, at least I thought so, in my Norwegian national dress. I can still remember that dress in detail. It was bright red with embrodiered flowers everywhere. My mother's sister had made it for me.

ANNI-FRID WAS ONLY 17 when she had her first child, Hans. The father's name was Ragnar Fredriksson and he was a furniture dealer and part time musician. They led a happy family life in a villa in Eskilstuna. Three nights a week they played together in their band "Anni-Frid Four". Five years later they had another child, Lise-Lott.
     On 3 September 1967 Frida travelled from Eskilstuna to Stockholm to participate in "Nya Ansikten" a talentshow at Skansen. It was the day when Sweden changed traffic from driving on the left side to driving on the right side of the roads. It also became the day when Anni-Frid Lyngstad became a household name in Sweden. After winning the competition, the conferencier Lasse Holmquist asked Anni-Frid:
     - What are you going to do tonight?
     - Going home to Eskilstuna and go to sleep, said the tired Frida.
     - No, that's out of the question. You're going to be on TV on "Hylands Hörna". There's a car over there waiting for you, said Lasse Holmquist.
At home in Eskilstuna Frida's family were watching TV when suddenly Frida appeared on the screen. She sang the song she won the competition with "En Ledig Dag". She got a lot of applause and praise after her performance. Frida was 23 and had finally gotten her breakthrough - after 10 years of hard work. She started singing professionally at 13!

THINGS STARTED EVEN earlier for Agnetha, the baby of the group! Agnetha Åse Fältskog was born on 5 April 1950 in Jönköping, where her father was a famous cabaret perfomer.
     - I have felt the need to express myself with music my whole life, says Agnetha. We didn't have a piano when I was little, but I used to go upstairs to our neighbour and play on theirs. When I was five I wrote my first song. It was called "Två Små Troll" and it was, of course, very childish. The same year I did my first public appearance. It was some sort of a charity gala and there were lots of people there. I was five and had a very short dress. I sang "Billy Boy" and during the song the elastic band in my underpants broke and the pants started falling down to the floor.

AGNETHA CONTINUED TO write music and when she was 18 she got a recording contract and recorded her first song "Jag Var Så Kär". It was quickly followed by "Utan Dej" and "Om Tårar Vore Guld". Since then Agnetha has released five more albums, with mainly her own material. Right now she's in the middle of recording her sixth album.
     - It's fantastic, she says. Bosse Carlgren has written the lyrics, Janne Schaffer is the arranger and I have written the songs and I'm also the producer of the album. One song on the new album is called "Visa i Åttonde Månaden" it's sort of a lullaby for Linda.
     - I still have this huge need to write music, but nowadays it's harder. I have to work more to get them out. Earlier it was much easer, I could compose anywhere, on tour, walking in the city. But nowadays it's much harder. I guess I'm getting more critical of myself.

WHAT ABOUT ABBA's private life? Well, it's understandably something they try to keep private. But here's a little of what they told us:
     - Benny is the best thing that has happened to me, says Frida. We met when I was so lonely and about to give up. I had left Eskilstuna to persue my career. My two children stayed with their father where they were happy. Our divorce was a very friendly one, we agreed. But of course I missed the security.
    - We met at Kockska Krogen in Malmö. Björn and I came there to eat. She was there with Charlie Norman who she worked with at that time. We hit it off straight away. Afterwards, Frida and Charlie came back to our hotel. We drank coffee and Aalborg and talked until 7:00 the next morning. Later that summer we got engaged. We will get married when we have the time.
     - I had seen Agnetha on TV a couple of times and I thought it was really cool with a girl who wrote her own material - it's not so common. Then we met on Västkusten in TV-show where we both performed. It was a show with Jules Sylvain songs. I thought she was even prettier in person...
     - I liked Björn from the start. He was so cute, he came up to me and warmed my hands when I was standing on the bridge together with Agnetha Munther. We were waiting for our turn and it was freezing outside, says Agnetha.

ABOUT THE FUTURE Björn and Benny say:
     - We have to cut down on the touring. The tempo has been way to high lately. We will have to focus on recording albums and making TV.
About the success all four members say:
     - We think it has come because the group started so naturally: Björn and Benny met, they liked each other and started working together. Benny met Frida, Björn met Agnetha. The girls started to "help out" with the singing. We realized that we work great together - we like to be together and make music together. That's how simple it is.

VeckoRevyn 6 August 1975

Go and see "ABBA - The Movie" this Sunday!

Svenska Filminstitutet (The Swedish Filminstitute) arrange Den Stora Biodagen (The big movie day) this coming Sunday, 24 April 2005 at Borgvägen 1 in Stockholm. This year "ABBA - The Movie" is the big final film of the day. I assume it's going to be the new restored version that we all are looking forward to on DVD later this year. The program includes classic Swedish movies like "Fimpen", "Blåjackor" and "Fröken Chic". And also the big Afro American version of "The Wizard of Oz", called "The Wiz", with Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the scarecrow. "ABBA - The Movie" starts at 9.30 pm. Tickets cost only SEK 20, and you can buy them from 11.30 am in Filmbutiken. Click on the picture for more details.

"I went to a sex club with Björn and Benny."

Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin was recently in Stockholm for a concert. He also gave an interview to Carina Berg at TV4. In the interview he told Carina that when Led Zeppelin was recording in the Polar Music Studios in 1978 he went out one night with Björn and Benny. They had drinks at a sex club, and he was very surprised when suddenly mattresses were brough out and people started having sex on the floor. In the TV-interview on TV4 he said "- Björn and Benny, do you remember when you used to escape from your women?". At the time Björn was married to Agnetha Fältskog, they got divorced the year after. Benny married Anni-Frid Lyngstad that year, their marriage lasted until 1981.
     Görel Hanser, spokeswoman for Björn & Benny, says that this is absolutely not true.

Frida - the album that never was

Article from Aftonbladet 4 April 1999. This shows that Frida was planning, even started to make another album after the success of "Djupa Andetag". I've just learned that one of the tracks Frida tried out on a demo recording was "Wonderwall" by Oasis! But then tragedy struck and nothing came of it. Let's hope the rumours of more recordings with Frida this year are true. I wonder if some songs were recorded properly in 1999 and if we will ever get to hear them...

Now the ABBA-star is back - her new CD will be released soon.
On Tuesday the new ABBA-musical "Mamma Mia!" opens in London. On the same day it's 25 years since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with "Waterloo".
På tisdag är det premiär på den nya ABBA-musikalen ”Mamma Mia!” i London.
The difference between Agnetha's and Frida's careers is that Frida's is still alive. She is recording a new album right now.
     - The music is a hobby for Frida, says Marie Ledin, head of the record company Anderson Records. Her last CD was a comeback after 12 years of silence. It was a success. And if everything goes according to plan, a new one will be released this fall or early next year.
     - We have started recording demos, but we don't know if the album will be in English or in Swedish yet, says Frida's personal manager Thomas Johansson. He is also the head of EMA Telstar who was ABBA's promotion company which organised their tours.
     - To Frida, the music is more of a hobby. She is not that interested in doing interviews, appearing on TV or going on tour. She does not have to release a new album every other year like other artists. It's not about financial matters for her, it's about the desire to sing, says Marie Ledin. The new album will be recorded in Frida's son Hans Fredriksson's recordingstudio in Trosa. Today he works as a sound technician and cooperates with his mother. On the last album "Djupa Andetag" from 1996 she collaborated with Anders Glenmark. He wrote the music, produced and wrote the lyrics in close contact with Frida.
    - I think it was Thomas Johansson who suggested that we should work together. It was a lot of fun working with Frida, absolutely no problems. She is such a professional, says Glenmark.

BORN IN NORWAY
Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born on 15 November 1945 in Ballangen, close to Narvik in norther Norway. Her father was a German soldier and when he, without knowing that his young mistress was pregnant, left Norway 19 year old Synni Lyngstad was rejected by the community. She died two years later. To spare Frida from the stigma of being the child of a German soldier her grandmother brought her to Eskilstuna in Sweden.
When Frida was only 13 she got her first singing job in a restaurant. In the early 60's she sang with a lot of different bands. In one of the bands was a bassplayer, Ragnar Fredriksson, who she fell in love with. They got married and had their first child Hans when Frida was 18 years old. Four years later she gave birth to a daughter, Liselott.

PERFORMED ON HYLANDS HÖRNA
Her future as a housewife seemed to be mapped out. But in 1967, only six months after Liselott was born, she won the talent contest "New Faces" and got to appear on the Hylands Hörna TV-show. After that things really started to happen. She met Benny Andersson, teen idol in Hep Stars. They got engaged in 1969.
     - There was so much love between those two. When they met they fell in love immediately, says Little Gerhard, who at the time was working as a talent scout.
Around the same time Benny produced Frida's first album. Even though it was a success, she decided to participate in the Melodfestival with Agnetha, Björn and Benny.

MET HER FATHER
Frida enjoyed life after ABBA's victory with "Waterloo" in Brighton 1974. Unlike Agnetha, Frida appreciated the attention.
    - Frida was always carefull with her looks and took good care of herself. Agnetha preferred to sleep or have a glass of whiskey with me when we were on tour. But there was not a lot of partying on ABBA's tours says Bosse Norling.
In the middle of ABBA's huge success something life altering happened to Frida. Out of the blue her German father, who she always had thought was dead, turned up.  A relative to him hade read the biography of Frida in a German magazine.

Both Frida and Agnetha have denied the rumours that they didn't get along and were enemies. But they were never really friends either. The stories about their fights have been told many times. In the book "The Name of the Game" the authors claim that Frida and Agnetha hit each other with gold records!

Frida and Benny's relationships seemed solid. When Agnetha and Björn divorced in 1978 they went the opposite way - they got married. It lasted until February 1981. The reason was that Benny had met another woman, Mona Nörklit, who he married at the end of that year. "Hon Fick Som Hon Ville" on Frida's latest album is about the difficult separation.
     - In some cases you don't even know when the break up is coming. When it comes to my marriage to Benny there were so many other things surrounding ABBA that was disturbing, Frida said when the last CD was released.

In 1986 Frida moved to Fribourg in Switzerland. The reason was a new man, the Italian prince Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen. In her new life there was little room for her music, but she had a hit in 1987 with Ratata; "Så Länge Vi Har Varann".

WORKS FOR HER FOUNDATION
She got involved in environmental issues and became the spokeswoman for The Natural Step. Today she is raising money for her own foundation - The Anni-Frid Lyngstad Foundation - which let young people go to summer camps and learn about protecting the environment. In 1992 she agreed to do her first TV-interview on Swedish Television for years. She was interviewed by Stina Dabrowski who she gave a mini compost, a little box with worms in it.

In 1996 she released the successfull album "Djupa Andetag" and now she is working on the sequel. Frida is on her way back.

Agnetha & Frida interview June 1975

In view of the previous entry here, the 1975 tour, I thought it could be interesting to read this interview with Agnetha and Frida from the same month, June, in 1975.

Half of ABBA are sitting opposite me with their hands in their laps. Agnetha Fältskog has a blue denim outfit with flowers dancing over the bellbottoms. Her blond, long hair falls down on her shoulders. With her healthy skin and her clear, blue eyes she is the typical Swedish girl. Anni-Frid Lyngstad, in white pants and a white blouse, has a more dangerous look. Her eyes sparkles,  sometimes they look happy, sometimes melancholy. Her red-brown hair curles around her forehead. We are sitting and discussing the other half of ABBA Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Bjorn is married to Agnetha and Benny lives with Frida. How can they live and work together?

Frida: ­ Sometimes you're not in the mood or even angry, but it's OK to be that. Just like in a family. And we're always in a good mood when we are performing. You have so many other things to concentrate on then. You don't have the time to be angry.

Agnetha: ­ Bjorn and I fought much more before, but that was probably because we didn't know each other that well. I think it's the same with the group. We learn to accept and tolerate each others differences. Both Frida and I temperamentfull, with very big mood-swings. But we are seldom angry for long. We may get depressed sometimes and it's a funny thing it usually happens at the same time for me and Frida.

Frida: It's strange, but I'm more often depressed now than I was before the Eurovision Song Contest [when they won with Waterloo]. Now the pressure is bigger. We have to work much harder both in Sweden and abroad.

Agnetha: Yes, we have to work even when we're ill. During the long European tour last summer, we only cancelled once. It was when Frida got a very bad throat infection and couldn¹t sing at all.

Frida: ­ Wait, we're not miserable all the time. We have a lot of good times in between. And we don't feel that the success has come too soon or too easily. We have, all four of us, worked very hard in the music business for many years. But of course, you get tired of yourself sometimes. I mean in this job you look at yourself in the mirror all the time. You have to look your best. And on top of that you see your face in almost all the papers almost all the time. Sometimes I really want to change my looks - create a new Frida.

Agnetha: ­ Yes, it's not very vigorating to be on tour. You get nervous, your skin, your hair, everything looks terrible. Mostly because of the lack of sleep I think. It's really hard being on the road. Sometimes I think it cost a lot more than it's worth.

Frida: ­ In these situations it's important that we stay together and keep our spirits up. The sense of security in the group is essential ­ it has to become your home. But this summer will be different. The folkpark tour is carefully planned. We start on Midsummers Day (21 June) in Skelleftea [in the northern part of Sweden] and then we work our way down to the southern parts. During 17 days we will do 14 concerts. That means we will have three days off. I'm really looking forward to meet the folkpark audiences again. We haven't met them since we became ABBA.

Agnetha: ­ Now with all the success and attention we're getting the demands on us gets a lot bigger. Björn and I have been married since 1971 and we usually spend our summers with our daughter Linda (she's two and half years old now) on the island in the archipelago of Stockholm. Frida and Benny has a house too on the same island, not far from us. I always feel very guilty when I'm away from Linda. I have an au-pair who stays with her when we are away. And I always promise myself that when I come home I will spend all my time with her. But that never happens, I have so many other things I have to do even when we are home. But sometimes I just sit with Linda at the piano and we sing and play together.

Frida: When it comes to the children, I¹ve had it a little easier than Agnetha, I think. When I divorced my husband I had nowhere to go so he got the custody of the children. Hans is 12 now and Lise-Lott is 8. The hardest time of my life was when I had to leave my children. But they have always been very happy with their dad. And now they visit me as often as possible.

Benny has two children from an earlier marriage, Peter 11 and Helene 9. His children visits us regularly too so we are quite a big family occasionally.

Agnetha: ­ Benny's and Frida's kids come over to our house on the island and they take really good care of Linda.

Frida: They sing a lot together. Hans has a marvellous voice. Lotta is more of a listener I think. At the moment she is writing a little book.

Agnetha: Frida and I are quite different on stage. I'm more shy, something I have to work very hard with. But I think it's easier in a group like ABBA, where we know each other so well. And we are always very well received whereever we perform, and that helps a lot when you are shy.

Frida: I love the stage. It's the happiest time of my life when I go on. On the stage I'm completely open and willing to give all. It's so wonderful to meet the audience. But in my private life it's quite different. I don't like be recognized in the street.

Agnetha: I think it's something you have to learn to live with. I hate it when I'm standing in line buying groceries and I see how everyone around me notices exactly what I'm buying.

Frida:I have realized that since we have become a success even some of the people you thought were your friends start treating you strangely. I really hate it when people are smiling with their mouths but their eyes are very, very cold.

Hänt I Veckan 5 June 1975

ABBA Live in Eskilstuna 28 June 1975

My dear friend Magda from Romania had never heard the live recording of ABBA's concert in 1975. Now, 30 years later she has and here is her review. Unfortunately the recording Magda got hold of does not include the two first songs that ABBA opened with; "Hey Hey Helen" and "He Is Your Brother", but the rest of the songs, 14 of them are there. It's a real pity we never got any official live recordings from these early dates in ABBA's career. I think you can hear that Eskilstuna was Frida's hometown - she is definitely giving it all - and then some. I still get furious when I think of the time I read that Stikkan Anderson offered Sveriges Television to follow the 1975 folk park tour and make documentary/concert show for TV. Sveriges Television declinded. Anyway here's Magda review of the show:

A time when ABBA was still “small”..almost as “small” as in the puppets clip from last year. It gave me a smile imagining the people watching the ones who would become one of the biggest band in history. No sweaty obsessed crowds yet. And shows a part of ABBA’s magic sound… even the early live performances sound so close to the studio ones, a “rara avis” nowdays when you go to a live show and wonder if the group on the stage really performs the same song you liked when you heard it on the radio. style="color: #ff3300;">Hasta Manana with Bjorn intro – I wish I knew what he is saying; If you had any doubt , this song shows this is LIVE . Agnetha puts a lot of effort in here. Sitting In The Palmtree Good job, Björn!

Intermezzo No.1 Every time I hear it I have in mind the image "ABBA - The Movie" created. Is Benny jumping up and down on the chair in Eskiltuna? Cause the tempo is great and you wouldn’t know if is Australia or Eskiltuna if you didn't know it from the beginning. Gonna Sing You My Love Song It is like Frida tries to say “Here I am, listen to me! Am I good or what ?” A real super version that I would love to hear after a “Tretow touch”. Rock’N’Roll Band Totally Frida. Wow, was she “in voice” or what?! Watch Out I listened to it by curiosity, not one of my favourite ABBA songs and still... I can notice the voice effort and accuracy of the live performance. Very rocky for that time. S.O.S. Ooops! The famous “second verse sung by Frida” version. Was that the time when Agnetha decided to remove the tonsils? What happened there? I can’t hear “Itried to reach for you”, the verse is changed? If you are not an ABBAnatic you won’t “feel” anything changed, would you? So Long Listen Benny’s piano! Rocky rocks! Is it me or can I only hear Frida? The tempo is so high! And the ending is not the one you've gotten used to, but longer.The crowd sounds pleased! Again I wish I knew what they say to the audience. I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do When the voices go higher makes me close my eyes “Will theyl reach the right note?” and then “Whew! They did!” Live versions are really thrilling! I’ve Been Waiting For You Another song that reminds me of “Australia-to come show” I almost see Ashley walking on the beach. Well done, Agnetha! I love the simple end. Honey Honey I love the saxophone.Gives me the impression of another Frida leading song. Waterloo First verse, first impression: again Frida rocks! And seems that even the audience is singing along. A totally pleasant surprise, more than I expected in fact. Became more than just a collector's interest, I would make it an album!