Now they are finally back home. After two intsense weeks in Australia ABBA returned to Sweden, to their own homes, their own beds, ordinary Swedish cooking and the much sought after privacy at their Lidingö villas.
On these two pages you see the proof of their success, if proof would be necessary, Because ABBA hit Australia like a typhoon. The prices for the tickets skyrocketed to up to five times the originl fee on the black market, The teenagers were screaming and the older women in the audenice cheered of course.ABBA The Phenomenon made bigger headlines than a kangaroo having given birth to 25 baies. In other words, everythings was just as exptected. The European leg of the tour was a little easier. ABBA didn't have to stay in their hotel rooms for almost 24 hours a day. However, one day they made trip by boat to Port Philip Bay outside of Phillipe Bay outside of Melbourne. It resulted in that instead of having writing autographs for teenagers, they had to write autopgraphs to the fishermen, who for the day couldn't care about fishing at all as long as ABBA were close by.
Right now the group are resting and recharching their batteries at home. Benny and Frida had planned to take a two weeks
vacation arbroad, but they changed their mind.
The next stop on thir world promotional tour will be USA. After that they group will enjoy a goood old archipelago holiday on their own private island, called Viggsö, But there will be not rest for the group, at the same time they are expected to write new material. A new album is planned for Christmas.
ABBA's enormous popularity shows no sign of slowing down in Australia. But there are always nasty journalists who just wrie stories based on no reailty check at all. The Englishman Anthony Thorncrofft is claiming that ABBA are as entertaing as the Black Death. Apart from the fact "that Agnetha and Frida are shaking their behinds like Swedish au-pairgirls." But I guess that's his opinion!