The same eveing when the wotes were all counted in Melodifestivalen 1974. Anni-Frid showed what a graceful winner she is, and walked up to Bruno Glenmark and congratulated him (and the rest of his group "Glenmarks" (Karin & Anders Glenmark (yes Gemini!) and Bruno's wife Ann-Louise Hanson (even thought their song only ended up on the 8th of 10 songs in the Melodifestivalen contest. This pic is From VeckoRevyn 1974.
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27 June 2007
24 June 2007
Fantastic ABBA !!! Here are the pictures from their incredible success in Australia. Now they are back in Sweden again.
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!
20 June 2007
18 June 2007
Frida on Swiss TV
Susanna in Switzerland and Harry in Germany has sent me new information about Frida again, thanks for that! On Swiss TV
there's a documentary series about the life savers who work with saving people when something goes wrong on the Matterhorn mountain. In the most recent episode the head of the life savers organisation, Gerold Biner, had been invited to the re-opening of the Heimberg restaurant in Zermatt which had been decorated by Heinz Julen. Heinz showed Gerold around the building, including the private areas and there she was: Frida!
Heinz introduced Frida to Gerold as "our big star", and Gerold was impressed! Heinz also said the he met Frida for the first time at the opening of the Into The Hotel, another project of his. Frida had sung Happy Birthday for him. Frida smiled and immediately replied that she has no intention of singing this evening, "as it's not your birthday". Gerold asks Frida if she likes the restaurant and she replies: "Oh yes, I'm here quite often and now it has a lot of new things."
In relation to Heinz Julen, you can see (and buy!) the FRIDA chair that he has designed on his homepage.
Frida at José Carreras charity concert in Sweden
Frida attended a charity concert at Raoul Hamilton's castle in Sweden last night, June 16. While the rain was pouring down outside the concert barn José Carreras performed a concert for a 700 invited-only-audience for his foundation, the José Carreras International Leuakemia Foundation and the Swedish Scout Movement. Among the prominent guests was the Swedish king who is involved in the Swedish Scout Movement.
The tickets were expensive, each guest paid SEK 10.000. In the picture Frida is sitting next to Raoul. Looks like they were having a great time despite the cold.
08 June 2007
Frida out and about - again!
What a relief for us hard core fans who started getting a little worried about Frida's whereabouts when she didn't turn up at the Polar Music Prize Award this year. She has a lot of other things to do apparantly.
In this picture, which was kindly sent to me by Susanna Staritz, Frida is busy attending the opening of a new restaurant called SihlCity in Zürich. The gentleman with her is her friend Heinz Julen who has designed the look of the restaurant.
Great to see Frida out and about and smiling too!
