New Frida interview! Now on YouTube

Thanks to Nina, you can have a look on YouTube! Click here! But I must say that this can't be the whole interview, can it? She only answers one question... Well, I guess we will find out.

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A very nice person sent the following article from the French newspaper Le Parisien. My French is very limited, but from what I can understand a TV-show about ABBA will air on French TV this Sunday, 23 March 2008. The producer also was lucky enough to meet with Frida in Zermatt for a long interview. If any of the French speaking readers of this blog could help me translating the following to English, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks to Kate we know have a translation of the text below. This sounds really interesting, I wonder what she will reveal. Perhaps an album produced by Jon Lord? Who knows. I hope the interview will be available from some helpful fans and maybe even on YouTube. Thanks again, Kate!

Unfortunately I don't have much time to actually translate the article (I'll do it a bit later if you want) but I understand that the information is hot so here it is summarized:

First of all, they remind us some well known facts about ABBA such as when they started/finished, when Frida and Benny got married/divorced, how many disks they have sold, where Frida lives etc.

But the essential is that this Sunday (March 23) Michel Drucker, famous French TV personality, is presenting his 'Vivement Dimanche' dedicated completely to ABBA. It is going to be aired in the afternoon on Canal 2. While preparing the show he went to le Valais and - with a little help from Alain Boubil - managed to get an interview with our beloved Frida. The interview is huge - 45 minutes - and they promise us a lot of confessions.

Wow and wow and wow! I only hope this gem will find its way to YouTube...

Love,
Kate a.k.a. olblackcat

 

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ZERMATT (SUISSE), LE 10 MARS. C'est un très joli coup que vient de réussir Michel Drucker. Pour les besoins de son « Vivement dimanche » consacré au groupe Abba, qui sera diffusé dimanche 23 mars après-midi sur France 2, l'animateur s'est rendu dans le Valais, en Suisse, où il a décroché une longue interview de Frida, l'une des deux chanteuses du célèbre groupe suédois qui a vendu 370 millions de disques. Ses membres se sont séparés en 1982, après avoir accumulé les tubes pendant neuf ans.
      De son vrai nom Anni-Frid Lyndgstad, Frida, qui fut l'épouse de Benny Andersson (l'un des deux garçons d'Abba) de 1978 à 1981, a choisi de vivre depuis longtemps et dans la plus grande discrétion à Zermatt, une station des Alpes suisses. Michel Drucker a pu la rencontrer grâce à l'un de ses amis, le producteur Alain Boubil, qui fut le premier à s'intéresser au groupe Abba au milieu des années 1970 et devint leur éditeur. L'animateur a pu interviewer Frida pendant quarante-cinq minutes - beaucoup de confidences à découvrir dimanche - pour ce grand hommage au célèbre groupe suédois qui continue à vendre quelque 2 millions d'albums par an.
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Comments

[johnsteven warren]

Thankyou so much Mikory for posting this article with pic,Frida looks brilliant and hopefully this interview will be available for all too watch soon!
Regards JS

[Kate]

Dear Mikory,

I think I can help you with this :)

Unfortunately I don't have much time to actually translate the article (I'll do it a bit later if you want) but I understand that the information is hot so here it is summarized:

First of all, they remind us some well known facts about ABBA such as when they started/finished, when Frida and Benny got married/divorced, how many disks they have sold, where Frida lives etc.

But the essential is that this Sunday (March 23) Michel Drucker, famous French TV personality, is presenting his 'Vivement Dimanche' dedicated completely to ABBA. It is going to be aired in the afternoon on Canal 2. While preparing the show he went to le Valais and - with a little help from Alain Boubil - managed to get an interview with our beloved Frida. The interview is huge - 45 minutes - and they promise us a lot of confessions.

Wow and wow and wow! I only hope this gem will find its way to YouTube...

Love,
Kate a.k.a. olblackcat

[Kate]

Omg, I have just realized that I'd written Canal 2 but it is in fact France 2 (not the same thing afaik)...

So, to clarify things:

Vivement Dimanche with Michel Drucker, March 23, Sunday, on France 2, a 45-minutes interview with Anni-Frid :)

[Kate]

Some more clarifications.

Mamma Mia cast and Sylvie Vartan will be present in the studio.

Frida is not the only one interviewed, we'll also hear Mr. Alain Boublil :)

Am I crazy? Why am I constantly thinking about Abbacadabra revival? lol

[Nina]

See YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lMguI4-0Ro