ABBA – Waterloo
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Abba –
“The Last Video”
(VEVO, 2014)
https://youtu.be/8L6T6Yj5u4k
6:24
ABBA is a guilty pleasure of mine. Vapid pop rock, but I’ve read and seen interviews where the band members said they really wanted to get each song right. And English is not their native language. I can’t sing in English, let alone Swedish.
Fun, entirely personal, factoid. My youngest sister took my Mom to see the Broadway Mamma Mia!, and a good time was had by all.
I just checked and this was hosted in my home city of Brighton, UK. I was a bit too young (8) to have gone to see it though. Brighton Dome is a great venue with excellent acoustics.
Now I have to watch “The Martian” again. :-)
I like ABBA despite enduring enforced bouts of it. Our CO on our ship LOVED LOVED LOVED ABBA and so we listened to it at lunch and dinner every night for 96 days underway and again for another 58 days underway.
Some of my old friends break into hives when they hear ABBA but somehow, “When All Is Said and Done” I emerged still liking it.