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ABBA – Waterloo

6:08 pm

An evening pause: Performed live in 1974.

Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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5 comments

5 comments

  • wayne
    August 17, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    Abba –
    “The Last Video”
    (VEVO, 2014)
    https://youtu.be/8L6T6Yj5u4k
    6:24

  • Blair Ivey
    August 18, 2022 at 12:31 am

    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.

  • Simon Mytton
    August 18, 2022 at 9:13 am

    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.

  • Mark
    August 18, 2022 at 9:58 am

    Now I have to watch “The Martian” again. :-)

  • Doubting Thomas
    August 18, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    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.

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