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ABBA Tribute Concert

Report and Photos by Penny Sheltz
Abacoa has free tribute concerts each month at their
amphitheater and thousands turn out with the chairs and blanket
to enjoy great music. November was the ABBA concert.
ABBA is a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972
by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and
Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
The group’s name is an acronym of the first letters of their first
names. Widely considered one of the greatest musical groups of
all time, they became one of the most commercially successful
acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide
from 1974 to 1983. They have achieved 48 hit singles.
ABBA had eight consecutive No. 1 albums in the U.K.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. Ten years
in 2010. In 2015, their song Dancing Queen was inducted into after the group broke up, a compilation, ABBA Gold, was
the Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall of Fame. Their genres released, becoming a worldwide best-seller.
include pop, rock, and disco, and years active: 1972 to 1983 ... In 1999, ABBA’s music was adapted into Mamma Mia!, a
2017 to the present. successful musical that toured worldwide. A film of the same
In 1974, ABBA was Sweden’s first winner of the Eurovision name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in
Song Contest with the song Waterloo, which in 2005 was chosen the United Kingdom that year. A sequel, Mamma Mia! Here
as the best song in the competition’s history as part of the 50th We Go Again, was made in 2018 and it was also announced the
anniversary celebration of the contest. During the band’s main band, after 35 years of being inactive, had reunited and recorded
active years, it consisted of two married couples. With the two new songs for Voyage, their first studio album in 40 years,
increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered, which scheduled for release in 2021.
ABBA is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with
sales estimated at 150 million records and the group was ranked
third best-selling singles artists in the United Kingdom with a
total of 11.3 million singles sold by Nov. 3, 2012. They are the
best-selling Swedish band of all time and one of the best-selling
bands originating in continental Europe.
ABBA’s great songs include Dancing Queen; The Winner
Takes It All; Take A Chance On Me; Lay All Your Love On Me;
Money, Money, Money; Knowing Me, Knowing You; Slipping
Through My Fingers; Mamma Mia!; S.O.S.1975; Waterloo;
Does Your Mother Know; I Have A Dream; Voulez-Vous; I Do,
I Do, I Do, I Do; Thank You for the Music; One of Us; Angel
Eyes; Honey, Honey; and more.
Hosted by Legends Radio and presented by Schumacher
Automotive Group, the Abacoa live concerts are free each month
and open to the public!

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