ABBA rejoice Fiftieth anniversary of Eurovision win with ‘Waterloo’

ABBA have marked the Fiftieth anniversary of their Eurovision win with ‘Waterloo’ in a brand new assertion right this moment (April 6).

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50 years in the past right this moment, the Swedish icons, made up of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad, gained Eurovision after performing within the closing of the competitors on the Brighton Dome. In 2005, the monitor was chosen as the most effective track in Eurovision’s historical past as a part of the Fiftieth anniversary celebration of the competition.

In a brand new assertion marking the historic event, the band mentioned: “It’s barely dizzying and deeply humbling to assume that tens of millions of you who noticed us for the primary time within the Eurovision closing 1974 have handed our music on not solely to 1 era, however to a number of.

“We see proof of that each time one among us visits ABBA Voyage in London and it’s due to this we are able to rejoice the Fiftieth Anniversary of that occasion within the information that our songs nonetheless resonate all over the world.”

To additional mark the event, Andersson has recorded a brief piano piece referred to as the ‘Piano Second’ that can be skilled as if he have been on the competitors and enjoying reside. In London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Stockholm, a number of totally different renditions of the piano piece can be linked collectively concurrently to play the piece each hour on the anniversary. In England, the piano can be positioned at Waterloo Station in London.

The band have additionally launched of a Fiftieth-anniversary reissue of their iconic album ‘Waterloo’ in celebration of the milestone.

At the moment is the day! Completely happy Fiftieth Anniversary to Waterloo 🎶 pic.twitter.com/BQAgjl7XDx

— ABBA Voyage (@ABBAVoyage) April 6, 2024

Following their win at Eurovision, the band went on to launched large hits like ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!’, and ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’.

In 1999, the group’s music was tailored into Mamma Mia!, a stage musical that toured worldwide and, as of April 2022, remains to be within the top-ten longest working productions on each Broadway (closed in 2015) and the West Finish (nonetheless working).

A movie of the identical title, launched in 2008, turned the highest-grossing movie in the UK that yr. A sequel, Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more, was launched in 2018.

In 2022, ABBA created ‘ABBA Voyage’, a digital manufacturing which sees a “digital” model of ABBA (or ‘ABBAtars’) performing alongside a 10-piece reside band (put along with the assistance of Klaxons’ James Righton).

In an interview with NME final yr to coincide with the present welcoming its millionth customer, Ulvaeus was requested about what the way forward for the present includes. “We hope to remain on this venue for so long as we are able to. We hope they’ll have us for a few years, and we’d construct different replicas of this somewhere else: Asia, Australia, North America. There are heaps and promoters and cities that we’re speaking to for the time being about that.”

The Swedish icons are additionally reportedly set to take their acclaimed ‘Voyage’ hologram present to Las Vegas to the tune of tens of millions of {dollars}.

In different information, earlier this week, The Hives paid tribute to the Fiftieth anniversary of ABBA successful Eurovision throughout their gig on the Brighton Dome.

On April 3, the Swedish Rock band took the stage on the Brighton Dome within the UK as a part of their ongoing ‘The Dying of Randy Fitzsimmons’ tour. Earlier than commencing the third monitor of the night time, frontman Pelle Almqvist took the time to clarify why it was an iconic night time.

“About 50 years and a day in the past, ABBA from Sweden gained the Eurovision Track Contest on this very room. It was the beginning of Sweden’s success as a musical export nation, and we’re the conclusion. So that is form of a full circle second. 50 years and a day in the past and now you’re right here to witness one other historic occasion of a Swedish man successful on the Brighton Dome,” Almqvist instructed the gang.

“How does it really feel to be right here on this event?” he requested earlier than replying with: “I guess it feels good proper?” The band then proceeded to leap into their monitor ‘Take Again The Toys’.