What do you think the future's going to be like?
To be honest, I'm...
Sometimes I'm a bit scared.
Because
There's so much things, happening
All around the word (world?)
The thought of what will come,
Of this word (world?)
In the future
We don't know, none of us
What will come; for example, 1989.
(My Love, My Life by ABBA)
Frida: Choose me!
The dream was to become this singer I wanted to become and I had idols back then.
Agnetha: Connie Francis...
Petula Clark...
...Sandie Shaw
Sylvie Vartan
Rita Pavone...
I could go on and on!
(Who's Sorry Now by Connie Francis)
(Downtown by Petula Clark)
(Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw)
(La Locomotion by Sylvie Vartan)
(Datemi un martello by Rita Pavone)
That was almost about the only thing I did - to play the gramophone and sit and mime to these songs.
She dreamt of fascinating people on a national level
So, she sent a sample of her singing...
...to a record producer Little Gerhard (Karl-Gerhard Lundkvist)
Skavlan: Most people know you as a vocalist.
But you are a very good and respected songwriter.
You were a songwriter with your own career before ABBA.
Yes. I used to be more productive back then.
(LB stands for Lasse Bengtsson)
Well I don't know!
(Mein Schönster Tag by Agnetha Fältskog)
(Autobus by Agnetha Fältskog)
Agnetha Fältskog had a partner named Dieter Zimmerman, who wanted to make her a big schlager star, but they broke up in coincidence to her first proper encounter with Björn Ulvaeus.
Björn Ulvaeus: The guys in the band (The Hootenanny Singers) swear that I fell in love, but
Just by hearing her voice.
Interviewer: Is that true?
Björn Ulvaeus: Yes, I think so!
There was something, you know, so incredibly attractive.
MA, MA, MA, MA MA MA MA!
(Om tårar vore guld by Agnetha Fältskog)
(Mitt sommarland by Agnetha Fältskog)
Note: Björn Ulvaeus wrote the text to this song. Agnetha wrote the music.
(Swedish interpretation of I Don't Know How To Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar)
Ulvaeus persuaded Fältskog to audition as Maria Magdalena... and so, she got the part. Titti Sjöblom would soon replace her, as the ABBA connection was beginning to form on Fältskog's song "Dröm är dröm, och saga saga"
(Dröm är dröm, och saga saga by Agnetha Fältskog)
Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson joined in at the studio and then the same was done for Frida with "Min egen stad".
(Min egen stad by Anni-Frid Lyngstad) Note: Agnetha's backing vocals are prominent in the selected clip of the song.
(People Need Love by ABBA) Note: The official birth of the legendary Swedish group. It was a minor hit in the USA, but was a big hit in their home country.
(Waterloo by ABBA) Note: The actual song that jumpstarted their international career!
As Sweden was first place in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, it took them a while to achieve international fame.
The Eurovision victory would soon make a future path for ABBA where screaming fans are a norm for the band, years later. As Agnetha was already a mother, she fears and questions her decision to become a full-time parent or keep on singing.
Trivia: Olivia Newton-John was part of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and lost to ABBA. That didn't stop her from being famous.
Agnetha Fältskog: It was very very scary!
I didn't expect us to win.
(SOS by ABBA, actual live recording in Eskilstuna in 1975)
Because ABBA's music was topping the charts elsewhere in Europe and Oceania (aka MUSICAL PROFIT), they made a nationwide tour within the Scandinavian region and Western Europe region back in 1975...
(Rock 'N' Roll Band by ABBA)
(SOS, Swedish version)
It's not easy to stand on the stage.
Outside with so many people
And just say
WE CAN DO IT
(Dom här glomt by Agnetha Fältskog)
To be really good, to come up with something original
....is very hard work
And requires a lot of discipline, at least in my case.
(I'm Still Alive by Agnetha Fältskog)
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