40 years ago ..... ABBA's 1979 concert tour

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by GoodKitty, Sep 11, 2019.

  1. ABBAFANUSA

    ABBAFANUSA Forum Resident

    And just for fun, the love is real..lol
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  2. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    Incredible opportunity and memory for a kid fer sure .....!

    Damn, so sad there aren't more recordings .....
     
  3. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    No doubt about it !! :laugh: :agree:
     
  4. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    about that fellow-Swede Britt Ekland .....

    here's one of her greatest hits, from the James Bond film in 1974.
    (though the scene is equally about other fellow-Swede Maud Adams)


    Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond 1974) Britt Ekland in bikini plus plane flight music

    She was (is) about 3 years older than Frida and Björn ..... I wonder what she thought of ABBA ... she'd already been in America for quite a while .



    there was that time when she was Rod Stewart's girlfriend .....
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    don't forget marrying Peter Sellers..... 1964
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    and much later .... the drummer from The Stray Cats ! Slim Jim Phantom 1983
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    Britt Ekland - Wikipedia
     
  5. anduandi

    anduandi Senior Member

  6. xilef regnu

    xilef regnu Senior Member

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    I just wanted to say that those are my hands there...particularly the one on the left.

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  7. TonyCzar

    TonyCzar Forum Resident

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    This thread is converting me to Team Frida! She looks like a lot of fun.
     
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  8. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

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  9. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    Yeah ..... that's pretty sad and awful . :shake:

    he was there early on, drummed on "People Need Love" ..... "Waterloo" .... so much more ..... was on all eight albums.
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  10. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    well that's a fine thing to say .... ! :laugh:
    and where was that ?
     
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  11. namretsam

    namretsam Senior Member

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    GREAT remembrance. Getting to the show from LA was a massive cluster ... Friday night getaway traffic, accidents and other competing events in Anaheim. We missed the first song and a half.
     
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  12. kollektionist

    kollektionist Forum Resident

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    Ticket for the show in Brussels...
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  13. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    She's had an amazing life !
    She came from hardscrabble post-war poverty and struggle .... and the stigma of her being fathered by a German soldier .....
    Now she's got an actual title, Princess Anni-Frid Synni of Reuss, Countess of Plauen.
     
  14. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    Nice !
    There is a recording that purports to be that show. no ?
     
  15. kollektionist

    kollektionist Forum Resident

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    Sorry, no idea.
     
  16. ABBAFANUSA

    ABBAFANUSA Forum Resident

    I remember the show started a little late. There was an announcement about the traffic from an Angels game which just let out.
     
  17. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    Here you go. Ain’t it pretty? -

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  18. B. Bu Po

    B. Bu Po Senior Member

    ABBAFANUSA, do you remember them doing "Thank You For The Music"?
     
  19. aarsonbet

    aarsonbet Forum Resident

    For those who were at the concert, would you be able to answer a question I’ve had for YEARS regarding their stage costumes?

    All of the official photographs that I’ve seen show both the “white” version of the stage costumes, and the “dark blue” version of the costumes. Were these variants both worn during the same show, or was it a case of one colour one night, and another colour the next night?
     
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  20. B. Bu Po

    B. Bu Po Senior Member

    Mine was like the top one, but I don't remember the large ABBA above them. Could there have been another?
     
  21. B. Bu Po

    B. Bu Po Senior Member

    I'll leave this to ABBAFANUSA since he clearly didn't smoke pot at the show he saw, but I think I remember blue, and maybe both. I think it was both.
     
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  22. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty FloydM Thread Starter

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    San Diego Sports Arena 9-22-79

    this show was reportedly not sold out .... around 3,ooo attendees?
    afterwards they returned to their hotel in L.A.......
    I guess Agnetha flew with them .

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  23. granola

    granola Forum Resident

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    Congratulations to the folks who saw ABBA on their only North American tour in 1979, and are here to speak to their experience.

    Forty years is a long time.

    I attended ABBA's Concord show -- thank you for the thread, FloydMaui.
     
  24. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    San Diego is less than a couple hours drive from LA
     
  25. ABBAFANUSA

    ABBAFANUSA Forum Resident

    BTW..this poster is FAKE. It's homemade by a guy in Italy who originally sold them on Etsy. He's made quite a few concert prints over the years.
     
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