ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog on This Day in History

I still remember having this Agnetha Fältskog song on cassette back in the 80's.

This Day in History: ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog was born on this day in 1950. Abba sold over 380 million albums and singles worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists in history. Led Zeppelin recorded their last album "In Through the Out Door" at ABBA’s Polar Music Studios, in Stockholm (great album BTW). ABBA was quite popular in the Soviet Communist countries during the cold war, so to perform there they received royalty payments from the Soviet Union in oil commodities instead of Rubles due to the embargo. ABBA’s greatest hits album, Gold, is one of the best-selling records of all time. In the UK it outsold the Beatles’s "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band."  The band's first American television appearance came on The Mike Douglas Show. I completely forgot about the The Mike Douglas Show.

When a friend and I were unable to attend their concert, we went to the theater to see Abba: The Movie instead. The group has reportedly turned down $1 billion to reform and tour again. Other memorable Swedish groups are Ace of Base, Roxette, Europe, Ghost, Blue Swede, Neneh Cherry, The Cardigans and a lot of Heavy Metal.

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