Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Wallace is sent by station 's boss to get in-depth interview with group, Fact2: group is to be aired on day, Fact3: fact that Wallace is unable to buy concert ticket does n't help matters, Fact4: Ashley Armed with is forced to follow group beginning in Sydney trusty reel-to-reel tape recorder, Fact5: travelling in order to Perth Adelaide and Melbourne 's protective bodyguard as well as increasingly exasperated boss
Output (English): The film has a very thin plot which is no more than a vehicle to link together the concert footage.citation needed It concerns the adventures of Ashley Wallace Robert Hughes, a naive DJ on Radio 2TW, who normally presents a throughthenight country and westernthemed show. In spite of this, he is sent by the stations boss Bruce Barry to get an indepth interview Not an interview, a dialogue, demands his boss with the group, which is to be aired on the day ABBA leave Australia. Needless to say, Ashley, who has never done an interview before, singularly fails, mainly because he has forgotten to pack his press card, although the fact that he is unable to buy a concert ticket doesnt help matters either. Armed with his trusty reeltoreel tape recorder, Ashley is forced to follow the group all over Australia, beginning in Sydney, and then travelling, in order, to Perth, Adelaide, and Melbourne, experiencing repeated runins with the groups very protective bodyguard Tom Oliver, as well as his increasingly exasperated boss. Throughout the movie, we see Ashley interviewing members of the public, asking them if and why they like ABBA. Almost all the comments are positive, but he interviews a man who is driven mad by his ABBAobsessed twelveyearold, and another girl who thinks ABBA are over the top. Eventually, Ashley has an unbelievably lucky chance encounter with Stig Anderson, the groups manager, in the foyer of ABBAs hotel, who agrees to arrange an interview, and gives him tickets to that evenings concert. But Ashley sleeps in and misses the appointed interview time. Just as Ashley has given up hope by this time, he doesnt even care that his press card—which has been constantly forwarded by Australia Post—has finally arrived, a miracle occurs: he steps into an elevator and finds himself facetoface with ABBA. They agree to give him an interview there and then, and he leaves Melbourne just in time to meet the deadline for the radio show to go out onair. He puts together the final edit in the back of a taxi on the way back from the airport, as ABBA depart Australia for Europe. With only minutes to go, Ashley makes it back to the radio station where, having set the tape up on the studios playback machine, he relaxes at his control desk to listen as the interview is broadcast.