Talk:ABBA/Archive 1

message: From the text: "The last scheduled ABBA concert on the US soil, in Washington, DC, was cancelled due to Agnetha's breakdown after the plane incident."
Can this be explained better? There is no previous or subsequent mention of this in the otherwise fine article, except a note near the end that Agnetha suffered from fear of air travel. Was this an incident that occurred aboard the aircraft or after? The sentence is too vague in its present form, and should either be taken out or explained in greater detail. I would prefer more explanation, especially since it indicates a reason why the band never toured again despite their global popularity over the next three years.
Reply:
According to Agnetha's own book and recollections of 1979 tour road manager, late Bosse Norling, quoted in Abba biography "Bright Lights Dark Shadows", Agnetha suffered extreme emotional distress during the flight from NY to Boston when the private plane she was on couldn't land because of the extremely bad weather (Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado)
and was subjected to violent turbulence and lack of fuel. Eventually, it did land and Agnetha went through the concert in Boston that was delayed for almost two hours. Next day she was forced to travel to Washington, DC, but having arrived there she locked herself in the hotel room and refused to talk to anyone, except the physician who issued the band a waiver allowing them to cancel the show in Washington, DC, without legal repercussions from the promoters.
Agnetha:"Everything was just black and the plane was shaking horribly. I prayed to God that I wouldn't die"
"Agnetha was hysterical, and I don't blame her. As if the terrible weather and the wobbling plane was not enough, it was pitch dark"
('Bright Lights Dark Shadows", page 415)
~~Scholar91
Taco 05:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agnetha's Breakdown? 

message: 370 million albums??? can anyone verify this?  i thought the beatles "only" sold about 80 million
you thought wrong. the beatles have sold 1.2 billion.
In 1999 with the opening of the musical Mamma Mia Abba received an award/certification for having sold
360 million albums.
So the estimate given in the article is correct and by now probably close to 400 million
There is not a chance on Earth that ABBA has sold that many albums. and The Beatles have sold nowhere NEAR 1.2billion.  y'all are completely insane if you believe that!  
:Beatles figure is correct. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/maney/2004-05-04-google_x.htm,  http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=50910 --Lukobe 04:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Record sales? 

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message: Problem sentence: "ABBA were renowned for their colorful costumes (the epitome of 1970s fashion), and also for the videos which accompanied some of their biggest hits—these being among the earliest examples of the genre."
Reason: There is no reference to what "the genre" is. It could be heavy rock for all the reader knows.
:It should read "...earliest examples of music videos" or somesuch. It's not really a genre it's talking about. Graham 22:47, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Should probably rather be "medium", but I don't know much about the history of it. I don't know of 60's examples of Beatles playing around and such counts, or if they were a part of something larger, rather than primarily a marketing tool, as most well-known examples today. I guess it is an impossible task to explicitly define "the first music video". 81.232.72.148 01:13, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem with sentence ("the genre") 

message: The following reference was added to the main entry, so I thought it best to move it here...
*About.com 80's Music Blog
CLW 09:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I have been bold and split the tribute artists and samples section out to a new page. I feel that this section was growing too big to be incuded here, bearing in mind that none of this is actually about ABBA themselves. Hopefully this won't be controversial - the standalone article will probably need tidying, since at the mo it's just a cut and paste. Please add any further info in that category to the new page. This doesn't mean Madonna ;-) Graham 03:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Split of tribute artists, etc

message: Substituted at 20:14, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment