Happy New Year!

I wish a New Year full of love, peace, health, prosperity and happiness to my friends and all people that follow my blog, as well as to your loved ones!

Let's celebrate the coming of 2010 with the moving Happy New Year lyrics, one of the most deep and moving ABBA songs.

Happy 2010, everyone!

Happy New Year - ABBA

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine...

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Best wishes for 2010 to everybody!

ABBA and scrapbooking

My mom does scrapbooking and, sometimes, I try to do something too. Long time ago, I had the idea of creating a work devoted to my favorite music group and, then, I selected a very beautiful picture for it.

I hope you like it, even though I'm not very good with Arts...

In Holland in 1975

In June 1975, ABBA went to Holland to perform in Eddy go round program. The group made many photo sessions in this occasion, including one in the beautiful surroundings of the hotel where the band stayed. I confess it was one of the first ABBA sessions I found out entirely.

Picture probably taken from a magazine

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Merry Christmas

I wish all my friends and people that follow my blog a Merry Christmas, with lots of harmony and love!

In order to celebrate this so special holiday, I'm posting a picture of ABBA 1972 Christmas, a little modified by myself.

Merry Christmas with ABBA!

ABBA Rarities

There are lots - yeah, lots - of ABBA pictures and I'm always finding out some I have never seen before. The following ones are examples of it!

Well, this pic is not in a so good quality, but it's still nice

The group on a TV show in 1975

Funny image, in which Frida is enjoying Benny's ice cream!

This picture was taken in 1978, during an ABBA photo shoot 

But this is the only one of the whole session I've come across so far!

It's clearly a picture taken from a magazine

During a recording session in 1981

Fantastic children

I love pictures showing Frida with her children. Unfortunately, she didn't have any children with Benny, she had Hans and Lise-Lotte with her first husband, Ragnar Fredriksson, though. Frida's son was born in 1963, when Frida was only 17 years old, while her daughter was born four years later. Tragically, Lise-Lotte died in a car crash in January 1998, which was certainly one of her mother's biggest losses.

This post, devoted to her "fantastic children" - as Anni-Frid called them in an interview that she gave in 1984 -, was made mainly as a tribute to Lise-Lotte's memory.

A proud mother with her son...

... and with her daughter

Anni-Frid with her two little angels in 1967

The Fredriksson Family

Frida with a very cute Lise-Lotte

Playing with her daughter...

... and... what can I say about this picture?

Just Adorable!

A nice photo taken when Lise-Lotte was 11 years old

Frida walking with her daughter through Polar Studios in January 1979

Frida and Jonathan - Lise-Lotte's son

My (late) tribute to Benny

Benny's birthday was yesterday, December 16th. As I had some problems with my internet, only now I'm posting a tribute to this lovely man and eminent composer, who has just turned 63 years old.

Happy Birthday, Göran Brör Benny Andersson!

Benny with his father

Since he was baby, he's charming, isn't he?

At the time of his first band - known as the "Swedish Beatles" - The Hep Stars

At ABBA time, with Money, Money, Money costumes

Playing the piano in Super Trouper promo video

In the early 1980s

Although Benny is best-known for playing the piano, he also plays guitar, accordion - as we can see here -, among other musical instruments.

A true genius!

National Commercial

In 1976, ABBA made a commercial for the company National (present Panasonic), promoting its electronics products. Several videos were made for the National Commercial and some of their scenes were filmed in Frida and Benny's apartment, in Stockholm. With this advertisement, the group raised about a million dollars, which were fully invested in their Australian tour, in 1977.

These are some pictures of the commercial, showing nice and funny ABBA moments.

The National Commercial's poster with ABBA

    I wonder how Benny was able to see something in front of him... 

                                                                   

... no wonder Frida is looking a bit worried!

Another poster of the company

So happy together...

Singing an adaptation of Fernando for National Commercial

During the rehearsals

A typical poster found in magazines and newspapers

Another typical poster

Walking and singing

Having a picnic!

Filming at Benny and Frida's apartment

Smiles!

Frida and Agnetha rehearsing for the commercial

Love

Benny and Frida in their apartment

The couple during the making off of the commercial

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The five National's adverts: