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1974, 1975, Abba, America, bachman turner overdrive, Barry White, David Bowie, David Essex, Division 4, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Fawlty Towers, Gloria Gaynor, Golden Earring, Janis Ian, music, Paul McCartney and Wings, queen, Rod Stewart, Roxy Music, Skyhooks, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Stevie Wright, The Eagles, The Steve Miller Band, The Sweet, youtube
Cast of Fawlty Towers
Playlist by Algernon
As with the others these featured as Top 100 songs somewhere. Division 4 was a police “drama” which finished production in 1975. Interestingly the final episode was shown in Sydney in September 1975 and in Melbourne where it was produced in February of 1976! As for Fawlty Towers I could have put any amount of clips here and I’d still be rolling around on the floor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In1VeSjsBT8
Evie (parts 1, 2 & 3) – Stevie Wright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswKeWhjaUc
The Ballroom Blitz – The Sweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdsedY0foGc
Sorrow –David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeRa3RtBiIU
Radar Love – Golden Earring
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgkBx8csEws
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK6jgzV32bg
Rock On – David Essex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgcwT9X2J8
I shot the sheriff – Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw
Can’t get enough of you Love baby – Barry White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOKJikcYMk
The Joker – The Steve Miller Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=besiULlSlFY
Jet – Paul McCartney and Wings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOAvY5Pct1Q
Once upon a time – Division 4 (1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khgpg-9TjVM
Talkative Moose – Fawlty Towers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wHvzKDugA
The Builders – Fawlty Towers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRJ1y6GBQqE
Basil the Rat – Fawlty Towers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7l8rlnMpCI
Horror Movie – Skyhooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ti2P_z5IPw
Killer Queen – Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmmWJBwxvz0
One of these nights – The Eagles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miRCLeFSJo
Ain’t seen nothing yet – Bachman Turner Overdrive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIycEe59Auc
Sister golden hair – America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bYOZdM2tpg
Golden Years – David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRRLTxIxNtM
Love is the drug – Roxy Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxoke4yuWlI
Come up and see me (Make me smile) – Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhFnOAwr96o
At 17 – Janis Ian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwMYBXbfCQ
Never could say goodbye – Gloria Gaynor
Keywords: Stevie Wright, The Sweet, David Bowie, Golden Earring, Elton John, David Essex, Eric Clapton, The Steve Miller Band, Division 4, Fawlty Towers, Skyhooks, Queen, The Eagles, Bachman Turner Overdrive, America, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Janis Ian, Gloria Gaynor, Barry White, Paul McCartney and Wings
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB4dbdNSXY&feature=related
John Lennon – Imagine
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Eric Clapton- Tears in heaven
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo&feature=related
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
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Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Sky is Crying
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Stevie Wonder – Superstitious (He is one on my favourites)
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Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR9d0p1Rk4I&feature=related
Yvonne Elliman – If I Can’t Have You
The ultimate in szchmulch
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When listening to the Gloria Gaynor tracks I found these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj53iyFok8g&feature=fvwrel
The Three Degrees – When Will I see you Again
George McCrae – Rock Me Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0&feature=related
Hues Corporation – Rock The Boat 1974
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Two of those I considered, the Three Degrees and Hues corporation.
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Keep going like this and maybe a ton beckons.
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A ton is coming bro, and well deserved
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Now talking about David Essex we see a classic case of pretty boy with half reasonable voice meets microphone. Luckily I am neither of these. However when playing the clip up came these,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCh2uPx5d8&feature=related
Def Leppard – Rock On
best Strip (Pole) Dance ever!!! Felix Cane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrId8xH2gh8&feature=related
Jethro Tull- Hymn 43
What an eclectic and interesting mix
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I bet Felix Cane can’t cook, oh well 🙂
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One more to the score….are you on holidays, I have seen you the Drum, and it’s Monday morning!
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I am Helvi, until the 6th of January. Got some of Mrs A’s family in town this week and today from WA so we’re off to town shortly. Yes I’m impressed with the tally, It was looking forelawn yesterday in single figures, the seemed to get a move on.
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A little more Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers – Don’t mentioned the war
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Algernon posts the half century with a four down to long on, all along the carpet
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Actually where’s Jules when you need him? He’s a music man
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Well I’m sure he knows most of them. A top score!
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Sorry, I have been out all day and had to drop a line to JG, on another matter. I’ll have a look in the morning.
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VL, a line! that was the longest line from you…it was good to read tho…
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Just one more for an equal top score.
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Algernon, your music lists get many more hits then comments
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Connie Booth, spunk of the century
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How do you mean Hung, you mean externally or from the piglets.
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Listening to the Steve Miller clip I came across this
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
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And then this one
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
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Barry White. Apparently a lot of children are conceived while listening to Barry White. Now I read that somewhere and didn’t make it up.
Recently Gerard suggested all the Piglets meet in Cooper Pedy as he felt meeting the Piglets was such a good thing. Now I can relate to that having meet Astyages and Emmjay and the wonderful first mate, also in my recent crisis I have had phone calls from Algernon and Big M who by the way wanted to know if I was okay and where they in the will. 🙂
My suggestion is that we all go to the Sea and Vines Festival in the McLaren Vale. A mini bus takes us from winery to winery for food, wine and music plus beautiful scenery. When Tutu and I went this was one of the songs a band did a great version of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_KX5GNa1Y&feature=related
Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
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Interesting Hung, the picture on this clip is Marvin Gaye.
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Thanks mate I didn’t know that. I was never a fan but seeing this live was great.
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Hot Chocolate appeared for me, in the club I had at The Manor House.I’ve ntioned it before. I think that we paid them 150 quid.
I had some great posters from that era, of the bands that played–including Supertramp. My two sons were playing at being rascals in the garage in tore them up…sigh. What I would give to have those mementos now.
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150 quid VL, that must have bben before they had any chart success I suspect.
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No, they had a few hits. Supertramp, were on a percentage of door takings–and only got 20 quid!!
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Really barely enough for Supertramp to drink then.
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Algernon, one of my favourite bands are The Eagles. I have never seen them but a good mate of mine saw them in Sydney and said he thought they were the best band he ever saw. Can I indulge myself here and play my favourite Eagles track, As young folk we drove over from the Gong to Adelaide and had his album on tape for the journey, reminds me of the trip ever time I hear it.
Cheers
Mark
The Eagles – I Can’t Tell You Why
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I haven’t stopped you today Hung.
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Algernon, When you were born the Lord smiled 🙂
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Sister Golden Hair is supposed to one for the blondes. Many people I have meet over the years are amazed that I didn’t marry a blonde given that I am extremely handsome. 🙂 Anyway I did date an extremely beautiful blonde as a young man only to find that she was an extremely beautiful blonde. Later I met and married Tutu. Many years later my family and friends said to Tutu, “Gee Tutu, you are an extremely beautiful woman” On the way home we talked about what was said. I said to Tutu that I had known she was extremely beautiful from the time I met her. True story.
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Gee you’re a sweet talker, Hung, no wonder Tutu fell for you with romantic talk like that.
I said something similar to Mrs A when we first started going out. This week the mid ’80s.
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I am sure Mrs A feels the same way about you, you lucky bastard 🙂
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You’ve got all the skills the Hung.
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Oh yes, I still love her and find her extremely beautiful, we get along so well it is fantastic
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Viv, I ‘loved’ doing housework to the sound of Abba and Rod Stewart , maybe not loving the mobbing or ironing, but at least Abba and Rod made it more palatable… 🙂
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Yes Helvi, I loved vomiting to Abba, Rod Stewart did sort of keep a state of emesis
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Skyhooks were a great commercial band, great vocals, a guitar and bass in tune and great drummers over the time. The only really good rock song they produced was this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8sov4ujTMQ
Skyhooks -Million Dollar Riff
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Made a few bob though, Hung. Released the same album in the 80’s and just changed the decade.
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Living in the 70’s was a favourite album among me an my mates
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The first tune ever played on 2JJ.
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I counter with
Sykhooks – I’m Living in the Seventies
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I’ll raise you Hung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hezmw2AE5Kk
Skyhooks – Whatever happened to the revolution
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I see your revolution and I raise you with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UduuxKdPt9Q
Skyhooks – Ego is Not a Dirty Word
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Well hung I raise you again
Skyhooks – Balwyn calling
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I see you, and raise you Horror Movie
Skyhooks – Horror Movie
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But I posted Horror Movie on the original list.
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David Bowie – I have this love hate relationship with Bowie, I either love it or hate it. In fact there are very few artists for me that fit in that category, the only other one I can think of at the moment is The Rolling Stones.
My favourite Bowie is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8IXx4tsus
David Bowie – China Girl
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He owned a place in Sydney for many years and I think he shot the clip for this one here.
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Algy, did you like him or just selected tracks?
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More the selected tracks Hung. More an Elton John fan in the first half of the ’70. Seemed to lose it a bit after the drugs took over. Some great tracks early on. There’s a live album he did in 1970 17-11-70 that you wouldn’t pick as being Elton John, almost trash music at the end.
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Bachmann Turner Overdrive (BTO) – These guys were both typical yet unusual. If you listen to the chord progressions of the guitar they are the same as Steve Miller, Bad Company and Free. What set them apart was the drumming. When I was 9 I started learning the drums up until I was 20. The basics of drumming is to keep time. In music terms for every beat in the bar one of the cymbals is played. The cymbals in a basic drum kit consists of the Hi-hat, ride and crash. The Hi-hat is two cymbals on a stand controlled by a foot pedal that opens and shuts. You use your foot to open and shut the Hi-hat to create different sounds. The BTO drummer virtually ignored this rule leaving the Hi-hat open most of the time. Very few if any bands have ever done this.
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Radar Love was one of the best rock songs out of Europe. Here’s the American rock glam version. Note the Marshall stacks for the lead player and Astyages will be pleased that he is using a Gibson guitar. Gibson’s are renown for there ability to increase the amount of sustain and have a nice action however us blues players will always go Fender( bit like Ford versus Holden). Notable exceptions to this rule are Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana and Gary Moore who are all Gibson players whereas Hendrix, Kenny Wayne Sheppard and Roy Buchanan just to name a few are Fender players. I’m a Fender man. I bet the bass player isn’t using a Marshall amp and if he is wise he would use Mesa Boogie or Gallien -Kruger.
White Lion – Radar Love
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That looked more like heavy metal than Galm to me, yet its a tune that lends itself very well to the genre. Very good though, did you notes the zooming in on the Doner Kabab stand at about the 1 minute 30 mark. Golden earing were another band that came from now where and went back there. Their legacy though was that great tune.
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I remember getting into Janis Ian as a young guy, sort of sad, depressed but real stuff, reminds me of Phoebe Snow and Minnie Ripperton, oh and I mean that in a good way, not every song needs a great solo or crunching chorus
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These years were a little like the end of a period in popular music I suppose. The change came with Punk and New Wave from about 1976 on and that gave rise to other musical styles. However thats another episode of the show coming up, 1976 on I mean not the Punk etc.
I liked singers like Roberta Flack and the like from this period, haunting voices. I agree with your thoughts though there Hung.
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Roberta Flack was brilliant Algy and I guess we add her white equivalent in Carole King, some good stuff there.
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Indeed Hung, indeed.
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Evie was one of the greatest signature rock tunes of the 70’s for Aussie music
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Part one was the only one played on commercial radio. It took stations like 2JJ to play the whole lot. Saw Stevie Wright on a program recently, life has treated him rough, he still has a fan base though.
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He is connected to ACDC somehow isn’t he?
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More the Easybeats and Vanda and Young I thought. I don’t think he has a connection with AC/DC but I could be wrong.
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Just looked up Wiki, Vanda and Young were the songwriters in The Easybeats that had the little brothers in ACDC, Wright was the Easybeats singer.
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So thats thats the 6 degrees of separation,well more like two or three.
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As promised vivienne, I’ve included some ABBA froom 1974 and 1975 as well as Rod Stewart from 1975.
Waterloo – ABBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Aft6OTrOU
Mamma Mia – ABBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2-_01i48w
Sailing – Rod Stewart
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Thanks Algy but we could have used our vivid imagination to remember what they sounded like 🙂
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Steve Harley has a very Kinks sort of sound
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Hung, vivienne asked and I provided. As for Steve Harley one of these who came from no where and went back.
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Ta very much for that. Sailing is about the only Rod Stewart song I don’t like. Maggie May, Tonights the Night are more like it.
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But Sailing fits in with the period and I agree its not one I like. Maggie May my favourite but from around 1971 and had been included recently on one of Waz’s lists so I didn’t include at that time. The other might be on the next episode.
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Yes Vive, no one here thought you were into emesis
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Many a good song there, Alge, will listen to my favourites later…first some shopping for the neighbours’ Christmas get-together (our second here)…
We lived for the Fawlty Towers, and remembered every line, one of our kids could not watch it…it was too much like home…her cousin couldn’t either. Says a lot about Oostie families…
They all look so ‘young’ there.
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John Cleese would have been 35 or 36, his birthday is the same as mine 27 October. He’s 72 now. Fawlty Towers like Monty Python has a timelessness about it. My kids love it as do all the Algernons.
I’m finiding it interesting as I research this period for this series as to what was watched and listened to. The music is just a cross section not always necessarlily what I may have listened to or even liked. However I do draw the line at posting any ABBA. The music style did change from one end of the decade to the other. TV moved on though , heowever in Australian the moves weren’t that quick.
Shopping at our local this morning was a s*#t fight. Difficult to park. My friend the butcher told of gridlock on the roundabout which shes never seen in all the time shes been there.
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Agree about ABBA. Good songlist brother.
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Well I like ABBA – it was mostly happy and the tunes were clever and in their early days they were delightfully grungy and a bit naughty. I thoroughly enjoyed MamaMia the musical – the live one. I have a few of those albums (Gloria Gaynor, Elton John, Wings etc.and a fair whack of Rod Stewart who is not in this list but probably should be).
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ABBA was from1976 on so I’ll inclued one for you on the next list in the series vivienne. I’ve included An Elton John (whom I saw 4 times at the Hordern in the ’70) and have on each of the previous lists. Gloria Gaynor and Wings are also included here. You’ve got me on Rod Stewart though, I’ll add one for you later tonight.
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Algy – I remember ABBA from the beginning. I saw some of their early stuff on UK tv and Waterloo was their entry for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. From then on they became more famous and Australia was their biggest fan club.
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On looking a little deeper I’ve probably erred and they date a little earlier than I first thought and I should have realised that Waterloo was from the Eurovision song contest of 1974, the one tune of theirs I didn’t mind.I’ve included an ABBA on the next list and the one after. 1976 was their big year especially here were they hogged the Number 1 spot for most of that year, 30 of the 52 weeks in fact. And on top of that they were there for the last 12 weeks of 1975.
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Sorry Viv but Abba really flunked after Waterloo, They went commercial extreme however they appealed to a very wide audience which made them very popular and very rich. Today they would fail due to multi-media, All my mates would say “I want the blonde one” or “I want the dark haired one” whereas I would say “I want there money”
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