Pingu
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Evening all.
It's a HUGE day for ABBA today (well, for ABBA fans anyway... I'd imagine Frida is just tending to the hyacinths while her bloody Englishman sorts the wine cellar), as the group is 50 years old!
After almost decade in the business individually, years of friendships, relationships and marriages blossoming, and various attempts to work together in various combinations, 50 years ago today, Benny, Bjorn, Agnetha and Frida went into the studio with the specific aim of recording a song together as a four-piece for the first time; a pop song, in English.
At the end of the day, what would become ABBA's very first song (and Moopy's 84th favourite), People Need Love had been born.
Now, 50 years later, after amassing millions of fans, 22 of them (well 20 and another couple who clearly aren't fussed) have decided once and for all upon the greatest songs of ABBA's immense back catalogue.
Starting tomorrow evening, I'll be counting down the 50 ABBA songs that Moopy has declared to be the best of all time, and eventually revealing the song that will forever be known as ABBA's greatest in history, or at least in internet gay folklore.
Hope you'll join me!
It's a HUGE day for ABBA today (well, for ABBA fans anyway... I'd imagine Frida is just tending to the hyacinths while her bloody Englishman sorts the wine cellar), as the group is 50 years old!
After almost decade in the business individually, years of friendships, relationships and marriages blossoming, and various attempts to work together in various combinations, 50 years ago today, Benny, Bjorn, Agnetha and Frida went into the studio with the specific aim of recording a song together as a four-piece for the first time; a pop song, in English.
At the end of the day, what would become ABBA's very first song (and Moopy's 84th favourite), People Need Love had been born.
Now, 50 years later, after amassing millions of fans, 22 of them (well 20 and another couple who clearly aren't fussed) have decided once and for all upon the greatest songs of ABBA's immense back catalogue.
Starting tomorrow evening, I'll be counting down the 50 ABBA songs that Moopy has declared to be the best of all time, and eventually revealing the song that will forever be known as ABBA's greatest in history, or at least in internet gay folklore.
Hope you'll join me!
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