English spells world success for ABBA
The Daily Telegraph 6 March 1976
ABBA always have someone in to
check their lyrics, a member of the group said yesterday.
But it has little to do with
suggestiveness…
In near-perfect English, keyboard player
Benny Andersson said: “It can often take a long time to get the songs just
right.
“English is the language of rock – not
Swedish,” he said.
The Swedish singers/musicians, just
arrived in
It pays off.
They are the first group since The
Beatles to have had three single records in the Sydney Top 10 simultaneously.
Mamma Mia
Their hits
I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do,
SOS, and
Mamma Mia, all reached number one.
They are here to make a one-hour
Bandstand TV special for screening on March 20.
The group couldn’t agree yesterday on
what had made them such international success.
The girls, Frida Lyngstad and Agnetha
Fältskog, said it was all due to the band’s original material.
“But I think the girls’ looks may have
had just a little to do with it,” guitarist and husband of Agnetha Fältskog –
Björn Ulvaeus said.
Agnetha recently was voted as having the
sexiest bottom in
Photo: Pop group ABBA in
