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in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
https://youtu.be/4N-rDnoR3pw?si=ChSc1...
Vocals Isolated
https://youtu.be/gtkoCHetIFk?si=JR3OJ...
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Eurovision Song Contest 1974
Sweden v United Kingdom
Benny Andersson from ABBA representing Sweden meets Olivia Newton-John representing UK
Olivia sings one of Benny's favourites
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Olivia covers the Hollies
https://youtu.be/VLKJgu0jsuY?si=nn5VQ...
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Normal Audio here https://youtu.be/btht9tNwHQk?si=yXTeB...
https://youtu.be/o3BNnNeFBS4
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😍https://youtu.be/IjbZMIZP7aQ?si=Ys52b...
Taken from ABBA’s mini-musical The Girl With The Golden Hair.
Live Perth Australia march 10 1977
Audio Enhanced Vocal Prominent
(From abbasite.com)
Telling a story with the aid of music
The original cast album for Jesus Christ Superstar inspired Björn and Benny.A girl with a talent for singing, who leaves her home town, becomes a star and then finds herself trapped by fame – that was the simple plot that formed the basis for ABBA’s mini-musical The Girl With The Golden Hair. This creation marked the first few steps for ABBA’s song writing team of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus in realising a dream they had nursed since before the ABBA era. That dream was to write a full-scale musical. Ever ambitious and forward-looking, they felt even in those early days that at some point, this would be the logical next step in their development as composers. Telling a story with the aid of music and lyrics, and being able to expand beyond the restrictive format of the three-minute pop song, was a highly interesting challenge for them.
In December 1976, Benny and Björn treated Swedish TV viewers to a bit of Thank You For The Music.Neither Björn nor Benny had been great fans of musicals in their younger days. “But then I heard Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar”, recalls Benny in the book Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You? “Stig Anderson, who was managing us and who was one of the leading music publishers in Sweden, had been sent the record long before it actually came out. I got hold of a copy and thought it was astonishing.” First released as a so-called concept album in 1970, the musical was very different to most earlier musicals in that it married a serious, historical subject such as Jesus Christ to modern pop and rock music. Explains Björn: “[When] Benny and I were talking about how to stretch ourselves, the success of Jesus Christ Superstar was hovering in the background. We thought, ‘This is fascinating. Why don’t we try this, why don’t we dabble in this for a while?’”
A simple plot
British actor Francis Matthews was the Mephisto-like narrator in The Girl With The Golden Hair.When ABBA were planning their first major tour, scheduled to take place in Europe and Australia between January and March 1977, Björn and Benny were provided with the perfect opportunity to dip their toes in stage-musical waters. Since they wanted the tour to offer something more than just a string of hits, they got the idea to put together a mini-musical. The plan was to make it a 20–25-minute extravaganza that could end the main show in a spectacular way, before the encores. After finishing work on the Arrival album, which was released in October 1976, Björn and Benny began putting together what was to become The Girl With The Golden Hair. By necessity, the plot had to be simple, while still lending itself to dramatic story-telling. Quite possibly, there was also the thought of keeping it within the world of music, which the whole group could relate to. What they finally came up with was a storyline “about a girl wanting to get famous, becoming famous and then seeing the downside of it,” as Björn puts it.
By early December 1976 at least one of the songs for the mini-musicals had been completed. In a feature in the Swedish news show Rapport, filmed on December 6, Björn and Benny treated the viewers to a few instrumental bars of the chorus of ‘Thank You For The Music’. This was, in all likelihood, the first public glimpse of this famous song. Today, this performance can be viewed on the DVD included with the Deluxe Edition of the Arrival album. There was to be no dialogue in the musical, and yet the music and lyrics alone were not quite enough to carry the plot forward. The solution arrived in the shape of a narrator, presented like a heavily made-up Mephisto-like character, who would appear between the songs to explain the plot points. The part of the narrator went to 24-year-old British actor Francis Matthews of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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I let the music speak.....
Where beauty meets the darkness of the day
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