BRAVO in Stockholm, April 3, 1978
(all photos by Wolfgang Heilemann)
Wolfgang "Bubi" Heilemann arrived in Stockholm for an extended photo session which lasted all day. ABBA posed in different outfits. The pictures taken that day would be distributed to the media all over the world and used on the record covers. The 1978 single "Summer Night City" was the first record with pictures from this session.
Arrival and preparations
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Polar Studios
Several pictures taken at the future Polar Music Studios.
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The animal outfits
The 1978 animal outfits were featured during the promotion of ABBA The Album at the beginning of 1978. ABBA performed Take A Chance On Me in February 78 on German TV in the "animal" outfits.
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The 1977 tour outfits
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The green session
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The gold coat session
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The Summer Night City session
Shots from this session were used on the cover of the single "Summer Night City" released in September 78.
Anni-Frid
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Benny
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Björn
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Agnetha
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ABBA
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Alternate session
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The Telefunken session
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The yellow session
The last sessions this day. You can see on Benny's watch that it was late afternoon 4.45 pm in one case and 4.55 pm in another case.
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with instruments
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