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Drottningholm - photo sessions & more
The Old Town in Stockholm - photo sessions
Riddarholmen island in Stockholm - photo sessions
Skeppsbron Stockholm - photo sessions 1977
The photo sessions 1975 (Golden Double Album)
The "Greatest Hits" photo sessions 1975
The "Greatest Hits" photo sessions - the canon
The "Greatest Hits" photo sessions - the door
Early photo session in Stockholm
The 1974 BRAVO session - Stockholm Järntorget
The 1974 BRAVO session - Skeppsholmen, Paradiset
The Pildamms Theatre at the Pildammsparken Malmö Björn 1968/ABBA 1973
The Drottningholm palace and the park. ABBA made several photo sessions in the park and even filmed some episodes for "ABBA The Movie" and the "National" commercial. Agnetha was filmed in the park in 1999 for the ABBA documentary.
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The Old Town in Stockholm is well known because of many ABBA photo sessions. Here is the most famous of them all, on the Old Town Market.
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The session below was taken on the island Riddarholmen in the middle of Stockholm. You can see the City Hall behind ABBA.
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This photo session was taken in the middle of Stockholm in 1977. The place is called Skeppsbron and it is situated in the eastern part of the Old Town.
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The area Ladugårdsgärdet between the Swedish TV Center and the TV tower - Kaknästornet was chosen for one of the first ABBA photo sessions back in 1972.
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The photo sessions - late summer of 1975
These well known photo-sessions were taken in the part of Stockholm called Djurgården in the late summer of 1975. The place is the restaurant "Ulla Winblad". Agnetha & Frida were posing outside the restaurant. Benny & Björn can be seen sitting at one of the tables. Pictures from this session were used on the French compilation LP "Golden Double Album".
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The "Greatest Hits" photo sessions
These well-known shots were taken outside the restaurant "Ulla Winblad" on Djurgården in Stockholm. The restaurant area has been changed during the years but the building is still the same.
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The "Greatest Hits" photo sessions - the canon
These photo sessions were taken outside "Sjöhistoriska Museet" (The National Maritime Museum) situated not far away from Kaknästornet.
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The "Greatest Hits" photo sessions - the door
We found the door. Mission impossible!... almost. The door is the main entrance to "Sjöhistoriska Museet" (The National Maritime Museum) in Stockholm (see the map above).
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The Bravo photo sessions in Vallentuna
The Bravo photographer Wolfgang Heilemann took an extensive photo sessions with ABBA in Vallentuna outside Stockholm where the four group members lived by that time (until 1975). The photos were taken behind Agnetha's and Björn's house.
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The early ABBA photo session, Lilla Essingen island in Stockholm
At the beginning of 1970s Agnetha and Björn had a flat on the island Lilla Essingen in Stockholm. Björn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida posed for a photo session some day in 1970. In the background can be seen Västerbron (West Bridge) and the church of Högalid (with two towers).
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Exactly the same position as Björn. |
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The BRAVO session - Gamla stan
In the summer 1974 German pop photographer Wolfgang Heilemann took several photo sessions with ABBA in Stockholm. One of them was taken on Järntorget in the Old Town.
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The BRAVO session - Skeppsholmen
Sexton huge sculptures on the island Skeppsholmen were background for one of the BRAVO photo sessions lead by German photographer Wolfgang Heileman in the summer 1974 in Stockholm. The sculptures are still there only 50 meters from Benny's Mono Music office.
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The Pildamms Theatre at Pildammsparken - Malmö
The open air theatre at the Pildammsparken in Malmö was particularly popular place for ABBA members at the beginning of their career. Björn Ulvaeus filmed video for the song "Tangokavaljer" there in 1968 and ABBA took one of their very first extended photo sessions as a group in 1973. The theatre is still existing after more than 40 years and remaining in the same shape as in 1973.
The ABBA session 1973
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Björn - video "Tangokavaljer" 1968
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Pildammsteater - where in Malmö?
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