24.07.2008
It happens now... new single... new video
Svenska Dagbladet reports...
According to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet "ABBA dominates the UK chart lists" (even if the group does not exists since 1982 - but of course it sounds lovely in 2008). Anyway the soundtrack to Mamma Mia The Movie entered the British compilation albums chart directly at #1. It is for the first time since 2001 that a compilation album tops the chart already the first week. In 2001 it was the soundtrack album to the movie success "Bridget Jones Diary" that entered the chart at #1.
The Mamma Mia The Movie soundtrack was even the best selling album in Great Britain last week.
Mamma Mia The Movie is very successful in USA where it has its strongest opening weekend for a musical film ever with income of 27,6 million dollar. MM The Movie is #2 on the film chart after the new Batman film "The Dark Knight".
We say only: oh mamma mia...
As usual Svenska Dagbladet illustrates the chart reporting with an old ABBA picture taken in October 1976 in Warsaw - Poland during the promotion of the new album "Arrival".
Updates in the ABBA 1979 section.
Lots of new pictures of Agnetha, Frida, Benny and Björn on the Mamma Mia The Movie premieres in London & Stockholm - red carpet, blue carpet, balcony, dancing queens... - you name it...
Helena promoting Frida? Why not? See absolutely stunning new Helena 1996 photos.
Updates in Frida sections. New ABBA 75 pictures.
New Marta 1968 pictures added.
Mamma Mia The Movie premiere in NYC
Mamma Mia The Movie had its US premiere in New York on July 16th. Björn and Benny were there.
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New Frida pictures 2000 - 2002.
Gossip from the latest "Se och hör"
Swedish gossip weekly "Se och hör" (issue July 16th, 2008) reports that Agnetha and Bertil Nordström are still together...
Lots of Agnetha pictures from the period 2004-2008 added.
Lots of new rare Agnetha pictures from 1970 and ABBA 1978 added.
Raffem gives 5 "R" out of 5
Both Björn and Benny are there
The musical is fabulous and the film as well. Nothing more to say. We enjoyed every second of Mamma Mia The Movie an lazy Sunday afternoon in summer Stockholm. For an old ABBA fan since 1974 this film is something very special as well as the stage version of Mamma Mia. Some strong moments with strong music make you almost cry. One of the absolute most stunning scenes are all women running and singing "Dancing Queen" - here we can even see Benny Andersson playing piano on the boat. Björn appears shortly as a weather God at the end of the film. This is the same story but it is quite different to the stage performance and even this version is really great. We give five "R" out of five to "Mamma Mia The Movie".
go.to/Mamma Mia The Movie Gallery
4 points out of 5 in Sweden
Swedish press and mass media have reviewed "Mamma Mia The Movie" and given their marks. Most of them gave the film 4 points out of 5. "Expressen": "Meryl Streep is briliant"; "Aftonbladet": "The biggest smile of this summer"; "Amelia" (which gives 5 points out of 5): "One of the film highlights of the decade"; TV4: "A happy pill"; "Göteborgs Posten": "A film that makes you happy". So one more success for Björn, Benny and the others involved in the project. "Mamma Mia" the musical is going to South America and China and after it the Mamma Mia era is definitely over according to Björn and Benny who say that it has to be like it was with ABBA - stop when everything is on the top...
New ABBA 75 and Mamma Mia The movie related pictures added. Latest Helena photo sessions added in Helena 2008. Even new shots from the "Zastav se"- session from 2006. Marta and Helena on Midem in Cannes in 1968 - new photos.
More pictures from the Mamma Mia The Movie premiere in Stockholm added. Helena news updated.
Click on Agnetha to go to the Gallery
Marta in ABBA's studio in Stockholm
A very special new album was mixed in the summer 1978 in the Metronome Studio in Stockholm. It had been recorded in May 1978 in... a small kitchen in Prague for release in Sweden. It contained 6 songs performed by Marta Kubisova who by that time was forbidden as singer by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
Read about this odd project in the Marta 1978 section.
The Princess in love?
Frida and Henry in Stockholm
Swedish weekly "Svensk Damtidning" publishes on of the latest photos of Frida and her new boyfriend on the high-society party in Stockholm a couple of weeks ago. It was the first public society appearance of Frida and Henry Guard in Stockholm.
Updates in the Mamma Mia Section. More ABBA pictures from the Mamma Mia The Movie premiere in Stockholm on July 4th. The title of the new Rosenstolz album revealed... - go.to/Rosenstolz News
ABBA on the premiere of Mamma Mia The Movie in Stockholm
July 4, 2008
Mamma Mia - The Movie - the world premiere in London
Rosenstolz on Pride in Berlin
Rosenstolz promoted their forthcoming single "Gib mir Sonne" on the Pride Parade in Berlin.
On July 6th, 1971 Björn Ulvaeus married Agnetha Fältskog in the Verum church in southern Sweden. See beautiful new pictures of the church taken a couple of days ago.
New photos and updates:
Writing on the wall... - Marta in Berlin in May, Björn & Benny mixing Chess 1984
New Bucks Fizz CD out
The new double CD containing previously unreleased songs, mixes, demos and many other surprises was released in the UK on May 19th. Read the first impressions.
New ABBA books
The Story of ABBA by Carl Magnus Palm (in Swedish) will be issued in September in Scandinavia. Jean-Marie Potiez' new book is entitled "ABBA Scrapbook" and it for sure contains lots of rare pictures. The release date is unknown.
