Everyone listens to the songs of today, any song on a movie or an album, do you know how many of those songs have been composed by remakes of foreign tunes. You will be surprised to know about one such foreign band Abba. On the basis of this band, Hindi cinema songs got their lives.
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How the name Abba - The band started in 1972 in Sweden's capital Stockholm. The band consisted of four people, named Agneita Feltskog, Beorn Ulvaeus, Benny Anderson and Annie Frid Lyngstad. The band was named after the four initials. From 1974 to 1982, the band rocked their best songs not only in Sweden but all over the world. The songs of this band have topped the worldwide music chart list. Aba also won the Eurovision Song Contest in England in 1974, the first historic win of the match for Sweden.
There were a total of two married couples in this band. The real Agneita Feltskog - Beorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson - was Annie Frid Lingstad's spouse. At the beginning of this band, everything was fine, but as the four started getting fame, the effect started to affect their personal lives. After which both the couples got divorced.
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Abba's songs were used in world tours and films as well - in 1999, Abba's music was used in the musical 'Mamma Mia' world tour. Subsequently, in 2008, a film called Mamma Mia was also released, in which Abba's songs were used. The film won the title of highest-grossing film in England in that year (2008). On 27 April 2018, it was announced that the band recorded two songs after 35 years, the names of these songs being 'I still have faith in you' and 'Don't shut me down'.