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Post by meandi on Jan 26, 2015 14:46:09 GMT
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Post by shoshin on Mar 15, 2015 0:22:36 GMT
Frida recording 'You Know What I Mean' in 1982. It's all worth watching, but here are the moments I found most interesting. First, Phil Collins seemed oddly surprised that he was producing someone who on the first day in the studio 'opened her mouth and was perfectly in tune...we looked at each other and said Christ this is going to be easy': Also, the recording of the song is filmed both outside and inside the booth, showing off Frida's vocals both with and without studio reverb: Finally, a break for lunch with a former member of the world's most famous band of all time. And here she is, chatting to that guy out of the Beatles  |
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Post by chelseacharger on Mar 31, 2015 12:20:36 GMT
Was trying for ages to find the last part of these 'funnies'. "I'm Bjorn" followed by that cackling laugh she has when she's really lost it.
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Post by mwilson on Mar 31, 2015 13:18:18 GMT
Was trying for ages to find the last part of these 'funnies'. "I'm Bjorn" followed by that cackling laugh she has when she's really lost it.
My favorite: Interviewer: "Are you ever going to get married?" Frida: "Oh, no." |
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Post by meandi on Apr 15, 2015 13:00:19 GMT
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Post by shoshin on May 17, 2015 22:27:47 GMT
Post-Eurovision interview with Frida, uploaded to Youtube years ago yet new to me and with surprisingly few views and comments. This was the interview in which Stig was upset by the question about Waterloo as an inappropriate theme for a song.
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Post by chelseacharger on May 18, 2015 9:52:24 GMT
Thanks shoshin. There is another similar video on Youtube and here's a translation of the interview.
Interviewer : "Anni-Frid Lyngstad.... Was this unexpected?"
Frida : "I would have to say yes. I hardly dared to hope for it".
Interviewer : "But did you feel that this song would hit home with the European audience?"
Frida : "Yes. I felt that we stood a fair chance. But I never thought we would win".
Interviewer : "What was it about this song that you thought would appeal to people?".
Frida : "I think the title, to a great extent,...Waterloo."
Interviewer : "Stikkan Anderson...You wrote this song. Why does one write a schlager about Waterloo?".
Stig : "When you write a Eurovision schlager, you don't write a schlager for Sweden but for Europe and
the rest of the world. The first thing you do is to take a title that you think will be understood by everybody. Last year's song was similar. It was called 'Ring, Ring'. That title was the same in all other languages.
Interviewer : " Last year you did a schlager about telephoning each other. This year you did a schlager
about how 40,000 people died. Cynically put...."
Stig : "Yes, that was very cynically put. That was not our intention. 'Waterloo' is a famous concept all over
the world. It represents something that has happened in history. It doesn't have anything to do with people dying....Nice angle, I must say."
Interviewer : "What does it mean for Sweden and Swedish schlager production to win this event?"
Stig : "To start with, I think it means a lot to Sweden as a tourist country. Sweden has been doing this for
19 years and entered the Eurovision, and now we finally won it. So next year, journalists from all over the world will come to Stockholm."
It does sort of sum up the hard time the band were getting from the media at home even from an early age.
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Post by chelseacharger on Jun 2, 2015 19:46:22 GMT
An 'OMG' moment for Frida. Japan 1978.
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Post by mwilson on Jun 3, 2015 13:19:02 GMT
An 'OMG' moment for Frida. Japan 1978.
So cute |
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Post by chelseacharger on Jun 11, 2015 20:15:03 GMT
'Like Old Friends Do' then Whack. Poor Bjorn.  |
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Post by mwilson on Jun 11, 2015 21:17:05 GMT
'Like Old Friends Do' then Whack. Poor Bjorn.
Not very friendly. Lol. Bjorn took the punch pretty well, though. |
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Post by shoshin on Jun 13, 2015 22:53:56 GMT
Frida reprising Fernando live.. in 2015 |
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Post by chelseacharger on Jun 16, 2015 23:30:40 GMT
Interesting / Useless (delete as necessary) bit of trivia is that the host for that QX gala, Sissela Kyle, is a comedy actress who also appeared as the receptionist in 'The Last Video' in 2004. Like how the Frida puppet hits the deck whilst performing too.
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Post by malin on Jun 18, 2015 13:09:46 GMT
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Post by mwilson on Jun 18, 2015 13:27:37 GMT
Interesting / Useless (delete as necessary) bit of trivia is that the host for that QX gala, Sissela Kyle, is a comedy actress who also appeared as the receptionist in 'The Last Video' in 2004. Like how the Frida puppet hits the deck whilst performing too.
If only she'd taken her tumble while singing Waterloo and they'd effected raindrops. This is a great find. Abba videos in general are cool in this forum too, I would say. Whatever keeps us talking. |
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Post by mwilson on Jun 18, 2015 13:28:26 GMT
Thank you for this. I hope so too as I'd love to see it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2015 4:51:26 GMT
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Post by chelseacharger on Jun 19, 2015 9:52:08 GMT
That was quick. Thanks for that. Have seen a few clips but never the whole programme before. Frida looks good in her 'Jane' outfit. Does Midsummer make the swedes act funny?
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Post by mwilson on Jun 19, 2015 12:57:33 GMT
That's terrific, Contro. Really good quality too...
...and welcome to the forum!
Say, this was posted to YouTube yesterday. Did you post it?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2015 13:41:37 GMT
That's terrific, Contro. Really good quality too... ...and welcome to the forum! Say, this was posted to YouTube yesterday. Did you post it? Thank you, yes I posted it. |
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Post by mwilson on Jun 19, 2015 14:13:03 GMT
That's terrific, Contro. Really good quality too... ...and welcome to the forum! Say, this was posted to YouTube yesterday. Did you post it? Thank you, yes I posted it. Awesome. I'm subscribing to you there! |
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Post by chelseacharger on Aug 1, 2015 11:58:16 GMT
A short but cute little song from the 1970 Nar Stenkakan Slog series.
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Post by tagaytay on Aug 1, 2015 21:07:17 GMT
what was frida singing about contro? why does she keep doing the middle finger throughout that first song?
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Post by chelseacharger on Aug 15, 2015 19:50:03 GMT
^^^^^ Can't understand Swedish but I think the song was about what the best or most useful part of the body is. Frida says 'the finger'. Svenne Hedlund says 'the nose' and Danish comedian Finn Alberth goes for 'the foot'.
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Post by shoshin on Sept 6, 2015 10:23:29 GMT
When I kissed the teacher in When I Kissed the Teacher |
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Post by mwilson on Sept 6, 2015 14:14:19 GMT
Wonder how many takes he was lucky enough to get for that scene.
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Post by shoshin on Oct 24, 2015 16:43:25 GMT
Most of us will have seen the uncomfortable pre-Honey,Honey band introduction on Star Parade, in which Agnetha is disproportionately acclaimed by the audience compared to Frida. So I thought I would even it up with the reverse experience. Here, Frida gets the shout from the audience, while Agnetha doesn't receive any applause at all. In fact, Björn does better on that score |
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Post by mwilson on Oct 26, 2015 13:35:12 GMT
Here, Frida gets the shout from the audience... And the wave back that she does to the random audience member is so cute. It's like she was so much in her element, just loving people back. |
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Post by chelseacharger on Oct 26, 2015 16:46:42 GMT
As a charm offensive, it's easy to see how they bowled the Aussies over. In fact 'charm offensive' seems a bit cynical really. I think they lived up to how they were imagined to be by just being themselves.
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Post by chelseacharger on Dec 2, 2015 18:54:02 GMT
A couple of cool recent uploads on Youtube. First one is 'The Charlie Norman Show' from 1970. There's some great live music throughout. Frida features at 01:55, 7:28 ('Love and Marriage') and 24:52 ('Baby Love' and closing number).
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