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Post by Fafner on Aug 11, 2015 11:18:24 GMT
^ Yeah, I agree it's a nice photo. I remember that I saw a few more from that occasion, maybe I'll find them somewhere and post. Edit: here they are, just scroll down a bit to "ABBA in German press - Summer 1981" www.raffem.com/TheVisitorsNew.htm#5 |
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Post by HOMETIME on Aug 11, 2015 11:25:03 GMT
I first saw them in a UK tabloid in the summer of 1981. I don't know if they were taken by Anders Hanser. I have a feeling that the paper's own photographer might have snapped them, as there was one shot of Agnetha holding a cigarette that was used to illustrate a comment about a nervous Agnetha "chain-smoking" her way through the interview (they made out that she was still languishing in the depths after her divorce; Frida, meanwhile, was supposedly upbeat and in love with a new fella. Typical tabloid vapidity).
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Post by Fafner on Aug 12, 2015 16:23:05 GMT
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Post by dizzymoe33 on Aug 12, 2015 19:00:55 GMT
^^Very nice thanks fafner  |
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Post by Fafner on Aug 14, 2015 14:17:31 GMT
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Post by mwilson on Aug 14, 2015 15:33:59 GMT
I wonder if something was done to touch up Agnetha's face here. Is it just me or does she look very different, almost like another person?
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Post by Fafner on Aug 14, 2015 15:46:12 GMT
I wonder if something was done to touch up Agnetha's face here. Is it just me or does she look very different, almost like another person? I'm not sure what you mean, to me she looks pretty normal. |
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Post by Fafner on Aug 14, 2015 21:46:00 GMT
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Post by shotdowninaction on Aug 15, 2015 15:02:08 GMT
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Post by Fafner on Aug 15, 2015 16:09:12 GMT
Slightly better quality -  |
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Post by gogo on Aug 15, 2015 18:04:19 GMT
I never liked this photo session. The clothes, the hairstyles, the smiles ... it all looks so uninteresting ... ordinary middle-class
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Post by Fafner on Aug 17, 2015 13:53:46 GMT
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Post by Fafner on Aug 18, 2015 18:32:31 GMT
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Post by Fafner on Aug 19, 2015 20:46:30 GMT
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Post by Fafner on Aug 19, 2015 21:05:49 GMT
I hope you noticed Agnetha's eyes, pretty creepy  |
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Post by Fafner on Aug 20, 2015 15:21:02 GMT
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Post by mwilson on Aug 20, 2015 16:06:05 GMT
This may have been when Frida was on tour promoting her solo album around '72...before Abba was really a "thing".  |
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Post by Fafner on Aug 21, 2015 20:07:54 GMT
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Post by Fafner on Aug 25, 2015 14:21:21 GMT
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Post by dizzymoe33 on Aug 26, 2015 18:25:02 GMT
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Post by Fafner on Aug 26, 2015 18:29:37 GMT
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Post by dizzymoe33 on Aug 26, 2015 19:24:46 GMT
Thanks fafner for the larger image  ) This is one of my favorite photo sessions |
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Post by shotdowninaction on Aug 26, 2015 20:24:29 GMT
Rune Söderqvist's design of the album sleeve for The Visitors was partly inspired by this song's theme. He recalls: "I knew the painter Julius Kronberg's studio in Skansen very well and immediately thought of this place when I found out one of the songs was called 'Like An Angel Passing Through My Room'. He had painted this huge angel called Eros which you can see on the sleeve. I love the atmosphere created by photographer Lars Larsson, although I have bad memories of the photo shoot because it was very cold. Benny arrived late, there was no heating and the atmosphere was tense. You could feel that it was the end of the group. When you look you can see that they are all standing away from each other. Without anyone of us being aware of it, it looks like they're living in separate worlds on the sleeve. The photo shoot was very brief that day because everyone was in a hurry to leave  |
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Post by HOMETIME on Aug 27, 2015 10:55:33 GMT
I absolutely love the photos for the cover of "The Visitors" and I can't believe that so few have been published. Apart from these "tester" shots. there are only a handful of vaguely different versions of what is, essentially, the same shot. I'd be surprised if there weren't some solo headshots from the session. Then again, if ABBA all look as somber and down as they do in the available shots, maybe it's no wonder. Frida, in particular, looks very glum here.
Actually, the "Voulez-Vous" cover shots are also just as rare. I hope there'll be a proper photographic excavation some day that lets us see much more.
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Post by Fafner on Aug 27, 2015 16:00:31 GMT
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Post by shoshin on Aug 27, 2015 17:08:01 GMT
Coincidentally I bought this album a couple of weeks back and intend to start a thread about it. I had been meaning to buy it on the web for a while, but then I saw it for £3.99 at The Range (superstore). The reason I bought it is that for the most part I like the song selection, so it's useful for the car. The thread will be to find out how many of the tracks would be on other people's own imaginary 'essential' compilation. The pic on the reverse of this insert is good too: sitting on a Sweden flag in a field. You know the one? What I'm really interested in though is the pic on the back of the CD. It is clear from their clothes and background that it's from the GGG 'recording session' video shoot. They are seated, in the middle of performing an acoustic number, with both B & B playing guitar and all four of them singing away. It doesn't look too posed. Each of the boys is playing A Major, albeit two different chord shapes. This means that they can't really be singing GGG; there's a very brief A Major in it, but Agnetha would be looking rather more out of breath after her 'praaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayer' So what would they be singing and why? Hmmm.. ideas? |
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Post by Fafner on Aug 27, 2015 17:16:16 GMT
Coincidentally I bought this album a couple of weeks back and intend to start a thread about it. I had been meaning to buy it on the web for a while, but then I saw it for £3.99 at The Range (superstore). The reason I bought it is that for the most part I like the song selection, so it's useful for the car. The thread will be to find out how many of the tracks would be on other people's own imaginary 'essential' compilation. The pic on the reverse of this insert is good too: sitting on a Sweden flag in a field. You know the one? What I'm really interested in though is the pic on the back of the CD. It is clear from their clothes and background that it's from the GGG 'recording session' video shoot. They are seated, in the middle of performing an acoustic number, with both B & B playing guitar and all four of them singing away. It doesn't look too posed. Each of the boys is playing A Major, albeit two different chord shapes. This means that they can't really be singing GGG; there's a very brief A Major in it but Agnetha would be looking rather more out of breath after her 'praaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayer' So what would they be singing and why? Hmmm.. ideas? You mean this picture?  |
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Post by shoshin on Aug 27, 2015 17:25:54 GMT
Coincidentally I bought this album a couple of weeks back and intend to start a thread about it. I had been meaning to buy it on the web for a while, but then I saw it for £3.99 at The Range (superstore). The reason I bought it is that for the most part I like the song selection, so it's useful for the car. The thread will be to find out how many of the tracks would be on other people's own imaginary 'essential' compilation. The pic on the reverse of this insert is good too: sitting on a Sweden flag in a field. You know the one? What I'm really interested in though is the pic on the back of the CD. It is clear from their clothes and background that it's from the GGG 'recording session' video shoot. They are seated, in the middle of performing an acoustic number, with both B & B playing guitar and all four of them singing away. It doesn't look too posed. Each of the boys is playing A Major, albeit two different chord shapes. This means that they can't really be singing GGG; there's a very brief A Major in it but Agnetha would be looking rather more out of breath after her 'praaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayer' So what would they be singing and why? Hmmm.. ideas? You mean this picture? Interesting! Because, no it's not that one. They aren't playing A major there  Benny is either holding an E major or an A minor there; same shape but different strings and I can't quite make out the strings. It looks like an A minor, but E major would be a more likely candidate when there's already an A major in the song. The shape of the girls' lips is different too, which will also help us to eventually narrow the song down. Do you have more? I love this kind of a challenge, regardless of how pointless the result may be |
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Post by Fafner on Aug 27, 2015 17:29:56 GMT
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Post by shoshin on Aug 27, 2015 17:42:03 GMT
Yes, that's it: 'If It Wasn't For The Night'  |
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) This is one of my favorite photo sessions 
