Gonna bring you some light

There are basically three different kind of photographs:

1. the promotional picture

2. the concert/show photo

3. the "private" picture

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+ of course every photograph that doesn't fit in one of those categories!

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the promo

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in concert

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in private, well not really cause she knew Anders Hansers was around to take pictures

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outdoor casual picture that could be used as a promotional photograph

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outdoor casual on business pushing some modelling clay thing picture that was used later in many magazines as a promo picture

Don’t look too deep into those angeleyes

Sunglasses!

You can't live without them, especially when you are a female celebrity (celebreteuse).

Sunglasses :

*are fashionable

*make you look cool

*hide tired and puffy eyes fom photographers.

*protect your eyes

*etc etc...

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Ofcouse she needed these ice blue pair of glasses. The Alps: snow blindness, très dangerous!

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You see, there was no need for men to be fashionable, cool etc. At least not in the 70s.

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This is clearly a fashion statement by Agnetha.

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Hmmm....reading glasses?

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The look of 1974

Please surrender

Frida just luuuuuuurves horses!

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Björn has a VERY big aura

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Who threw that big balloon?

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Benny is the man!

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Hallo!

The songs that you and I don’t sing

Agnetha & Frida finally found the perfect shoes for Björn.

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Sometimes Frida needs the help of a lyrics sheet.

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I think the coast is clear Görel!

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How four people can interpret a song in four different ways.

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Bizar fashion of 1980: big furs and yellow belts.

I was blind but now I see

So what's with ABBA this time?

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Giant knee Agnetha

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Kick ass Frida (unfortunately we can't see who's ass)

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Hole in their souls/soles Frida and Benny

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after dinnner Agnetha and Linda

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"help I have a famous daughter" Alfred

Hiding their shame behind hollow laughter

Leftovers

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It's even kind of romantic!

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This could have been a nice picture if it wasn't for that top 40 printed on her face.

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How could he: sing behind her back

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Obviously it isn't her birthday, she isn't 34 anymore and she isn't particulary hübsch (pretty) in this picture.

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well...

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She's red and she's proud and there's a hand in front of her

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marvellous!

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really really bad scan

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At least Frida wears a nice hat

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Björn and Frida never looked so....blurred....sexy....invisible...

Det är som jag hörde en sång

...and guess who are the two prettiest ladies in that picture (and the most famous and the richest)

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-sigh- this is so sweet. Newborn baby with his mommy.

(Did anybody see these pictures of Christina Aguilera with her newborn? Or Jennifer Lopez? Or any other of those new stars? All with heavy make up trying to look like the virgin Mary with their baby as an accessory. )

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Benny en Anni-Frid?

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Laughing relay race

Yes, I think it’s takin’ on a new dimension

Hallooooooo!!!

Long time no see.

How about some ABBA and advertising?

Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.

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There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's Mastercard

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Triumph has the bra for the way you are.

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Starbucks Frappuccino. Work can wait.

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Maclean your teeth!

No smiles, not a single word

There was a time when people said ABBA were all plastic smiles, fake, not real.

Smiles?

Where?

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yeah, Bjorn and his dog are having a hell of a time here

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but this was a dead serious photo shoot

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Frida sometimes had to try very hard not to start laughing hysterically

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sitting in bowl isn't funny

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the girls are not able to see the joke of it.

The poster on the wall

...of superduper classic ABBA

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Oh yes it's them! The super healthy fresh Swedes!

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Two women, a blonde and a brunette, and two men

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famous also for their outrageous style

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the mysterious brunette with the sensuous voice...

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and the sexy blonde with the crystal voice

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(mind you this is how most non-fans remember them)

The secrets that my paradise can bring

They look like they wash indeed!

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very clean girl

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Frida bought herself some taxfree soap

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b eeerm... something with voulez-vous..

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at least they can sing too

The gods may throw a dice

Always nice to to read someone elses view on ABBA. This one from Time magazine is from 2001.

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Four pleasant Swedes chiming away in phrase-book English, their faces round and blank as aspirin.

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Because the band -- composed of keyboard player Benny Andersson, his girlfriend (later his wife) Anni-Frid Lyngstad, guitarist Bjorn Ulvaeus and Bjorn's wife Agnetha Faltskog -- rarely toured, Abba could seem as featureless as a supermarket bar code.

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For one thing, they had a way of making English sound like Esperanto.

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And their famous choiring sound, exalted but weirdly anonymous, could have been the ambient hum from...>>>

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some bland consumer Utopia, a room-temperature limbo of airline food and spandex and unisex haircuts.

Tell me wasn’t it worth the while

La la la la la!

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Afraid, us?

I think not!

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playful: something with a t-shirt and magazine covers

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The shorts looked sexy the elbow protectors were even cool but the rollerskating was nothing to write home about. What if she would fall on her knees?

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lalalalala head over heels lalalala laaaa

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lalalalala why did it lalalalaaa

Come and rescue me now

Hi.

I'b hawingk a gold, dot weelingk doo well. Bud you kdow, life goez od, godda go to work doborrow adyway...

How did ABBA cope wid golds, headachez add oder discobford? Dey were odly huban after all...

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watch out: Agnetha is going to sneeze!

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hay fever anyone?

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oh. oh. Agnetha, I can't move my leg anymore!

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ouchie! My back hurts! Any handsome doctors around?

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taking her pulse, just in case

Pourtant, j’ai bien tenté de résister mais en vain

From the Official Fanclub Magazine nr 93, December 2007

"Frida described the fans as "very faithful" and said that most of the letters she was still getting, some of which amazingly from teenagers, were rather lovely. However, both she and Björn found it difficult to understand what made the fans 'tick' - in some cases for more than 30 years- as neither had had an idol during their teenage years.

"It's peculiar thing that you mean so much to people that you don't even know [...]"

OK, it's official: I'm a freak.

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I've tried, I've really tried. But it's that music, I can't help but listen to it!

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The music and that voice...

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and that voice....you know what I mean?

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this one I made only 26 years ago, see, not 30. (not that it proves anything)

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Now look what you've done. Yes you, with your Swedish wholesomeness and perfect music: you have turned me into a Fan For Live.

AAAAaaaaaaaaaRrRRrrrrrGGrrrrrgggggggg!!!!!!!!

A boome-boomerang is love

Shallow and fairly obvious observations

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Lyrics, records, boomerangs. Everything Björn touches turns into gold. His band mates watch him in awe.

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I have always admired Sherbet's two female singers. The two men were awesome too.

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Woh! Not so fast Frida!

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Interior decoration has never been her forte.

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Thank god for compact powder.

Why should I pretend

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dress

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hands

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pyjamas

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cool

One look and you’re hypnotized

Eyes!

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She could see it with her very own eyes...she put on the wrong colour eyeshadow

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Agnetha, as far as the eye can see

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keeping her eyes open

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his.. eyelids... were.... becoming...... heavy

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her eyes are bigger than her stomach, or actually those grapes are bigger than her stomach

Wishing she had never left at all

A little different

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Björn and his first love Christine.

Ew! ACBA? ABCA?

Well, at least Chrissie can say she once dated Björn of ABBA

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Knowing you, you're happy you are wearing that fur coat right now

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Annifrid Lyngstad looked stylish in a black tuxedo. A few days later she would travel to Japan. Lill-Babs secretary (?) Vicky von der Lancken (right)

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Agnetha Fältskog saw the exposition with nanny Birgitta Dahl.

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all dressed up!

Do I see the signs I think I see

OK. Let's do another one.

The good , the bad, and the one that didn't sleep that well last night.

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It's nothing. It's just very bad light

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This is in fact the same woman as on the first photo

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Agnetha: elegant. Elegant with a bad hair day. Come to think of it, it just wasn't her day at all.

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This certainly was her day.

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