In 1999, ABBA turned down an offer of $1 billion to do a reunion tour, with Benny quipping "We're the band that does not come back." With all their worldwide success, 8 albums, and songs that are being covered & re-covered by new artists 30 years later, it's hard to believe the cultural colossus known as ABBA only toured twice.
A film showing the Swedish pop group ABBA's tour of North America and Europe in 1979. The majority of the film is devoted to the concert at Wembley Arena in London but we also have footage from certain US concerts plus backstage and between-concerts scenes.
As an ABBA fan, I was enthralled to see this-their tour of the U.S.
Being a huge and devoted ABBA Fan for about 30 years, I was thrilled that the '79 ABBA concert was finally released on DVD! But due to time constrictions when the concert was filmed for television, there is a bunch of concert footage that wasn't included.
Abba only toured twice in their extremely successful career, and ABBA in Concert followed their 1979 tour of the United States and Europe.
I would like to tell everybody that this concert special is perfect!! Although there are songs that were not included on the DVD, a lot of Abba's greatest hits were included.
ABBA were never known as a live act. In fact in their hey day, they were accused of being a hit machine.
