Come on then, how many people gave or received this DVD for Christmas?

seen i think 23 times at last viewing

Nope. I received an Incredible String Band cd and didn't give anyone any cds at all

Terrible film . I'd rather watch the Sound of music ..

I can assure you its dreadful, make excuses when she put it on ,and get out the house....

And people say nothing great ever came from Eurovision !

I haven't watched it or got the DVD but I want to.

It's only our manhoods getting in the away Sussex: us thinking we might become any less masculine if we watch it.

Whatever happened to forgetting your inhibitions and just bloody enjoy youirself for once ?

I taped High School Musical on Christmas Eve to watch after shopping. I bloody enjoyed it - didn't make me any less juvenile or a man.

Somehow i think you will enjoy it Pok ..

Nothing wrong with my manhood thank you Pok ..Inhibitions ???/

Of course, I would, Sussex, because I'm not afraid of people thinking I'm any less of a man by watching it.

You don't become one of the highest grossing films at the box office by just being popular with girls.

Well, being quietly glad you live in Eastbourne and not.....Brighton, its full of poofs and coons ! (Sorry, horrendous use of stereotype there).

Are you saying i should be watching Mamma Mia and Seven brides for Seven brothers instead of You Porn .. Pok

No, of course not, Sussex - nothing wrong with watching them both....I only do the same.

Abba were famous before Eurovision and won it because of that, you tool

Er, no they weren't.

Read their Wikipedia page.

But Waterloo put them on the World stage....Advantage to Pok ..

Elvis, honestly mate, I know what I'm saying here, Wikipedia says they released an album with a successful hit before Brighton 1974 and Waterloo, but the single or album didn't chart in the UK.

I don't want to sound patronising, Elvis, but I've watched the contest ever since I was young - when I've always read or watched things about them that have been on the TV etc, they always say they really broke through when they won in Brighton.

Elvis was just trying to say they where big in Sweden , Fm Lapland and on Radio eskimo pok ...

Oh yeah, yeah I think they entered the Melodifesitvalen (Sweden's national selection contest for Eurovision) once before, released an album, had a hit in Norway etc.

You tell em mate .

Tell me you had to look that up somewhere because if you didn't, I mean you actually knew that, I will find you between now and daylight and kill you.

Fuck me. Do you ever know when to stop talking?

And don't want to sound patronising? You're talking to the voice of music on this message board after 18 years on this earth. You're younger than me, ffs. Know your place

Encouraged by this success, they entered the 1973 Swedish selections for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ‘Ring Ring’. They finished third, but the single and the album of the same name competed for the top positions on the Swedish chart. ‘Ring Ring’ also became a hit in several other European countries.

The group entered the selections again in 1974, this time with ‘Waterloo’, which took them all the way to the finals in Brighton, England. By this time they had changed their name to ABBA, an acronym of their first names. ABBA was also the name of a Swedish canned fish company, which luckily agreed to lending their name to a pop group. The Eurovision Song Contest on April 6, 1974 turned out to be the most famous moment in ABBA history, when the group won the international juries over with ‘Waterloo’.

That's charming, that is.

I was only having a friendly chat with Elvis and only telling him what I know and whay I thought something he said was wrong.

Scrap on, scrap on!

[quote="no6bus"]Encouraged by this success, they entered the 1973 Swedish selections for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song ‘Ring Ring’. They finished third, but the single and the album of the same name competed for the top positions on the Swedish chart. ‘Ring Ring’ also became a hit in several other European countries.

The group entered the selections again in 1974, this time with ‘Waterloo’, which took them all the way to the finals in Brighton, England. By this time they had changed their name to ABBA, an acronym of their first names. ABBA was also the name of a Swedish canned fish company, which luckily agreed to lending their name to a pop group. The Eurovision Song Contest on April 6, 1974 turned out to be the most famous moment in ABBA history, when the group won the international juries over with ‘Waterloo’.[/quote]

Ring Ring only charted, according to Wikipedia, I may emphasise, at no 32.

And 1974 was their most famous moment because it made them.

then i suggest you broaden your horizon and look on abba's official site and learn that music exists outside the uk and the eurovision

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STUPID BOY

Ring Ring only charted, according to Wikipedia, I may emphasise, at no 32.

And 1974 was their most fasmous monet because it made them.[/quote]

oh they painted as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

And even with that information for the website, they even really didn't begin to be successful intil 1974.

And please don't call me stupid, thank you.

oh they painted as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet[/quote]

Alright, slip of the finger on the keyboard, I know.

Nothing mattered in 74 unless we or the Yanks had heard of it ...Abba where nothing till Waterloo ... accept it ..

but the single and the album of the same name competed for the top positions on the Swedish chart. ‘Ring Ring’ also became a hit in several other European countries.

which bit dont you understand

It only reached 32 in the charts though.

Top post, Sussex.

but the single and the album of the same name competed for the top positions on the Swedish chart. ‘Ring Ring’ also became a hit in several other European countries.

i have gave you a clue that it reached higher than no 32

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Ring_(song)

I refer the honourable gentleman to the chart positions on the son's Wikipedia list. Yes it was a hit in other countries, but it wasn't successful over here, so that proves that before 1974 we hardly knew about them and were not successful in the UK.

It wasn't until 1974 when Europe, the UK, Australia and the US in particular took notice of them and their fame became global.

I'm losing the will to live.

Why do you keep quoting wikipedia as some kind of solid reference? It is edited and vandalised by the minute. Nothing you read there can be taken as gospel.

so only music big in the uk counts

admit elvis was right and you were wrong
abba were a succesful group on mainland europe but not on a little island in the north sea i understand your logic

Don't shatter his illusions Mr I.

Can we get enough members together to form a firing squad, I'll supply the rifles, sandbags and post .... and against firing squad etiqutte, ALL the rounds will be live. Anyone want to sign up?

This thread puts a serious black mark on the music knowledge of some of the senior members of the " music police " on this board.....

me please sir

I fully concur.

no it just shows how little our young friend from the south knows