An incompetent radio DJ tries to get an interview with the Swedish pop group during their famous week-long 1977 tour of Australia.
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| Anni-Frid Lyngstad | ... | Herself | |
| Benny Andersson | ... | Himself | |
| Björn Ulvaeus | ... | Himself | |
| Agnetha Fältskog | ... | Herself | |
| Robert Hughes | ... | Ashley Wallace, the disc Jockey | |
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Tom Oliver | ... | Bodyguard / Bartender / Taxi Driver |
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Bruce Barry | ... | Radio Station Manager |
| Stig Anderson | ... | ABBA Manager | |
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Calvin Cross | ... | Featured Fan |
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Ivar Dahlbom | ... | Featured Fan |
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Harry Lawrence | ... | Featured Fan |
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Michael Mansson | ... | Hotel receptionist (as Michael Manson) |
| Sandy Mansson | ... | Girl in box office (as Sandy Manson) | |
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Ray Marshall | ... | Featured Fan |
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Frances Matthews | ... | Featured Fan |
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Movie detailing ABBA's mega-successful tour of Australia during mid-1977. While it mostly contains back-stage footage and as well as ABBA's famous songs such as "Dancing Queen", "Tiger", "Name Of The Game" and "Eagle" among others sung filmed during their concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, it has the sub-plot of young country and western radio disc-jockey, Ashley, whose boss orders him to have a deep interview with ABBA and the problems he has trying to reach them as he forgets his press pass and ABBA's main bodyguard, (Tom Oliver) is determined to stop him... Written by Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
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February 1979 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Performed by ABBA
Published by EMI Groove Park Music Inc.
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The acronym ABBA, which forms part of this movie's title, stands for Annifred, Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha, the first names of the rock band's four members. See more »Goofs
Throughout the film, Ashley pursues ABBA through the cities of Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne in that order. The actual tour went in the order of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. See more »Quotes
Taxi Driver: Anyway, there she was with what they say is the most beautiful bottom in Europe. Well, I guess it's, you know, I've seen a few bottoms in me time, I guess it was pretty nice. You know, we are hot blood males, well, I quite admired it, you know, in a way, because I could take all of that sort of thing. But, not in front of the wife and kids! And it's not the sort of thing you want to go flashin' at 'em, is it? I mean, in front of thousands, literally thousands of little kids, flashin' it away ...See more »
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Available in three different final soundmixes! One mono, and two different in stereo, one with only three frontchannels, and one with a fourth surround channel. See more »Soundtracks
Intermezzo No.1Written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Performed by ABBA
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Now that it's out in DVD, the ABBA fans who missed the movie when originally released can delight in seeing their favorite group as they were then. Even though, the band has been disbanded for over 20 years, ABBA was unique for groups of the time, in that they left a fairly large legacy of surprisingly good quality videos of their music. This movie, although trite contains a fascinating video record of one of their most impressive tours. With the introduction of the musical Mamma Mia (based on ABBA songs) on Broadway several years back, which started an ABBA resurgence of sorts, the existence of videos like this one has let another whole generation get hooked on ABBA music. ABBA was an extremely attractive and very talented group which will live on through these videos. The video and sound quality of the DVDs ( I watch on an HD set ) is excellent considering the time period they were recorded. I liked ABBA back then, but never really followed their music closely. Now I'm hooked, and grateful for the video record that exists of " one of the greatest pop groups that ever was" ( from U2)