Mamma Mia! How could fans resist you?

EDMONTON - Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?

In 1974, in the oddball English seaside resort of Brighton, the Eurovision Song Contest found its winner in a sleek Swedish pop group who cheerfully referenced Napoleon and sang of facing their Waterloo in love.

Long famous for assisting dubious Euro-pop groups along the road from obscurity direct to oblivion, the judges miscalculated wildly with ABBA. Can they have realized that by picking Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anna-Frid (over the smiley Olivia Newton-John, for one) they were unleashing a contagion into the world bloodstream, an epidemic that would have people dancing in the aisles of formal auditoria more than three decades later? And exiting the theatre humming Dancing Queen in German, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin?

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source:Edmonton Journal