Eurovision artists at Oprah Show - video

Oprah shows snippets of different artists that have competed in the Eurovision song contest since it began.

Julio Iglesias, ABBA, Celine Dion, Charlotte Perrelli, Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, Laka, Ani Lorak, Andy Abraham, Vlad Mirita, Kalomoira, Sakis Rouvas, Elena Gheorghe, Alexander Rybak, Dima Bilan and others.




via

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?

Read full article HERE

source:Edmonton Journal

Compact Disk celebrates 25th birthday

The CD celebrated its 25th birthday yesterday 20th June. ABBA’s album The Visitors was the first commercially released Compact Disc; it introduced a new level of sound quality to the general consumer and changed the way music could be heard in the mass market. more...


Read also:
"It is small and round, provides enjoyable, crackle-free, crystal-clear sound, and it set off an acoustic revolution 25 years ago: the first pop CD to be made from Bayer’s high-tech material Makrolon® was ABBA’s album “The Visitors” in 1982. The compact disc produced the songs of the Swedish cult band in a sound quality that was totally new at the time, so that this shiny object totally changed the international music industry. It also changed the way people listened to music – for ever. What is more, it heralded the global conquest of optical data storage." .....full article here

ESC Singers Go ABBA

from escmalta.com

Many Estonian artists are going to perform in Õllesummer, biggest beer festival in the region, at this summer in the Tallinn Song Festival ground.

Beside individual perfomances, lots of artists are going to sing greatest hits of ABBA.

Last week Lenna Kuurmaa (Switzerland 2005) and Tanel Padar (winner 2001) recorded last week Estonian version of 'Waterloo', which is introduction of the big concert, where Estonian artists are singing ABBA songs.

With this concert organisers of Õllesummer wants to celebrate 35th anniversary of ABBA.Besides Lenna Kuurmaa and Tanel Padar also Ines (ESC 2000), Dave Benton (Winner 2001), Ivo Linna (ESC 1996), Marju Länik and Gerli Padar (ESC 2007) will perform.
They will sing ABBA hits in Estonian as well as in English.

Concert takes place on 8th July at 8PM.