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I’m ashamed that I used to think ABBA wasn’t cool

13 April 2024

9:00 AM

13 April 2024

9:00 AM

Radio 2 Loves Eurovision: ABBA at the BBC

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One of the joys of listening to archive BBC interviews with pop stars is the chance to hear long-discarded hipster jargon served up in its original setting. Near the beginning of Radio 2’s ABBA at the BBC, marking 50 years since the group won Eurovision with ‘Waterloo’, a prime example was unearthed from the immediate aftermath of their success.

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