Friday, June 18, 2010

"Waterloo" by ABBA



On this day in 1815 the Battle of Waterloo ended the reign of terror visited upon Europe by Napoleon Bonaparte, brought laurels to the two commanders who'd defeated him - Britain's Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Gebhard von Blücher - and unleashed a torrent of pop culture in its wake.

One of my personal favourites, though, has always been ABBA's song Waterloo - which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974* - launching the Swedish disco-cheese merchants on their own personal reign of terror of the pop charts. The song appears on the band's greatest hits album ABBA Gold.

*And which award-winning performance has in the past been shown above, when available...
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2 comments:

  1. GavinThursday, June 26, 2008 at 4:49:00 PM PDT

    I love ABBA...not sure about Meryl Streep starring in Dancing Queen, tho.

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  2. Seumas GagneFriday, June 27, 2008 at 12:17:00 AM PDT

    Oh muh gawdz - I saw the trailer for Mama Mia. Meryl is pushing the envelope - and her plastic surgeon's skills!

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