
The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The DVD includes a promo video and a really good, hour-long BBC documentary about the making of the album. This CD+DVD deluxe feels like a future collectible but has never been particularly cheap UNTIL NOW – you can pick it up for under £9 at the time of writing.
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Released earlier this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band winning the Eurovision Song Contest, the CD element of this Waterloo deluxe has lots of familiar foreign language versions as bonus tracks, but unlike Ring Ring boasts a really good DVD packed full of clips and interviews including the iconic Eurovision performance. The DVD is perhaps a little thin and comes with the now obligatory (and boring) ‘International Sleeve Gallery’ but still worth picking up for less than £7. This 40th anniversary edition issued in autumn 2013 includes quite a few interesting early versions of songs from embryonic versions of the band including the 1970 recording There’s A Little Man, featuring Agnetha on backing vocals (her first contribution to a recording written and produced by Björn and Benny) and Man vill ju leva lite dessemellan, a 1972 hit single for Frida featuring backing vocals by her fellow ABBA members. That version reached number 4 in Sweden.Amazingly ABBA’s first album (originally issued under the Björn, Benny & Agnetha Frida moniker) wasn’t issued in the UK until 1992. In 2000, the ABBA tribute band A-Teens released a very In Sweden, it peaked at number 4 in 2008. This re-released version charted in a few countries, including in ABBA’s own Sweden. Almost two decades later (in 1999), the song was released again as a single. It was released for the first time in 1980.

And yes the original plot of this track was laden with humor!

However, after changing the plot of the song, the title also changed. The original title of this track was “Daddy Don’t Get Drunk on Christmas Day”.In addition to that, she sang the background vocals with the rest of ABBA. ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog handled all the lead vocals on this track.The pair wrote it while holidaying in Barbados. The song was co-written and co-produced by ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
