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Wednesday 16 January 2013

ABBA Bang A Boomerang Australian Doco

A little synopsis on the doco from the ABC website:
 

ABBA: Bang a Boomerang

Documentary/FactualClosed Captions AvailableRated: M57 mins
abc18:30pm Wednesday, January 30 2013
ABBA: Bang a Boomerang

ABBA: Bang a Boomerang

Synopsis

ABBA: Bang a Boomerang tells the inside story of Australia's colossal 70s crush on the Swedish supergroup ABBA and their music, and how this unequalled and enduring fan-worship changed them and us forever.

ABC's innovative music program Countdown and its host Molly Meldrum were instrumental in bringing ABBA to a burgeoning mid-70s television audience looking for something different. It was due to Countdown that Mamma Mia was released as a single, first in Australia and then the world, and the ABBA phenomenon was born. Viewers were going into record shops wanting to buy the single. Molly rang RCA records asking about the release of Mamma Mia and was told there were no plans to do so.

"We then played it again in defiance and they had no option but to release it... it was lucky, it went to number one," Meldrum said.

ABBA: Bang a Boomerang digs deep into heartfelt memories, cardboard cartons of memorabilia, face-to-face encounters, local pop icon recounts, lavish personal and public ABBA museums and Australia's rich media archives to relive a moment of collective national 'craziness', when we did literally go ABBA mad. The result is a warm, bright, captivating engagement with ABBA's time Down Under that will remind us all of the band's impact and how our open-hearted embrace of all things ABBA would eventually define us. One in three Australian households owned an ABBA record - from Prime Minister Fraser to eight year olds around the nation, we were hooked even if some of us didn't want to admit it back then and we didn't realise the crush would be for keeps.
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3 comments:

  1. Angela23 January 2013 at 11:24

    This will bring back some memories.

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    1. Roxanne Dickson23 January 2013 at 22:17

      Yes .. amazing memories :)

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    2. Angela30 January 2013 at 20:50

      Just watched the Abba special it was great I remember when I first saw the Mamma mia film clip I would have been about 12 going on 13 years old and when they did the special we only had a black and white TV at the time.

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