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Thank You For The Music An All-Star Tribute ABBA TV Special
Airdate: 18 December 2018 !!
It's going to be amazing !
Not only do we get to see the ABBAtars for the very first time - before they tour them in 2019 - but we also hear ABBA's 2 brand new songs !! Wow, how exciting is this ??? The international ABBA tribute TV broadcast will be produced/directed by
Swedish director Johan Renck, creative music video director for
Madonna, Beyonce and Kylie Minogue among
others.
Executive producer is Simon Fuller, creator of the TV concept
‘Idol’ and manager to the Spice Girls.
Es Devlin is onboard as set
designer, known for her works with Adele, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Olympic
Games ceremonies.
The TV Show of the Millenium. "This is going to be Worldwide" !! 😀😍
Ma'am-a-Mia! Queen allows 500 staff and guests to party at Windsor Castle with music played by an ABBA tribute band
Staff and guests danced the night away at Windsor Castle to the sounds of ABBA
Fans dressed to match the band's era and sipped champagne for £12.50 a ticket
The Windsor Castle Cinema Club was recently set up for Royal Staff and guests
Her favourite song is said to be Dancing
Queen – so when Her Majesty allowed 500 staff and guests to dance the
night away at Windsor Castle, it’s no surprise the music was provided by
an Abba tribute band.
And when it got dark, the blockbuster film Mamma Mia! which features Abba’s hits, blasted out from a giant screen.
Fans
dressed in fashions from the Abba era sipped champagne and boogied the
night away as guests of the Windsor Castle Cinema Club, paying £12.50
for a ticket.
The club was set up
recently for Royal staff and guests and has already shown Star Wars at
the castle – but to have a live band and big screen film was a first.
Tanning salon owner Erika Baker, 48, from Windsor, said: ‘Members of the
Royal Household were allowed to buy tickets for themselves and guests.
'It meant lots of ordinary people from Windsor could come in for the night.'
‘Everybody was very well behaved, and once you were inside you were encouraged to really let your hair down and dance and sing.'
The Queen hires ABBA tribute band for Windsor Castle party !
The Queen opened up Windsor Castle to her 500 staff and guests for an ABBA inspired party it has been revealed.
According to The Mail on Sunday, Her Majesty gave permission for a
party to be held in the castle for her hardworking staff and their
guests.
For £12.50 a ticket, the party attendees were treated to a showing of the blockbuster film Mamma Mia!, as well as live music from an ABBA tribute band.
One Windsor resident told the Mail: “Members of the Royal Household were allowed to buy tickets for themselves and guests.
“It meant lots of ordinary people from Windsor could come in for the night.
“Everybody was very well behaved, and once you were inside you were encouraged to really let your hair down and dance and sing.”
The Queen is reportedly a huge fan of ABBA and loves to dance along to the music.
BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans told a friend that Her Majesty made the
revelation during a dinner at Windsor Castle much to the amusement of
guests.
When the song Dancing Queen came on, she apparently said: “I always
try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen, and I like
to dance.”
Guests were said to have been surprised by the news, reacting: “My goodness me, there is the Dancing Queen.”
The 91-year-old Monarch is known to be a fan of music, and recently revealed she would love to sing.
This revelation comes from 23-year-old Laura Wright, who will be
performing the National Anthem this weekend at the England versus Wales
rugby match at Twickenham Stadium.
According to Ms Wright, The Queen told her that she would love to be
able to sing and has even personally been told by Gary Barlow himself
that it is “just a matter of learning”.
The Queen opens up Windsor Castle to allow Abba tribute band to perform for 500 music fans
After the concert, that took place yards from The Queen's private
royal apartments, the hit film Mamma Mia, was shown on a giant screen in
her Quadrangle.
THE Queen threw open
the gates of Windsor Castle to allow 500 music fans in to dance the
night away to an Abba tribute band — right outside her own private royal
apartments.
And then when it got dark she gave permission for the hit film Mamma
Mia, based on the music of Abba, to be shown on a giant screen in her
Quadrangle to carry on the party.
It was no surprise the Queen gave it the thumbs up after DJ Chris
Evans revealed that Abba’s Dancing Queen was her favourite song and that
she was a huge fan of the group.
Hundreds of fans dressed in 1970s and 1980s costumes sipped champagne
and boogied the night away as guests of the Windsor Castle Cinema Club
paying £12.50 for a ticket.
The Royal Quadrangle is rarely open to the public but last month
while the Queen was at Balmoral she allowed it to be opened up for household staff and their guests to enjoy.
The Windsor Castle Cinema Club was set up recently and has already
shown Star Wars at the Castle — but to have a live band and big screen
film is a first at the Queen’s home.
Her Majesty was dubbed the Dancing Queen by the Swede Dreamz Abba
tribute band that played more than 20 of the super-group’s top hits
including Mamma Mia and Waterloo.
Hits like Knowing Me Knowing You, Chiquitita, Super Trouper and
Money, Money, Money reverberated off the castle walls taking their fans
back to the Swedish band’s heyday.
The idea is to celebrate some of the most significant, influential and successful singers and bands in the world.
This celebration can be for various major anniversaries but also for a musical genre or a particular decade for example.
The first Eurovision tribute programme will be dedicated to Abba.
The aim is to honour singers and bands in a programme or event, driven by the European Broadcasting Union and its Member broadcasters in partnership with various record companies. In the case of this first tribute programme, the Steering Group has agreed to develop a top quality show that could include archive material, and some of the world's best singers on stage. The show will focus on 12 songs, with a mix of ranking and televoting.
A detailed format is under development and will be presented at various meetings during the course of 2013.
The programme will be produced in autumn 2014, celebrating Abba's career and the 40 years of their winning song “Waterloo” in 1974. Members of the group are involved in developing the concept over the next few months and could make one or more appearances during the show.
