New ABBA Collection Item - Agnetha Picture Disc

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Agnetha 'When You Really Loved Someone' 7" Picture Disc

Agnetha Faltskog 'I Was A Flower' Download Available Now !

Agnetha's single 'I Was A Flower' from her upcoming album 'A' is now available for download from Amazon.UK - but only for those in that region:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Was-A-Flower/dp/B00CBXIG6E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366588139&sr=8-1&keywords=agnetha+faltskog+I+was+a+flower

Agnetha Faltskog 'When You Really Loved Someone' Picture Disc !

Now available for pre-order - 7" Picture Disc !!

 



 

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/singles/agnetha-f+228ltskog-when-you-really-loved-someone-vinyl/invt/0602537376940/

Agnetha Faltskog New Song Release On CD

Agnetha Official:

 

We are pleased to announce that due to much demand we will be releasing a CD single for "When You Really Loved Someone". More info coming soon http://www.agnetha.com/

Pre-order now from the Official International Fanclub:

http://www.abbafanclubshop.nl/

 

 

Abba's Agnetha Fältskog is causing a stir – with her first album in nine years

She's been silent for nearly a decade, but now 'the blonde one' from the hit Swedish group is back at the age of 62

The Guardian, Tuesday 12 March 2013 13.20 GMT

Age: 62.
 
Appearance: No-nonsense Scandinavian returning to work after a period in the wilderness.

I don't watch The Killing. This has nothing to do with The Killing. Agnetha isn't even Danish; she's Swedish.

I'm sure there's a difference, but I don't care what it is. Who is she? She's the blonde one from Abba.

I love Abba! What are they up to? They broke up in 1982.

Oh yeah. What's Agnetha been doing in the, um, interim? Keeping herself to herself, mostly.
She's sometimes described as a recluse, although "publicity-reluctant" might be more accurate.
But did you not say something earlier about her returning to work? Well spotted. Agnetha is about to release her first album in nine years.

What's it called? A.

A? A what? A as in Agnetha. Abba, you will recall, was an acronym formed from the band members' first names, so it's fair to assume she's reclaiming her initial.

Can she handle the spotlight without her famous band to back her up? Fältskog is a respected singer-songwriter in her own right, with 18 solo Swedish chart singles and a string of international hits dating from before, during and after her work with Abba.

What about all the tiresome publicity? Won't she balk at having to pretend to date Justin Bieber? In the past the famously private Fältskog has shied away from doing any promotion, but this time she has been kitted out with a website, a Facebook page and a Twitter account, @agnethaofficial.

Is her new record any good? We shall see – it's not out until May. On the plus side she worked with Grammy-nominated producer Jörgen Elofsson, with whom she co-wrote her first song in many years. On the minus side, it contains a duet with Gary Barlow.

Could its release be a sign that Abba are getting back together? No. Abba consisted of two married couples who subsequently divorced, so the split has always had an air of permanence. Fältskog herself is said to be dead set against a reunion.

Do say: "Thank you for the music, and the occasional Facebook status update."

Don't say: "That's Agnetha with an A, and Fältskog with an umlaut."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/mar/12/agnetha-faltskog-abba-releases-album

Agnetha Faltskog New Video !!! When You Really Loved Someone

'When You Really Loved Someone' video clip in full:

 

 

Agnetha Faltskog Promotional Tour UK !

Abba's Agnetha comes out of retirement

 

By Mark Savage Arts and entertainment reporter, BBC News

Agnetha Faltskog says the media has formed the wrong impression of her as a mysterious Greta Garbo of pop

One of pop's most enigmatic voices has emerged with her first album in nine years. Agnetha Faltskog's new album sees her duet with Gary Barlow and collaborate with Britney Spears' Swedish songwriting team. Just don't call her "mysterious".

Forty-five years ago, before Abba were even a twinkle in Eurovision's eye, Agnetha Faltskog made her very first TV appearance.

Aged just 17, she performed Jag Var Sa Kar (I Was So In Love), a syrupy self-penned waltz, on Swedish TV show Studio 8.

The melancholy lyrics, inspired by her idol Connie Francis, were a stark contrast to the exuberant blonde singer, who "took the radio in my arms and danced around" when she first heard her single on the air.

Little did she know, misery would become her musical forte, especially when she teamed up with Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frida to form Abba.

"I'm very earth-grounded and very normal, I just like to stay at home”

The songs on which Faltskog took lead vocals - Hasta Manana, The Name Of The Game, Chiquitita - were the band's biggest tear-jerkers.

On The Winner Takes It All, recorded as her marriage to Bjorn Ulvaeus fell apart, the emotion is almost too much to bear.

Faltskog is by turns defiant and broken. "I was in your arms, thinking I belonged there," she cries, as her husband merely shakes her hand and turns away.

Oddly, the singer calls it "her biggest favourite" from the band's back catalogue. "It's a shame we never got to play it live," she adds.

Since the band went their separate ways in 1982, the girl with golden hair has been the band's most elusive member. She largely shuns the limelight, living quietly on the secluded island of Ekero, west of Stockholm.

Perhaps because of those world-weary lyrics, she was portrayed as a frail recluse - the Greta Garbo of pop.

The revelation in 2000 that she had entered a relationship with an obsessed Dutch fan, 16 years her junior, who turned dangerous when she broke off the affair, only added to the perception that she was lonely and unhappy.

Nervous return

Today, she cannot talk about the relationship for legal reasons, but Faltskog says the media have the wrong impression of her private life.

"I have been described as a very mysterious human being and that hurts a little bit, because it's not like that at all," she says.

Agnetha Faltskog says she had totally fallen out of the practice of singing since her Abba days

On the phone from Stockholm, she is neither awkward nor reticent, although she chooses her words carefully, sometimes with the aid of an interpreter.

Laughter peppers the conversation, and she denies any suggestion she's a hermit.

"I'm very earth-grounded and very normal," she says. "I just like to stay at home."

Fate came to her house 18 months ago, when Swedish producer Jorgen Elofsson rang the doorbell, hoping to to play Faltskog three songs he had written for her.

An internationally successful composer, his credits include Britney Spears' Crazy and Kelly Clarkson's Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You). His dream was to coax Faltskog out of a nine-year hiatus and back into the studio.

"It was flattering," says the singer. "It really was."

"I just couldn't say 'no'. I really loved the songs from the beginning."

But before Faltskog would enter the studio, she had some conditions.

"I told him, 'we have to talk about a lot of things first,'" she recalls. "It was nine or 10 years since I'd sung, so I didn't know if [my voice] worked."

"I said from the beginning, 'if it sounds old I don't want to do this, because... Why should I?'"

Tasteful and sumptuous

Listening to the album, simply titled 'A', it is clear that Faltskog's vocal cords are in fine shape.

Agnetha Faltskog has collaborated with Gary Barlow but they have never met

Elofsson, for his part, has ditched the upfront production of his teen pop hits for a sound Faltskog calls "very mature and worthy".

"When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters," sighs Faltskog on the first single, When You Really Love Someone.

On the closing track, the singer scatters photos of an old lover across her bedroom floor and wonders what happened to their relationship.

Ripe with bittersweet emotion, the song is her sole contribution as a composer. You wonder why she didn't write more.

Faltskog says she simply fell out of practice.

"During the Abba years the boys were writing nearly all the material and I didn't have any time. They asked me a lot - but when we were at home, I just wanted to be with my children.

"For this album, we had an idea that maybe I should try to write one song. I didn't want to do more. I'm not that composer that composes every day. But it was very exciting to see if it still worked - and it did!"

The album doesn't reinvent the pop wheel, but is tasteful and sumptuous, rarely raising its tempo above "mid".

One exception is Dance Your Pain Away, where disco strings stab at a gymnastic bassline, apparently summoned from the dusty off-cuts of Abba's Voulez Vous.

Another stand-out is I Should Have Followed You Home, where Faltskog trades lines with Gary Barlow.

"We haven't even met," Faltskog reveals. "I spoke to him once on the phone - but I was on holiday when he did his singing."

She hopes to meet Barlow on a forthcoming promotional trip to the UK, but says there are currently "no plans" for them to perform the song together live.

Tornado trauma

Faltskog's trip to the UK may come as a surprise to some seasoned Abba-watchers. During the band's heyday, she had a rule that she would never leave home for more than two weeks at a time, so she wouldn't be separated from her children (both born in the midst of Abbamania).

A nervous flyer, she arranged to travel separately from Ulvaeus for the sake of the children, in case anything should happen to either of them in mid-air.

Agnetha Faltskog says an Abba reunion is unlikely ever to happen

Then, towards the end of Abba's 1979 US tour, the band had a quick turnaround between gigs in New York and Boston.

Faltskog boarded a chartered jet, which previously belonged to millionaire aviator Howard Hughes, and flew straight into the middle of a tornado which forced Boston's airfield to close.

Running out of fuel, in a pitch black sky, the pilot performed an emergency landing in Manchester, New Hampshire. The first attempt was aborted at the last minute, pulling up just before the wheels hit the runway. Fortunately, the plane touched down on the second try.

Since then, she has largely avoided flying - even coming to the UK "by bus once" for a promotional trip.

"But nowadays I have started to fly again," she says. "I have gone to a man - a therapist - who taught me to think in another way, a very positive way. It works. It helps, at least."

The 62-year-old says she's looking forward to coming back to the UK, and speaks fondly of Abba's seven-day residency in London's Wembley Arena in 1979.

"People's reaction was fantastic on Dancing Queen," she says. "And otherwise, it was very nice with Thank You For The Music."

She enjoys the memories of Abba, and has donated costumes and memorabilia to the Abba Museum which will open in Sweden in May ("it is very strange to have a museum in your honour!"), but cannot see the band reforming.

"It was such a long time ago, and we are getting older, and we have our different lives," she says.

For now, she is concentrating on the new record - one she thought she might never make, and one which could be her last.

"I think to look in the future, to plan another one, it's not realistic right now. But I don't close any doors. I'm very open for what comes up. At the moment, we are so happy with this one. I really hope people will like it as much as we do."

Agnetha's single When You Really Love Someone is out now. Her album, A, follows later this year.

Agnetha Faltskog Single Update

Abba’s Agnetha Faltskog New Song Sample Surfaces LISTEN

 

by Paul Cashmere on March 9, 2013

 

Abba star Agnetha Faltskog is about to return with her first new song in eight years. A sample of the song has surfaced online.

 

 

‘When You Really Loved Someone’ was written by Jorgen Elofsson, who also wrote ‘What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)’ for Kelly Clarkson, ‘You Drive Me Crazy’ for Britney Spears and Guy Sebastian’s first single ‘Angels Bought Me Here’.
Agnetha’s last album was ‘My Colouring Book’ in 2004. Her last Abba album was ‘The Visitors’ in 1981.

Universal Music is yet to confirm a release date for the album although a 30 second sample of ‘When You Really Loved Someone’ has surfaced on Allmusic.com.
You can listen to a sample of the song at Allmusic.com.
Noise11.com contacted Universal and was told that the album was on their schedule for a TBA (to be announced) release date but that it has since been removed. It is currently unknown at this stage why the album has been taken off Universal’s upcoming release schedule or when it will resurface.

Watch this space…

Agnetha Faltskog - New Single Preview !!! When You Really Loved Someone

'When You Really Loved Someone'

 

Listen to a preview here:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/when-you-really-loved-someone-mw0002500241

Real or not real ??

 

 

Agnetha Faltskog New Single - When You Really Loved Someone

Amazon has now removed the listing for this single.

As there has been no official information on this release, it would appear to have been inaccurate.

A shame - although we still know there is an actual album coming which is the main thing :)

The issue may be that Amazon listed it too early - so watch this space for further details !

Agnetha Faltskog New Single - When You Really Loved Someone

 

Release Date: March 11, 2013

Label: Verve

Copyright: (C) 2013 Universal International Music B.V.

http://www.amazon.com/When-You-Really-Loved-Someone/dp/B00BN03AYE

Please be aware there is much skepticism in the fan community about this listing on Amazon.
There is no other information at this point to verify this news.

I will post more information as it becomes available :)