New ABBA Collection Item - Second Agnetha Vinyl Banner

I love this one dedicated to 'When You Really Loved Someone'
Includes the lyrics

This will look amazing up on the wall :)

 

 

New ABBA Collection Item - Agnetha Picture Disc

I love it !!!

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

Agnetha 'When You Really Loved Someone' - New ABBA Collection Item

My first 'arrival' from the Agnetha releases - the CD single of 'When You Really Loved Someone'

 

Agnetha Faltakog CD, LP, Singles - New Releases 2013

Now just a reminder of what is available to buy right now.
Don't forget her album will be released on 10 May 2013 - be sure to grab a copy !
The CD album will be readily available from most music stores.
For the CD single and vinyls, check the links below.

'A' CD Album

 

'A' Vinyl LP

 

 

'When You Really Loved Someone' Exclusive Limited Edition CD Single and 7" Picture Disc
 

 

'The One Who Loves You Now' Itunes MP3 Germany & Austria

 

http://www.bengans.se/Product.aspx?skivkod=574618&section=music

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/search?bklist=icat%2C4%2Cshop%2Cartist%2Cagnetha&categories=agnetha&q=Agnetha+F%E4ltskog

http://www.abbasite.com/store/

http://www.abbafanclubshop.nl/

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

What a beauty !

'When You Really Loved Someone' Limited edition UK single. Released on 6th May is now available to pre-order from the Universal Store:

 http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/singles/agnetha-f+228ltskog-when-you-really-loved-someone-cd/invt/0602537367931

 Be Quick!

Agnetha Faltskog 'A' - Snippets Of Every Song - Offical Site

On the Official Agnetha website, they have now added a player with snippets of each song from album !

Check it out here:

http://www.agnetha.com/music/

Agnetha: Behind The Scenes Video 2

Video: Behind the Scenes with Agnetha at Stockholm Concert Hall Studio.

 

This clip is taken from a small studio in the Stockholm Concert Hall where we recorded all the strings together with Stockholm Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Agnetha sits in between technician Lasse Nilsson (left) and producer/arranger Peter Nordahl (right). Jörgen Elofsson is standing behind. Filmed by Myrra Malmberg.

Non Stop ABBA On Waterloo Radio

 

 

This is an internet radio station that plays ABBA / Pre-ABBA / Post ABBA / ABBA Related non stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Including Agnetha's beautiful new songs.

Based in the UK, and totally fabulous !!
Anytime you want an ABBA fix, just tune in.

Check them out on Facebook - they need followers to keep this awesome station going:

https://www.facebook.com/waterlooradio?ref=stream&hc_location=stream

Check the station out here and be sure to add it to your favourites:

http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/waterloo-radio/index

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 Documentary & DVD !

"This week Agnetha has recorded a TV special in Stockholm to support the release of ' A' The filmcrew from th BBC flew over to Stockholm to meet up with a stunning looking Agnetha.

The special is to be broadcasted in May and will be included in an upcoming ultimate DVD release 'Ultimately A'."

http://www.agnetha.com/news/bbc-behind-the-scenes/

 

 

Agnetha Faltskog On 'Today Tonight' In Australia - Video

ABBA comeback

 

http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/video/watch/9b2786a2-8fd2-37f3-8dbb-73dad3d921fb/abba-comeback/

 

April 18, 2013, 6:18 pm Lynda Kinkade Today Tonight

A member of the biggest pop group since the Beatles is making a comeback after turning her back on fame and fortune for a life of solitude.

 

Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida are four of the most successful singers of our time and in Australia they were bigger than the Beatles.
ABBA mania hit Melbourne's Myer Music Bowl; their success here helping launch their worldwide fame and fortune.
According to music commentator Glen A. Baker ABBA were 'the Beatles of the 70's'.

 

"There is no question about it and Australia played a huge role in it because Australia is where ABBA really broke and it was like this tsunami. They had five consecutive number one’s in Australia before the Americans largely had even like heard of them," said Baker.
The Swedish super-troupers stormed to the top of the charts time and time again.
Agnetha Faltskog was the quiet one; she was the pretty blonde with the crystal clear voice stood out in more ways than one.
"She was immensely talented. In fact, of the four who were all stars in their own right, she was the biggest star of all," Baker said.

 

When ABBA broke up in 1982, not even money could bring her and the band back together - $1 billion of it was offered and rejected by Faltskog.
The most elusive member who sang about Friday nights and the lights being low became a recluse; shunning the limelight.
"She was luminous blonde, beautiful and charismatic, but obviously a troubled soul. She felt uncomfortable about the adulation and fame," Baker said.
"I sort of went from a luxury suite to a dishpan and it was so nice," Faltskog said in an interview with Swedish Television.
Her white platform boots were packed away, along with her gold records.
"I've never been that kind of person to put up gold records and things on my wall. I'm a bit modest, I don't like putting these things on display," she said.

 

Faltskog described how she'd tried to live an ordinary life because the hysteria was too much.
"I get very anxious," she said.
Now the blonde is back. Despite saying she'd never sing again, the 62-year-old could not resist.
She was approached by a Grammy Award winning song-writer responsible for hits by Britney Spears, Céline Dion and Kelly Clarkson.
Faltskog now has a new single.
The album is entitled A while the other songs are yet to be released.
"I think it's so cool. One of the songs I've written myself and I thought it was going to be a lullaby for children but it didn't turn out like that," Faltskog said.
Music historian Bill Pennell believes the fans will be waiting to hear Faltskog's new single.
"It must be an exciting time for Agnetha because she hasn't done anything like this for a long time. She did a covers album in 2004 but that sort of got released almost in secret but this one I think will have a lot of attention. It's a really classy song and good luck to her for doing something now that she can probably do something without the pressure of being part of ABBA," Pennell added.
Fans Downunder were first to really embrace them and the love was mutual. Despite being discovered on Eurovision the Scandinavian pop quartet had many flops in the 18 months that followed, barely scrapping into the charts.
It was Australia that helped put the back on the road to success. Without the countdown, Mama Mia would not have been a single, let alone a highly successful musical and film. An ABBA special shown in Australia out-rated the landing on the moon.
Anticipated by millions of ABBA fans worldwide, Faltskog's brand new material will be snapped up on release by Michael Young.
"I've heard the single, I've seen the video for the single and I would describe it as a classy song, a classy production, a classy video. She looks amazing. Probably the best she's looked in a very, very long time. Her stylist is brilliant," Young said.
The ABBA fanatic started the ABBA fan club in Australia.
"I wrote to Sweden and got permission and away it went. They started sending me beautiful posters and records when they were released and all that sort of thing, so that was a great privilege," Young said.
“Now we have Agnetha releasing a new album which is just really exciting to get something new from any of them. But the person we least expect it from is Agnetha because she tends to keep to herself."
The last time Faltskog sang so passionately about love or rather lost love was shortly after her divorced Bjorn.
Faltskog’s new album is due to be released next month.

 

 

Agnetha Faltskog's New Album On Vinyl LP Too !

 

This fabulous new album will also be available on Vinyl LP !

How wonderful :)

 

You can pre-order this now at the ABBA Fanclub Shop for $38.00US

 

http://www.abbafanclubshop.com/cgi-bin/user/show_article.pl?item=400








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/

 

 

New Agnetha Faltskog Article

Abba's Agnetha Faltskog: Could the girl with the golden hair get lucky at last?

Life’s been hard for Agnetha Faltskog since Abba, but the super trouper is taking a chance with a comeback album

By William Langley

7:00AM GMT 17 Mar 2013

The details of Agnetha Fältskog’s return to pop remain sketchy, although it is safe to assume that the rarely-spotted ex-Abba singer has given more thought to her comeback than she did to joining the business in the first place.

Back in the good old glam-rock days when Agnetha was pumping her knees in hotpants and platform boots, it wasn’t immediately obvious that she had been a musical prodigy. At the age of three, she had learned the harpsicord, and by seven was composing complex piano pieces. Then, one night at a small town concert in Sweden, she met a hairy guitarist called Björn Ulvaeus, joined his band, married him, and became a world famous wreck.

Agnetha’s long, troubled stint as a pop recluse has, over the years, become as much a subject of fascination as her work with Abba. Rumours of a comeback have circulated for years, but last week brought confirmation that a new album will be released in May. Called simply 'A’, it will feature ten tracks, including a duet with Take That’s Gary Barlow, and arrives at a time when her old outfit – the band the pop purists of the 1970s most liked to snigger at – is bigger than ever.

“I have been so lucky, I am the girl with golden hair,” Agnetha, 63, sang in 'Thank You for the Music’. Even if the audiences believed it, she knew it wasn’t true. Agnetha had always felt herself to be the odd one out in Abba. She lacked the confidence and the vigour of the others, her English was less fluent, her poise less assured, and when the band became a global phenomenon in the mid-Seventies she felt unable to establish a distinct personality.

While the other members, Björn, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad revelled in the fan worship and the perks of fame, Agnetha yearned only to be home. “I’m a country bumpkin,” she told her (ex) friend and biographer, Brita Ahman. “I’m not a showgirl. The others like to party. I like to be by myself.” Performing in public filled her with dread, and although she understood the commercial drawing power of her leggy figure and blonde-bombshell looks, she was never comfortable as a sex symbol.

Her stage fright reached the point that she was unable to perform without whisky. What the average rock star accepted as adulation, she saw as something close to intimidation. “No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience,” she told Ahman, “can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace.”

Then there was the sheer bad luck. In 1979, during a tour of the US, the group’s private jet flew into a violent thunderstorm while approaching Boston. Although the plane landed safely Agnetha developed a morbid fear of flying, and afterwards travelled whenever possible by road. This provided only temporary relief, for in 1983 she was on a coach which crashed outside Stockholm, hurling her through a window and into a frozen ditch. She has rarely travelled anywhere since. When Mamma Mia!, the blockbuster Abba musical, premiered in London in 1999, she was the only member of the group not to be present.

For the last 25 years, her home has been a secluded lakeside farmstead on Ekerö, eight miles from Stockholm, one of the loveliest of the thousands of islands around the Swedish capital. Not that it has provided much solace to Agnetha. Fans regularly turned up her gates. Sometimes she would come out, sign a few autographs and ask them to leave. Then came the strange case of the man who wouldn’t go away.

Agnetha’s love life has never been simple. Her marriage to Björn, with whom she has two children, ended in 1979, by which time both of them were seeing psychiatrists. Ulvaeus later slipped into the arms of Lena Källersjö, an advertising executive to whom he remains happily married. Agnetha had no such luck. She fell first for a Swedish ice hockey star, then for a fashion designer, and later for her marriage guidance counsellor. In 1990, she married Tomas Sonnenfeld, a Stockholm doctor, but the union lasted barely two years.

Into the void stumbled the bizarre figure of Gert van der Graaf, a bespectacled Dutch factory worker. Abba fans first became aware of his existence in 2003 when Agnetha complained to the police that she was being stalked by a maniac, and was in “fear of my life”.
Officers raided a rickety wooden cabin on the shores of Ekerö, in which they found 37-year-old van der Graaf, a decomposing turtle and thousands of mementoes of Agnetha’s career. The Dutchman was charged with threatening behaviour, but in a spirited court defence produced a letter from the singer suggesting their relationship was rather more than that of stalker and victim. It quickly emerged that the pair had enjoyed a full-blown romance and had been on holiday together only weeks before Agnetha called in the police.

Sweden was outraged. Brita Ahman says it was the end of their friendship. “When she told me about it, I was extremely shocked,” recalls Ms Ahman. “I warned her and said it could be dangerous. Instead she continued to encourage him. I think it was the point at which many people simply gave up on her.”

Those who remain close to Agnetha say she never had the aptitude for stardom. That it might have been better if she had stayed in Jönköping, the small town in southern Sweden where she was brought up, the daughter of a department store manager, and become the classical musician she seemed destined to be.

Yet Abba would never have reached the same heights without her. Björn and Benny created those beautifully polished pop tunes, Anni-Frid provided the funk, but it was Agnetha’s pure voice and arresting beauty that made the group both eye-catching and irresistible to the ear. No one knows how her comeback will unfold, but when we see her again we can at least say a proper thank you for the music.

Agnetha Fältskog's new album, 'A', is released on May 13

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9933274/Abbas-Agnetha-Faltskog-Could-the-girl-with-the-golden-hair-get-lucky-at-last.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Agnetha Fältskog Interview by Skavlan - Full Clip

This is the full interview with Agnetha on Skavlan. In Swedish of course, but still fabulous to watch :)

 

 

 

Agnetha Faltskog Radio Interview With Lotta Brome

Here is the English translation - in summary - of the interview Anna did recently with Lotta Brome in Sweden.

 

Exclusive Interview with Swedish Radio

Abba Agnetha: "I've taken singing lessons"

 

 

This is the first newly written material by Agnetha in 25 years, and will also include a song she wrote herself.
The rest of the song has been written by Jörgen Elofsson, the man behind huge hits for Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys for example.
In an exclusive interview with Swedish Radio's P4 Extra programme, Agnetha explained how the project came about.
"It was a process, you could say. Firstly I was contacted by Jörgen Elofsson and Peter Nordahl and they wanted to play some songs for me. And I thought that that sounded really nice, I've never closed any doors and I wanted to listen to the songs, I thought it'd be fun. And then I thought that, wow, the songs are really good, how will I be able to say no to this?
So then I said ok, they sound fantastic, but how will I be able to interpret these songs in a good way? What if my voice sounds old? 'No, we don't think so at all', they said. But I wasn't at all sure. When you haven't sung for a while your voice gets almost rusty, you feel that you haven't kept that muscle working. "
Agnetha told presenter Lotta Bromé she even took singing lessons to freshen up her vocal chords.

"Two, actually. Then I didn't need any more. It might sound a bit cocky, but once I learnt how to breathe properly again I felt, no, this might work. And then it started sounding better and better."
One of the tracks on the album was written by Agnetha herself. She wrote a lot of songs before the Abba years, but since then had left songwriting behind her. But she decided to sit back at the piano just this once.
"Yes, exactly", she told Lotta Bromé. "I felt that this was an album with Jörgen's songs, at least nine of them, and he writes together with others too, but I thought it'd be fun to have one song on there. And then I started to write songs as well and that started to work well, I managed to squeeze a song out, and it will actually be the last song on the album. It's called "I keep them on the floor beside my bed". A long title."
The media image of Agnetha is of some kind of recluse, almost the Greta Garbo of pop, but that is an image she resents.

"I'm very down to earth, I think I'm the same person now as I was when I first went into a studio to record my first song when I was just 17 years old. I'm the same, but I have a load of life experience now. A lot of experience, and you get quite hardened in this industry, but you never get free from.... you want to do a good job the whole time, the best. So I have high expectations on myself. But to go from that to say that I'm mysterious, that's been created by the media.
I actually get quite hurt by it actually, it's something that has sprung up along the way, because of certain things. Maybe because I withdrew for a little while, but there are periods in your life when you have to take care of yourself, and things happen and you have to be alone and have things quiet around you for a while."

Agnetha has also suffered from a fear of flying for years, following a traumatic experience during one of the ABBA tours, but now she says that she has learnt to deal with it, somewhat.
"Well, I'm not out flying all the time, but I've had some therapy and learnt to think in a different way. That helps a bit, but I never think I'll be free of it. I've spoken to the therapist to find out what my hang-up is. I'll never sit there and be thinking there is nothing to worry about, I do have worries and fears. But I have learnt how to deal with it to some extent now, so I can deal with a flight of about 3 1/2 hours. But I don't fly several times a year, or once a month, I make some trips every now and then when I feel that I can cope with it."

But those hoping to see Agnetha appear at the new Abba Museum may be disappointed, she is booked for promotional appearances in London at the same time as the museum opens. And she also says that she has left the days of live performances behind her, so there will be no performing at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö either, but she will watch it, she adds. She says she saw the Swedish contest at the weekend, and thought that the right song won.
"I thought it was fantastic", she told Lotta Bromé, "I'm so impressed by these young artists today who can deal with all the pressure, and that they can dance so well as well. I thought the winning song was fantastic, a really talented guy. I thought there were a lot of good songs there. It's a fantastic competition."

And the obligatory question. Will ABBA ever reform?
"I don't think it's going to happen. It doesn't feel like any of us are particularly tempted to do it, because we all have our own lives now and it was such a long time ago. We have to deal with that question all the time, but we'll take it easy and see what the future holds. You never know what might happen. But I think there is a only a very very small chance that we'll do anything together again."

Reporter: Lotta Bromé, P4 Extra.
Transcription: Kris Boswell, Radio Sweden

Agnetha Faltskog 'A' .. Order The CD Now !

Here is a link for fellow Aussies to pre-order Anna's CD - a physical CD.

A bargain basement price too - $13.95

 

 

http://www.wowhd.com.au/CD/agnetha-faltskog-a/dp/32649305#bc=daf7

 

Check out my new page dedicated to this new album on my website ABBAfanatic:

http://www.abbafanatic.com/#/agnetha-a/4574745527

Agnetha Faltskog on Skavlan TV Show - Pictures !

Agnetha on Skavlan Talk Show in Sweden on 13 March 2013.

This is the recording of the show to be aired on 14 March.

The show claims to be one of Europe's largest talk shows, offering in-depth and earnest interviews with some of the world's most famous politicians, musicians, stars, etc.

 

 

Agnetha New TV Interview - Italy - In English !

Click the link to watch this fabulous new interview with Agnetha on Corriere TV in Italy !

 

Interview is in English with Italian subtitles :)

 

http://video.corriere.it/ritorno-agnetha-scordatevi-abba/24fad104-8b46-11e2-b7df-bc394f2fb2ae

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