Hot on the heels of the well-received Deluxe Edition of The Visitors, November 2012 will see another release in the ABBA Deluxe Edition series. This time the 1975 album simply entitled ABBA, featuring classic hits such as \u2018Mamma Mia\u2019, \u2018SOS\u2019 and \u2018I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do\u2019, gets the Deluxe treatment.<\/p>\n
The first disc in this 2-disc package is a CD, which features the original album plus three bonus tracks, all of which have been remastered especially for this release. The second disc is a DVD, featuring 60 minutes of previously unreleased television performances, including the complete 1976 television special ABBA In Australia \u2013 the export version of the famous The Best Of ABBA special, which had higher viewer ratings in Australia than the moon landing! 6 of the 12 songs in the special are performances of tracks from the ABBA album. In addition, there are three songs from the 1975 television special Made In Sweden \u2013 For Export, along with two great performances from the BBC archives: \u2018SOS\u2019 on Seaside Special, first broadcast in 1975, and \u2018Mamma Mia\u2019 on Top Of The Pops (1976). To round off the DVD there are two vintage television commercials, one for the Australian hits album The Best Of ABBA (along with the other albums released by ABBA in Australia up to that point) and the other for ABBA\u2019s Greatest Hits album.<\/p>\n
The package also includes a 24-page booklet featuring an extensive essay on the making of the album, for which ABBA\u2019s Benny Andersson and Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus have contributed fresh insights and stories.
\nIn 1974 ABBA leapt into the world\u2019s consciousness with their Eurovision-winning smash hit, Waterloo. They never looked back and the group\u2019s wholesome image and superbly crafted, often buoyant, catchy pop songs made ABBA international stars. Nelson Mandela famously declared ABBA his favourite pop group and they even eclipsed the car manufacturers Volvo as Sweden\u2019s largest earners of foreign currency during 1982. They are easily one of the most commercially successful groups of all time and it is their \u2018Best Ofs\u2019 and \u2018Greatest Hits\u2019 collections that have been the focus of more recent decades, starting with the release of ABBA Gold, which topped the charts around the world in the early 1990s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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