People dressed in costumes take part in a silent disco event outside the Brighton Dome, in Brighton, England, Saturday, April 6, 2024. Fans are celebrating 50 years since ABBA won its first big battle ...

Fans of the Swedish supergroup ABBA gathered Saturday in England, Sweden and elsewhere to celebrate the hit song "Waterloo" on the 50th anniversary of its victory at the annual Eurovision Song Contest ...

The world learned ABBA’s name when the Swedish pop group performed their song “Waterloo” in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Now the musicians are reissuing their iconic album of the same name this ...

A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my ...

ABBA might be one of the best-known bands in the world, but it wasn’t always that way. When the band scored one of Eurovision’s iconic moments with their hit single Waterloo in 1974, they initially ...

Last Saturday, television viewers and juries from 31 countries selected Waterloo as the all-time favorite Eurovision Song Contest entry. ABBA's victory didn't remain unnoticed in the Belgian village ...

As Abba release Voyage, their ninth studio album, see how the Guardian and Observer reviewed them in their pomp, and beyond By Clive James The Observer, 14 April 1974 The mood for the Eurovision song ...