DONNA SUMMER et ABBA ... les héros du SUMMER OF DISCO de la chaine ARTE ! ... sinon .. rien de neuf concernant OLIVIA .. oubliée ..
jeudi 16 juillet 2026
samedi 13 juin 2026
mardi 19 mai 2026
CHARTS
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Semaine du 19 mai 1979, l'album TOTALLY HOT reprend 5 petites places dans le BILLBOARD 200 ! ONJ est 37ème ! L'album chute sur la 15ème place du HOT COUNTRY LPS.
Le single DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT se hisse, lui, à la 18ème place du BILLBOARD HOT100 .
mercredi 18 février 2026
MUSIC STORY
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C'est l'anniversaire de John Travolta en ce 18 février ! Retour sur un titre extrait de la bande originale de "Grease" dans le Music Story de Pat Angeli !
ABBA présente le 18 mars prochain la collection ultime des meilleurs albums. Faisant ses débuts mondiaux avec « Waterloo », ABBA a ensuite livré une succession de tubes historiques dont « Dancing Queen », « S.O.S. », « Mamma Mia », « Gimme ! » et « Chiquitita ».
lundi 12 janvier 2026
mardi 16 septembre 2025
SUMMER NIGHTS
Semaine du 16 septembre 1978, le single SUMMER NIGTS fait son apparition dans les charts anglais ! Le single se classe à la 56ème place du TOP75 des meilleures ventes de 45t !
ABBA fait mieux avec son SUMMER NIGHT CITY !
Aux USA, personne ne bouge dans le TOP5 du BILLBOARD HOT100 ... HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOU stagne à la 4ème place et SUMMER NIGHTS en gagne une seule ! TRAVOLTA et ONJ sont donc 7ème !
mardi 8 juillet 2025
HOT100
8 juillet 1978 : Le single YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT est presque N°1 partout dans le monde, le single HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOU fait son entrée dans le classement américain BILLBOARD HOT100 à la 68ème place !!
Cette semaine la, ANDY GIBB, GERRY RAFFERTY et ABBA dominaient ce classement ..
samedi 24 mai 2025
samedi 3 mai 2025
LA PARENTHESE CAREY
EN BREF
Parce que c'est ABBA !!! On célèbre les 50 ans de l'album éponyme du groupe, retrouvez les incontournables "Mamma Mia", "SOS" et "I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
Parce que c'est BARBRA ..
mardi 8 avril 2025
EN MODE PREMIERE
..... DON'T MOVE AWAY .. qu'on a déjà sur le compte de CLIFF RICHARD ...
samedi 11 mai 2024
OLIVIOLOGY MOVIE
Excellent dernier et nouveau chapitre d'Oliviology movie sur la carrière d'ONJ période PHYSICAL LIVE !
Bravo !! c'est un sacré boulot !! Du pur bonheur ! THANK YOU BEAUCOUP !
ABBA DOCUMENTAIRE
mardi 26 mars 2024
SUR MA PLATINE
ONJ en mode "Reine du Mellow" !! Qu'est ce que j'ai pu l'écouter ... très fort cet album.. sur ma platine à 33t ... ado .. ! Et la pochette du disque ; un remède contre la déprime !
SWEDE DREAMS
It’s 50 years since Abba won Eurovision. MARION McMULLEN looks at how their Waterloo sparked international success
- Bristol Post
THE conductor walked out dressed as Napoleon and it took Swedish group Abba just two minutes and 40 seconds to be crowned Eurovision winners with their catchy song Waterloo.
They beat off competition from British entry Olivia Newton-John, who finished fourth with Long Live Love, and contestants like Luxembourg’s Ireen Sheer, Norway’s Anne-Karine Strom and Romuald singing Celui Qui Reste Et Celui Qui S’en Va for Monaco. Gigliola Cinquetti, the 1964 winner, returned to the contest to represent Italy with her song Si and finished second. Irish contestant Tina Reynolds performed Cross Your Heart.
Eurovision was staged in the UK at the Brighton Dome even though Britain had not won the previous year. Winners Luxembourg did not wish to host the event again because of the heavy financial costs so Eurovision headed to Blighty and the seaside.
Britain’s Katie Boyle hosted the event for the fourth and final time 50 years ago on April 6, 1974, and she still holds the record for hosting Eurovision the most times.
Greece took part for the first time with singer Marinella representing the country with Krassi, Thalassa Ke T’agori Mou, which translates as Wine, Sea And My Boyfriend, but France had to withdraw from the contest following the death of French president Georges Pompidou the week leading up to the competition.
Abba – an acronym of the names of band members Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad – had wanted to enter Eurovision a year earlier but their song Ring Ring failed to be chosen to represent Sweden. Their debut album was also called Ring Ring and is their lowest-selling album in the UK.
The band were undeterred though and tried Eurovision again. Waterloo proved a winner going to number one across Europe – although the UK awarded them zero points. On their way to the stage to collect their awards, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus were almost stopped by security guards, who failed to recognise them.
Bjorn recalled of the competition: “We had two songs to choose from. One was more typical of Eurovision at that time. Waterloo was completely different from anything else that had been before but it was also risky. We chose it because it was more fun to perform. Take risks!”
The Eurovision win launched Abba on the international stage and they went on to produce eight studio albums, with numerous hits including Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Dancing Queen, Super Trouper, The Winner Takes It All and Mamma Mia.
They were particularly popular in Australia, where a 1976 TV Special
by the band picked up more viewers than the moon landings. The UK cultivated a similar Abba obsession and a two-date show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1977 attracted 3.5 million ticket applications – enough to fill the venue 580 times.
The quartet held a newspaper competition in the early days to come up with a name and Baba, Alibaba, and FABB were all put forward before the group settled on Abba. There was already a Swedish fish-canning company, founded in 1838, called Abba who were particularly well-known for their pickled herring. After a short negotiation, the firm agreed to let the group use their name providing they did not bring it into disrepute.
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Sweden in May and will mark the 50th anniversary of Abba’s 1974 win.
The band, who have sold more than 400 million albums and singles, were the first competitors from the Nordic country and Sweden has since seen six more wins over the years.
They are one of the most successful acts on the UK Official Charts with nine UK number ones and 19 top 10 hits and their music is still being discovered by new generations of pop lovers. The group’s flamboyant and outlandish costumes, which included capes, flares, catsuits and platform heels, were part of their appeal.
The relationships between the quartet, and the demise of them, are part of the supergroup’s story.
Agnetha and Bjorn, as well as Frida and Benny, were married for a period and announcements of divorce changed the band’s happy image. Abba recorded some new music for the first time in 2018 – they first since they split in 1983.
The Swedish group have already said they will not be taking to the Eurovision stage for the 50th anniversary of their win, but the group’s achievement are still being celebrated.
Their hit album Waterloo is being reissued alongside a limited edition box set of the three vinyl singles originally released in 1974. The singles will also be available as separate picture discs and there is also a 10 inch vinyl disc featuring Waterloo in four different languages.
Brighton Dome is honouring its part in pop history with a plaque outside the building. Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival chief executive Andrew Comben says: “Fifty years since their Eurovision win, Abba’s music continues to bring people together across the world and we’re thrilled that Brighton Dome has played a part in their story.”
mardi 31 octobre 2023
jeudi 31 août 2023
LA PARENTHESE
Un retour très attendu pour les fans du groupe suédois. Agnetha Faltskog, chanteuse d’Abba, a dévoilé jeudi un single en tant qu’artiste solo, deux ans après la sortie d’un dernier album par le légendaire groupe de pop. « J’ai hâte d’entendre ce que vous en pensez ! J’espère qu’il vous plaira autant qu’à moi ! », a écrit l’artiste de 73 ans, sur son compte Instagram.
Très attendu par ses fans, le titre disco-pop « Where Do We Go From Here ? », premier extrait de son futur album « A + », compte près de 50 000 vues. Pour l’occasion, l’artiste a collaboré avec le compositeur suédois Jörgen Elofsson, qui avait déjà écrit pour Céline Dion ou encore Kelly Clarkson.
Dans un autre style .. le tout nouveau single de Kylie Minogue !!! J'adore !
lundi 22 mai 2023
UN JOUR, UNE PHOTO
ARCHIVE
RETRO SHOW
lundi 8 mai 2023
ON THIS DAY
dimanche 2 avril 2023
WEEKS OF APRIL 2, 1977
jeudi 23 mars 2023
Now Yearbook ’78
C'est HOPELESSLY DEVOTED TO YOU qui a été choisie pour illustrer l'annuaire de l'année 1978 !
Cherry Pop réédite le premier album de Sheena Easton « Take My Time »
lundi 19 décembre 2022
SAD FAREWELLS
Lu dans la dernière édition du HELLO magazine !! Merci Kay !
L'HOMMAGE DE CLIFF RICHARD






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