By Cotton Ward
ABBA was the biggest name in music in Australia from 1975 to 1978.
By March 1977 the Australian market was saturated with one in three Australian households owning an ABBA record.
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ABBA Australian tour history
An excerpt from an article I wrote in the 1980s about instruments ABBA hired for the concert.
During their March 1977 Australian tour, ABBA’s entourage was 40 musicians and 60 film crew who were making ABBA – The Movie. Scott Morgan of Billy Hyde Stage Systems, Sydney, said ABBA hired two Arbiter Auto-Tune drum kits for the Sydney concert.
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Mandy Rollins obituary
ABBA fan club float 1996 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
I’m on the float, brief glimpses, with short hair, usually looking away from the camera.
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The Best of James Herriot
Lots of gentle reminiscing about the days of old, farming in Yorkshire. It’s about a vet in the 1940s (there was a TV series, All Creatures Great and Small.) When big draught horses were used before tractors, and it was pre-antibiotics. Also, his time spent serving inthe RAF during WWII. Many colour photos and line drawings. Amazing.
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