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Stikkan Andersson is born in Mariestad, Sweden. He will find international success as Stig Andersson, manager of Abba.
Benny Andersson is born in Stockholm, Sweden. He will find fame as a songwriter, vocalist and keyboard player with Abba.
Aspiring pop singer Agnetha Faltskog makes her first tv appearance on the programme Studio 8 in Sweden, Europe. On this day, she also meets Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who is performing her debut single, En Ledig Dag, on the same show. The two women will later work together as members of Abba.
Jag Var Sa Kar (I Was So In Love) by Agnetha Faltskog reaches No1 in the Pop Singles Chart in Sweden, Europe. Agnetha will find greater international success as a member of Abba.
Swedish pop stars Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus get married. They will begin working on each others recordings and will, in due course, form the globally successful group 
Swedish pop group Bjorn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid record Contemplation for Polar Music. The track is never used but the quartet will eventually find fame as Abba.Bjorn And Benny, Agnetha And Anni-Frid release a new single, He Is Your Brother/Santa Rosa, in Sweden on Polar Records. They will find greater success after changing their name to Abba.
Bjorn And Benny, Agnetha And Anni-Frid release a new single, He Is Your Brother/Santa Rosa, in Sweden on Polar Records. They will find greater success after changing their name to Abba.
Abba enter the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Dancing Queen, which will peak at No1.
On their first world tour, 
On their first world tour, 
After living together for nine years, Benni and Anni-Frid of Abba get married in a quiet ceremony at their local church. The witnesses are their house-keeper and a church warden.
Abba begin their 52-date Ab ba : The Tour tour, with a show at Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.On their first North American tour, Abba play at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On their first North American tour, Abba play at The Active Center, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
On their first North American tour, Abba play at The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
During a flight from New York City, USA, to Boston, Massachusetts, the plane carrying Abba is subjected to extreme weather conditions and is unable to land for an extended period. Abba's Agnetha Faltskog is so distressed by this experience that the band decides to cancel its final American concert, which had been scheduled for Washington DC.
Abba play the second of two nights at Bingley Hall, Stafford, England, UK, Europe.
On their Ab ba : The Tour tour, Abba play their final live concert together, on the second of two nights at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Abba complete recording of their seventh album Super Trouper, at Polar Music Studios, Sweden, Europe.Abba deliver their seventh UK No1 album - The Visitors, which is also their eighth and final studio album. It is one of the first records to have been recorded and mixed digitally.
The Visitors by Abba is the new UK No1 album and, on the same day, it is announced in the UK rock press that all-girl punk band The Slits has split up.
Agnetha Faltskog, better known as the blonde one from
Actor Yul Brynner dies, aged 65 of lung cancer, in New York City, USA. Although nominally an actor, he is best remembered for his role as King Mongkut in the musical The King And I, both on stage and in the cinema. Songs which drew inspiration from Brynner include One Night In Bangkok from the 1984 muscal Chess (written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA), and the 1987 album track, Yul Brynner Was A Skinhead, by comedy-punk rockers Toy Dolls.
The first No1 single of the new millennium in the United Kingdom is I Have A Dream by Westlife. The song is a cover version of a 1979 hit by ABBA.
The contents of Polar Studios, where Abba recorded their hits, are sold at auction in Frihamnen, Malmo, Sweden, Europe. The studio was closed down because the rent had more than doubled.
For the first time in twenty years, all four members of 
Rock saxophonist Raf Ravenscroft dies at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Devon, UK, aged sixty following a heart attack. He was best-known for playing the sax break in Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit Baker Street, but also worked with many other top-flight musicians including Marvin Gaye, Daft Punk, Pink Floyd and Abba.
Abba Monopoly, an Abba-oriented version of the popular board game, is made available to buy via the band's website.Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, formerly of Abba, attend a birthday party for their lifelong business associate Thomas Johansson.
Gerry Stickells, a renowned tour manager who worked mostly with Jimi Hendrix and Queen, plus a star-studded cadre of other artists, including Paul McCartney, Elton John, Abba, Fleetwood Mac, Bette Midler and Madonna, dies from complications of a brain tumour, aged 76, at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA.1931 |
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