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The ABBA concert stage in Nykøbing Falster! Photo: Søren Peter Nielsen The 1975 ABBA concert stage in Nykøbing Falster Hallerne  as it looks in 2024. Photo: Nykøbing Falster Hallerne In 1975, ABBA performed in smaller venues, including a concert at the local sports center in Nykøbing Falster. My father, Per, was lucky to sign a contract for an ABBA concert before they became very popular, says Pernille Rasmussen.  Søren Peter Nielsen, a resident of Nykøbing Falster, attended the concert and—luckily for us—brought his camera along. Below, you’ll find some very rare photos from this event. Sound engineer Claes af Geijerstam clearly remembers the stage setup in Nykøbing Falster. He explains that the HAGSTRÖM PA (visible in the first photo to the right) was arranged so that the instruments had their own speakers while the vocals had a separate set. This meant that no bass or bass drum was included in the vocal speakers, resulting in a very clean sound. Claes remarked that the "ABB...

On January 15th 1975 ABBA played a succesfull concert in Holstebrohallen for 800 people. The concert was organised by Ernst Trillingsgaard. The capacity in Holstebrohallen was 3000 people, but at that time ABBA was almost unkown.  Ernst Trillingsgaard remember, that Jerry Ritz from ABBA´s record company i Denmark called him, and asked if he should try to get ABBA to Denmark and Ernst Trillingsgaard agreed and booked a concert in Holstebro.. Thomas Johansson from EMA Telstar produced this and all other ABBA tours, and Thomas also accompanied ABBA on several of their early promotion trips. When Thomas Johansson after the concert in Holstebro called Ernst Trillingsgaard, and asked if he would like to have dinner with ABBA in the Restaurant Laksen, Trillingsgaard refused. He told Thomas Johansson that he was going to have a beer with two journalists from the local press instead. A few months later ABBA was a woldwide success, but at the time for the concert in Holstebro they were unkno...

06/04/2024 It’s slightly dizzying and deeply humbling to think that millions of you who saw us for the first time in the Eurovision final 1974 have passed our music on not only to one generation, but to several. We see evidence of that every time one of us visits ABBA Voyage in London and it’s because of this we can celebrate the 50th Anniversary of that event in the knowledge that our songs still resonate around the world. It’s difficult to comprehend that 50 years have gone by since the four of us waited backstage for the verdicts of all the juries around Europe at the Dome in Brighton. So what were our dreams during those suspenseful moments or in the chaos in the aftermath of the victory we had secured with the smallest margin in Eurovision history? Four different dreams, no doubt, but whatever they were, however grand, reality has surpassed them, that’s for sure. Many of you were there from the very start and have followed us ever since - for over half a century! Music you discove...

Concerts in 1966 Sunday March 12th 1966 Hep Stars played a concert in Club Hot Circle at Postgården in Ringsted.  The 19 year old Benny Andersson played too in Ringsted. 

Abba performed their songs SOS and So Long and also Bent Fabrics tune Alley Cat on danish television (Danmarks Radio) June 21st, 1975. The show was hosted by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (Bent Fabric) and can be seen here .

This concert took place in Idrættens Hus in Vejle and was organised by impresario Steen Wittrock from Odense. Support group and live band was The Beatmakers. - We only sold about 800 tickets for this concert, which was rather disappointing, Steen Wittrock recalls. Not long after I organized a concert with Svenne and Lotta, where we sold twice as many tickets! Svenne Hedlund was a singer in the band Hep Stars together with, among others, Benny Andersson, who was later part of ABBA. - ABBA did a good concert in Vejle, but the sales were disappointing, Wittrock recalls. In connection with the concert in Vejle ABBA stayed at Hotel Australia a spectacular and famous hotel in Vejle. The local newspaper Vejle Amts Folkeblad wrote: "Huge success for ABBA. With an international class show, the Swedish group takes the audience by storm." Wittrock had established himself in the industry in the 1970s and got a number of Swedish and Norwegian artists in his stable In 1974 he opened an of...

 Here are some items from my own collection of ABBA memorabilia: