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ABBA sponsors a children’s home in Africa

ABBA sponsors a children’s home in Africa

by on 07 May, 2012 in ABBA News

ABBA are going to sponsor the construction of a house in the newly constructed SOS Children’s Village Bossangoa, Central African Republic built in honour of Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren.

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ABBA – The Essential Collection (Updated 07 May 2012 – delay for all regions except Germany)

ABBA – The Essential Collection (Updated 07 May 2012 – delay for all regions except Germany)

by on 06 Apr, 2012 in ABBA News

The Essential Collection – a brand new ABBA hits collection will be released on 21 May 2012. Billed as including “all the hits and more on 2 CDs and 1 DVD” it comes in three versions.

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Listen to From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel as played on BBC Radio 2

by on 02 Apr, 2012 in ABBA News

Zoe Ball got an exclusive when standing in on The Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2 this morning with the first airing of ABBA’s From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel. For those that can access the BBC iPlayer, you can find the programme here for the next 7 days…

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Win a signed copy of ABBA – The Visitors Deluxe Edition (Updated with winner!)

by on 24 Mar, 2012 in ABBA News

All you need to do to win a signed (by Benny and Björn) copy of the upcoming release of The Visitors Deluxe Edition is ‘Follow’ icethesite on Twitter or ‘Like’ icethesite on Facebook. If you already do so, you’ve already entered! The Visitors Deluxe Edition is a very special release. Not only is the original [...]

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ABBA poster gone from Arlanda Airport, Stockholm

by on 06 Mar, 2012 in ABBA News, Benny News

ABBA’s poster proclaiming “Welcome to our hometown” has been removed from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport arrivals hall at the request of Benny Andersson. As followers of icethesite will recall, Benny vehemently objected to a proposed redevelopment of the Slussen area of Stockholm. He rallied friends and supporters ahead of a vote by the city council in order to help try and [...]

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Information on ABBA’s unreleased track and news of a new icethesite competition

by on 25 Feb, 2012 in ABBA News

ABBA’s The Visitors Deluxe Edition CD features ‘From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel’ a nine minute demo medley which traces the evolution of ‘Like An Angel Passing Through My Room’, the closing track on The Visitors.

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From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel – Benny comments on the ABBA track

by on 05 Feb, 2012 in ABBA News, Benny News

In a wider piece about Helsinki’s Kristina från Duvemåla production, Benny appears to downplay some of the media frenzy accompanying news of an ABBA demo medley. Björn and Benny in Helsinki. Photo: Christian Westerback Benny told Finnish news outlet Helsingin Sanomat that From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel the “previously unreleased” ABBA track [...]

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ABBA – The Visitors Deluxe Edition CD with previously unreleased demo medley

by on 25 Jan, 2012 in ABBA News

Wonderful news! ABBA’s last studio album The Visitors is to receive the ‘Deluxe Edition’ CD treatment. As with previous releases in the Deluxe Edition series, this version of ABBA’s final album offers a DVD of archive material along with CD bonus tracks – including the demo medley ‘From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel’, the first previously unreleased ABBA recordings since 1994!

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