The more eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that a number of the last posts have been written by someone called “Anne”. I am delighted to say that after running icethesite single-handedly for 11 years and after contributing well over 1500 stories, Anne is joining me to help share the load.
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icethesite – an update!
The last few years in particular on icethesite have been pretty manic in terms of keeping up with everything and so I have been taking it a bit easy in terms of updating the main site over the last few months. It wasn’t planned…it just sort of happened…
ABBA UK TV roundup
I Know Him So Well for Comic Relief, ABBA on BBC Four’s Top of the Pops retrospective and the first showing for Mamma Mia! on UK network TV.
Commenting on icethesite just got better
Posts on icethesite have had over 5,700 comments since commenting was first introduced – I hope these changes will mean we’ll be at 6,000 in no time!
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The Day Before You Came takes it all
Well, what a great time I’ve had adding up the votes for songs for a hypothetical Benny Andersson instrumental album! Have no idea what I’m talking about? Missed the original concept? Here’s the post that started it. I would like to say a huge, huge thank you to everyone who responded. I know many of [...]
Hypothetical Benny Andersson instrumental album
There is quite a feeling among ABBA fans that a Benny Andersson solo project, featuring the great man himself on piano revisiting past recordings, would be an absolutely wonderful album to own. I know that this has been suggested to Benny a few times in person as well. Now, I’ve no idea if the recording [...]
icethesite – version 4.0 beta is launched
The good news is icethesite is back on the interwebs with a new look! The not so good news is that there is still a bit of work to do. So don’t worry about missing content, imagery and videos – it’s all coming! Plus, there will be a new email address for the site. I’d [...]
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‘ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits’ becomes the UK’s second biggest selling album of all time
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‘We Write the Story’ unveiled
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Win an ABBA The Museum brochure signed by Benny, Björn and Frida!
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ABBA The Museum is open! (Updated with Photo Gallery)
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New Björn interview: “Don’t ask me what my favourite ABBA song is!”
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Kristina från Duvemåla Jönköping concert
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ABBA The Museum comes to life
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Benny and Björn record Eurovision anthem
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Win an ABBA The Museum brochure signed by Benny, Björn and Frida!
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Agnetha Fältskog is recording new material (Updated)
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The “definitive” version of CHESS to premiere at London’s Union Theatre
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The ‘ABBA’ album receives the Deluxe Edition treatment
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BAO boxset on the way, 6 CDs and 2 DVDs included (Updated)
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‘En skrift i snön’ broadcast in full, now also with link to Dancing Queen and full show
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Björn Ulvaeus: “The story of Jesus is just a myth to me…”
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Björn Ulvaeus reflects on the loss of Hansi Schwarz
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Susi: Hi Anne, just like John said: there´s nothing more to say after such a wonderful introdu...
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colinthebruce: GREAT news re Agnetha's album - in my opinion certainly the best one of all her post Abba ...
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Marco: Benny is a big bach fan, so it's no surprise that his music is influenced by Bach. Kristin...
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Michael Salkesld: I thought the intonation was so ABBA I could all most hear Benny and Bjorns voices through...
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Karma: I had the feeling I knew this melody. It's Bach's Gavotte from the Orchestral Suite Nr. 3,...
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JF Feulvarch: Extremely powerful and adequate song for the occasion. Grows on you too... as all Benny's...
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Alexander: Since the song will only be available as download, I really would like to know who can be ...
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ABBAfan: Benny & Bjorn created the declaration of humanity, not just an Eurovision anthem! Thak...