In April 1979 the album Voulez-Vous gained the first place in Europe and Japan and was best-selling in Canada, Australia and the USA. In December 1977 the band released one more work The Album, but it was not as popular as the previous one though included several hits such as The Name of the Game and Take A Chance On Me. Then ABBA gave 11 concerts in Australia, gaining remarkable success there and shooting a film ABBA: The Movie. In 1977 ABBA started a tour round Europe and its members were treated like superstars everywhere. The next album Arrival (1976) got wonderful reviews from the most powerful European and American critics with the songs Money, Money, Money, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Dancing Queen. In November 1975 ABBA released the album Greatest Hits that contained their most popular songs and the song Fernando, originally written in Swedish for Frida. The album ABBA (1975) and singles SOS and Mamma Mia were in the top lists in the USA and the European countries. The following years the popularity of ABBA got unprecedented growth. The tour was not as profitable as the musicians wanted it to be, but they received a very warm welcome in Scandinavia. In 1974 ABBA made the first international tour round Germany, Denmark and Austria. The first most successful song of ABBA was Waterloo (1974), it won the first position in Eurovision contest at Brighton Dome in England and became a real hit. In 1973 Stig Anderson, the manager of the band, began calling them ABBA, as the name Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid was very inconvenient. The songs People Need Love and Ring Ring (that won the third position at the Eurovision Song Contest) were released under this name. First, their band was called Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Anni-Frid, better known as Frida, became Benny's wife in October 1978. In some time they became not only the members of one band, but spouses - Agnetha and Björn were married in July 1971. In 1969 two women appeared in their lives: Agnetha Fältskog, a solo singer, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. At that time they had already been successful musicians: Björn was a member of the Hootenanny Singers, and Benny played keyboards in The Hep Stars.
ABBA appeared in June 1966 shortly after Björn Ulvaeus met Benny Andersson at a party.
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