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January:
1978-01-10 ABBA filmed at the Glen
Studios by a British tv-crew.
1978-01-21 The three ABBA members in
Paris at the 'Loto Chansons' tv-show.
With members of the Rubettes
1978-01late ABBA (without Agnetha) and Stig in
Cannes at the filmfestival promoting 'The Movie'.
1978-01-27 Release single 'Take A
Chance On Me' - 'I'm A Marionette' along with the video of 'Take A
Chance On Me.
February:
1978-02-15 ABBA in London to attend
the premiere of 'The Movie'.
ABBA on the balcony of the Dorchester Hotel - Park Lane
London. ABBA stayed here nearly every time when
they were in London.
1978-02-16 ABBA attend the premiere of
'The Movie' in London West End, and receive awards (best group of
1977).
ABBA at the premiere of The Movie
1978-02-17 ABBA in Germany at Rudi
Carell's 'Am Laufenden Band' with 'Take A Chance On me'. On this
day, Frida met her father Alfred Haase, who was also on this show.
ABBA receive a Geman award from Bravo
Rehearsals
1978-02-18 ABBA in Germany for more
promotional activities.
1978-02 In this month, promo clips for 'Eagle, 'Thank You For The Music' and 'One Man, One
Woman' were made.
March:
1978-03-05 Björn and Agnetha hand
over the trophy to Agneta Hjort, winner of the alpine skiing slalom
event Abba Cup March 5, 1978 in Blommenbergs Hill outside Sockholm
Sweden.
1978-03-13 Backing track of 'Dr.
Claus von Hamlet.
1978-03mid ABBA take a week off. Björn
and Agnetha stay at home while the other couple went to Austria on a
skiing holiday.
ABBA on 'Blue Peter' (UK tv)
ABBA members attending parties in March
1978
April:
1978-04-03 ABBA work on an extended photo shoot with German photographer Wolfgang Heilemann.
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1978-04-11 Editing 'Eagle' for release
on single.
1978-04-12 ABBA to France for a few
days of promotional activities. This evening they appear on 'Les
Rendez-Vous du Dimanche' in Paris. 'Take A Chance On Me' is
performed in the studio.
ABBA on Les Rendez-Vous Du Dimance
1978-04-24 Backing track of 'Hades',
a working title of 'Heroes, a working title of 'Lovelight'.
1978-04-25 Backing track of 'Horn
Per', a working title of 'Lovers (Live A Little Longer)'.
1978-04end All ABBA members are
interviewed separately by 'Expressen'.
1978-04-30 ABBA to the U.S. to Los
Angeles.
May:
1978-05early ABBA in the U.S. for
promotional work. May is declared 'ABBA month' in America. Today
release single 'Eagle' -'Thank You For The Music'.
ABBA in front of their billboard at the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Los Angeles
1978-05-08 Filming 'Olivia
Newton-John' special with ABBA: 'Dancing Queen', 'Fernando', 'Take A
Chance On Me', 'Olivia medley'.
1978-05-10 Filming James Last's 'Star
Parade' TV Show (West-Germany) with 'Eagle/'Take A Chance On Me' and
'Thank You For The Music'.
ABBA with James Last
Benny and Frida with Frida's father Alfred Haase
1978-05-18 Inauguration of Polar Music
Studios, however, today's studio session is held in the Metronome
Studio.
1978-05-29 Backing tracks of 'Kalle
Skändare, a working title of 'Summer Night City' and 'Svantes
Inferno', a working title of 'Free A Bumble Bee'.
June:
1978-06-05 Percussion overdubs for
'Lovers (Live A Little Longer).
1978-06-06 String overdubs for 'Lovers
(Live A Little Longer) and 'Summernight City'.
1978-06-10 Frida and Benny on a 7 week
vacation to Barbados, Bjorn and Agnetha stay in Stockholm.
July:
1978-07-03 Benny and Frida return to
Stockholm to spend the rest of their holiday until the end of July on
their new boat.
August:
1978-08-08 Drum overdubs for 'Summer
Night City'.
1978-08-10 Mixing 'Summer Night City'.
1978-08-11 Mixing 'Lovelight'.
1978-08-17 Backing tracks of 'Ich Hab
Angst, a working title of 'Just A Notion' and 'Belsebub', a working
title of 'The King Has Lost His Crown'.
Just A Notion
Photo session in August 1978 at photographer Torbjörn Calvero's studio in Stockholm
1978-08-18 More work on the backing
tracks of 'Ich Hab Angst, a working title of 'Just A Notion' and
'Belsebub', a working title of 'The King Has Lost His Crown'.
1978-08-22 Filming the promo clip of
'Summer Night City' in the Europa film studios, Stockholm and on
Benny's boat.
1978-08-23 Filming the promo clip of
'Summer Night City'.
1978-08-31 Backing track for 'Hamlet
III' with the girls (=Hamlet II part 2)?
September:
1978-09-06 Release single of 'Summer
Night City, Medley: 'Pick A Bale Of Cotton - On Top Of Old Smokey -
Midnight Special'. Press release from Polar Music AB:
NEW SINGLE ABBA
Enclosed please find ABBA's latest
single release
SUMMER NIGHT CITY
c/w
MEDLEY
PICK A BALE OF COTTON ON TOP OF OLD
SMOKEY MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
The A-Side of this single is from
ABBA's forthcoming LP and is being released worldwide beginning of
September. The B-side was originally released on a charity-LP for
"Die Deutsche Krebshilfe" in Germany in 1975.
As usual there is a 16mm promotionfilm
available of this single - produced as always by the wellknown
film-producer Lasse Hallström. This film can be ordered from our
office and the price is Sw. kr. 800:- plus freight.
After a long and restful summer ABBA
are now "back in business" again working day and night with
their new LP - writing, producing and recording in our new recording
studio in Stockholm. We are hoping for a simultaneous release all
over the world before Christmas, but the release date is not yet
definitely set.
The studiowork will be interrupted for
a few days in the middle of October, when ABBA will fly down to Paris
to appear on a big TV-show.
Middle of November - when the new LP
hopefully is completed - ABBA will be off on a promotion tour to
Japan to do their own one hour TV-special for Tokyo Broadcasting
System. At the same time they will also do several radio - and
TV-interviews and give a big pressconference at the Swedish Embassy.
On their way to Japan, they will stop
over in Los Angeles to appear on the Dick Clark show on November
15th. We are right now negotiating with two major American
TV-stations to do our own American TV-special beginning of next year.
On September 10th Stig will go to
Hungary to follow up the great success of ABBA's records and our film
"ABBA- The Movie" in this territory. He will appear on
several radio- and TV- interviews and also give a pressconference.
Middle of October Stig will be going on
a trip around the world together with our international
vice-president Mr. John Spalding from London. They will start off in
Tokyo from October 15 to 21 to prepare ABBA's visit later on. From
there they will continue to Taipei, Taiwan (October 21 to 23) and to
the Philippines - Manila (October 23 - 26). They will stop in Hawaii
for a few days on their way to Los Angeles, where they will be from
October 30 to November 3. Next stop will be the Musexpo Convention
in Miami Beach (November 3 to 7) before they return home via New York
on November 9.
The wellknown French orchestra leader
Franck Pourcel has recorded an album with twelve ABBA songs to be
released world wide on Pathe-Marconi/EMI label. ABBA's latest single
"SUMMER NIGHT CITY" will also be included on this LP.
During the last months, ABBA have had
no less than three LP:s on Top 20 in Japan. July was an ABBA-month in
Japan, and they were shown on TV several times.
Middle of August ABBA were visited by
our French licensee, Mr. Alan Boublil, Disques Melba, who handed over
a golden disc for "ABBA - The Album". ABBA have also
received platinum for sale in the U.S. and Canada for their LP:s
"GREATEST HITS" and "ABBA - The Album".
September 6, 1978
GÖREL JOHNSEN
GJ/AD
1978-09-08 Two mixes of 'The King Has
Lost His Crown'.
1978-09-16 Three mixes of 'Lovelight'
. Recording 'Crying Over You'.
1978-09-21 Oboe and string overdubs
for The King Has Lost His Crown'.
1978-09-22 Mixing 'The King Has Lost
His Crown'.
1978-09-27 Backing track of 'Dream
Land', a working title of 'Dreamworld'.
1978-09-28 More work on the backing
track of 'Dreamworld'.
1978-09-29 Recording vocals for
'Dreamworld'.
October:
1978-10 40.000 LP's shipped from
Sweden to East-European countries this month.
1978-10 Recording 'Summer Night
City' (undeleted.)
1978-10-06 Mixing 'Dreamworld' and
Frida and Benny get married in Ledin today.
1978-10-07 Mixing 'Dreamworld' and
wedding party was held today at Benny and Frida's home.
1978-10-10 Stig flies to Hungary to
promote ABBA and "The Movie" in several interviews on radio
and television.
1978-10-12 ABBA and Stig give a press
conference at the 'Publicistklubbe, in the Stockholm parliament
buildings.
ABBA and Stig at pressconference
1978-10-16 Stig and Palding in Japan,
Taiwan, The Philipines, Hawaii, Los Angeles and Miami promoting ABBA.
1978-10-18 ABBA in Paris for two days
to appear on 'Top Club' doing 'Waterloo',' S.O.S'., 'Fernando',
'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'Thank You For The Music' and 'Money,
Money, Money'. ABBA are also interviewed. They change constumes
after every song.
1978-10-17 ABBA meet Mireille Matieu
this evening.
1978-10-25 Backing track of
'Pandemonium', a working title of 'If It Wasn't For The Nights'.
1978-10-26 Backing track of
'Katakusom', a working title of 'Angeleyes'.
November:
1978-11-01 Official press release from
Polar Music AB about ABBA's activities until Christmas 1978:
ABBA
This is to inform you that there will
not be any new ABBA LP before Christmas. ABBA will be off to Los
Angeles and Tokyo on November 11th for TV and promotion and returning
end of November. After a few days rest they will be going to England
to record a Christmas special called "Mike Yarwood X-mas Show",
where ABBA will perform two numbers.
They will continue the work in the
studio when they are back from England with a break over Christmas
and New Year. On January 8th, 9th and 10th they will be in New York
to appear on the great Unicef-gala hosted by Bee Gees. Other artists
appearing on this gala, which will be televized in the US, are Olivia
Newton-John, Andy Gibb, Barry Manilow, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Kris
Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and possibly one or two more.
Back to Sweden and more studiowork for
the new LP. ABBA have also decided to do a one hour TV-special called
"Snowtime Special" for BBC in England. This is a
co-production with the European Television Network and will be
broadcast simultaneously all over Europe at Easter. ABBA will
probably perform five new songs from their forthcoming LP and three
old ones. They will also have one or two guest artists appearing on
this show.
As said earlier, there will be no new
LP before Christmas - but there will be a new single from this
forthcoming LP. All information about this single will be sent to you
the week commencing November 13th.
Stockholm November 1st 1978
Görel Johnsen
1978-11-04 Horn overdubs for
'Angeleyes' and 'Pandemonium, a working title of 'If It Wasn't For
The Nights'.
1978-11-08 String overdubs for
'Angeleyes' and 'If It Wasn't For The Nights' .
1978-11-09 Three mixes are made of
'Angeleyes'. Stig and Palding fly back to Stockholm today from their
promotion tour.
1978-11-10 The final mix of
'Angeleyes'.
1978-11-11 'Summer Night City' full
length version aired on Swedish radio.
1978-11-15 ABBA interrupt their flight
to Japan in LA to appear on the 'Dick Clark Show' in Los Angeles
today.
1978-11-16 ABBA to Japan.
1978-11-17 ABBA arrive in Japan.
ABBA at a press conference
1978-11-18 ABBA in Japan working on a
one-hour special, several performances and interviews on TV- and
radio-stations.
1978-11-19. Filming of Japanese special
performing 'Eagle', 'Take A Chance On Me', 'Money, Money, Money'
(Live), 'S.O.S' (live)., 'That's Me'/Tiger, 'Dancing Queen',
'Waterloo', 'Fernando', 'Summer Night City', 'Knowing Me, Knowing
You', If It Wasn't For The Nights' and Thank You For The Music
(live).
1978-11-20 ABBA in Japan working on
special. A press conference is given at the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo.
December:
1978-12-04 Backing track of 'In The
Arms Of Rosalita, the early version of 'Chiquitita'.
1978-12-06 ABBA to London: They appear
on the 'Mike Yarwood Christmas Show' performing 'If It Wasn't For The
NIghts (an early remix without strings)', 'Take A Chance On Me' and
'Thank You For The Music (special backing track mix)
1978-12-07 ABBA in London. An other
show ABBA appeared on during this short trip was Jimmy Savile's
'Jim'll Fix It'. They met British fans and mentioned their
participation in the Unicef Gala and filming the 'ABBA in
Switserland' tv-special.
1978-12-08 Last day in London.
1978-12-13 2nd backing track of
'Kalsupare II', a working title of 'Three Wise Guys' a working title
of 'Chiquitita'.
1978-12-14 Guitar overdub for
'Kalsupare II', a working title of 'Chiquitita'.
1978-12-19 A new mix of 'If It Wasn't
For The Nights'.