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Carribean - 09.04.2008, 03:52
All Things MCB!
Hej!

Johnny started a topic about the impact that My Colouring Book had on ABBA fans and it gave me an idea to start a topic about all things My Colouring Book. So pics, reviews, adds and magazine articles!


It all started with this on October 2003 in the Swedish Billboard Magazine. Written by Jeffrey DeHart:


ABBA's Fältskog Plans Solo Set

ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog is putting the finishing touches on her first album in 16 years for release in March 2004. Basic recording of the album is finished, with final overdubs and tweaking nearing completion. A single is planned for release in January on an as yet undetermined label.

Her last album was 1987's Peter Cetera-produced "I Stand Alone." The Atlantic Records set produced a top-20 Adult Contemporary hit duet with Cetera, "I Wasn't the One (Who Said Goodbye)."

Fältskog quietly returned to the studio in 2000 with an idea of recording songs that have inspired her. The project was put on hold when trusted friend and ABBA sound engineer Michael B. Tretow suffered a stroke, but work
later resumed with Anders Neglin. Neglin's credits include playing keys on Brenda Russell's "Get Here" album and transcribing ABBA's master tapes for the "Mamma Mia!" musical score.

"Agnetha chose music that is very important to her from earlier in her life," Neglin says. "As we started to get into it we added our own colour to the songs."

Neglin brought drummer and producer Dan Stromkvist to the project in January. "We decided to produce the album together - the three of us - and
we have worked since as a trio."

Unlike ABBA co-star Frida Lyngstad, whose 1996 No. 1 comeback album was in
Swedish, Fältskog's outing -- a 15-track acoustic set recorded with a full orchestra -- is in English and includes songs originated by legends Brenda Lee and Cilla Black.

According to Staffan Lindé, who handles business affairs for Agnetha Fältskog Produktion AB, a label deal has yet to be confirmed, but the artist has licensed her post-Polar Music recordings to Warner Music Sweden.


And then the news in January 2004:


Now it is time.

- She has signed for Warner, says the man closest to her, Staffan Lindé.

It was Sweden's most secret record project. The work on Agnetha Fältskog's new record has be surrounded by enormous secrecy.
And the news that the former ABBA member is recording a new record echoed across the world.

Now has yet another step been taken.

In the last few days Fältskog signed a record contract with Swedish Warner Music.

- I can confirm that she has signed for Warner, says her economic advisor, Staffan Lindé.

The advance chat has talked about that it is a matter of English language pop. The ABBA star has already recorded 22 songs in total, 14-15 will be on the record.
The work on the record already started three years ago. But when ABBA's long-time sound engineer suffered a stroke the recordings were interrupted. Now Dan Strömstedt is in instead as the sound engineer.

Story by Claes Petersson, Aftonbladet http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,418251,00.html


New pictures followed that same month...

Carribean - 09.04.2008, 04:12

Agnetha's first interview since 1988 was with Kristian Luuk in Sen Kväll Med Luuk on Swedish tv in April 2004:


Kristian Luuk: Hello over there, Agnetha.

Agnetha Fältskog: Hej, Kristian.

KL: How are you?

AF: Thank you very much. Very well indeed.

KL: Where are you?

AF: Well, right now I don't know exactly. But we are on Ekerö in the middle of a film recording. We are working with 25-30-minute-TV special.

KL: Happy birthday, by the way. It was on Monday, wasn't it?

AF: Mmmm. Thank you very much.

KL: A new album is coming now. The first one for 17 years. Tell us about it. Was it fun to record this album?

AF: Oh yes it was great fun. I've been working with this project for 4 years now. It is wonderful that the album will be released now and that it is so good.

KL: How did you choose the songs?

AF: I listened to hundreds, thousands of songs during very long time. It wasn't easy to choose the best ones. These songs mean a lot to me. They are in my heart and even the artists are very important for me.

KL: We will see and hear you new video - what does this song "If I thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" mean to you?

AF: We chose it for the first single because it represents the whole album very well. Cilla Black did the original version of the song. We have one more cover of her song on the album. As I said these songs mean a lot to me. And this one we chose for the single...

KL: We want to wish you a very happy Easter before you go.

AF: The same to you and all of you watching this programme.


Here you can watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDOAuEPX8tY


Kristian actually met Agnetha to talk to her and then acted as if he talked to her from the studio.

Carribean - 09.04.2008, 04:55

Thanks Richard! Yes she was working on the tv special indeed!


Some more promo-pics!

johnny59 - 09.04.2008, 07:47

Well. This gives me the opportunity for some shameless self promotion.

Unfortunately Warner has closed down their website that was dedicated to Agnetha's MCB project at http://www.agnetha.se (Shame on them! :jedi: )

But I had saved the story about the making of MCB that had been present in three languages (Swedish, English, German) on my harddisk earlier, not knowing that it might have been a flash of genius that made me do it.

Because now you still can read this story, saved for the world by www.agnetha-forever.de :!:

Come in and enjoy.

http://www.agnetha-forever.de/ChangeLog/agnetha_se/agnetha_se.html

johnny59 - 09.04.2008, 13:02

Thanks, Johnsteven, but I don't have to change my mind. She does. It should say "If I thought I'd ever change my mind"!

:rotfl:

Richard - 09.04.2008, 15:38

Maxi-saxi wrote: Cheers Ron

Interesting So according to some sources up to 22 songs have been recorded, since we have still quite a few to still get then Don't we.

It would be nice if they decided to release a deluxe Version Of MCB With EVERY song recorded AND they could quite easily include a DVD with the Documentry and Clips of the songs.


I reckon it would be a great idea.

I think it would make Christmas 2008 a Great one indeed.

Maxi-saxi

Maxi-saxi, I agree with you:

If they release a Deluxe Version of MCB with all the songs recorded and a DVD with all the videos, some interviews and more stuff, it would be great. It's a excellent album and it would be worthy if they release a new version of it.

:agree: :agree: :agree:

Simsalabim - 09.04.2008, 18:23

Great topic Ron!

Here's some more pictures:

Carribean - 09.04.2008, 20:55

In April Agnetha worked on a short docu to promote the album. The team working with Agnetha on it were interviewed afterwards!

http://www.agnethaarchives.com/articles/ced_id34.htm






Agnetha's own Fab 5

Will Abba ever reunite? Watch the TV-program "Agnetha" and you'll get the answer...

Agnetha Fältskog may be a media shy individual, but you really can't say the same about the gang who has helped her with videos for the new album "My Colouring Book" and the TV-program "Agnetha".

-I am very satisfied with the result and with the team. I work well with gay
people, you actually don't see a difference between homo and hetero, Agnetha Fältskog says to QX.

Agnetha's own Fab 5 consists of Lotta Bromé, interviewer, Ola Johansson,
project leader and art director, Magnus Skogsberg Tear, director (you haven't missed his "Village People-commercial" for Billy's pizzabitar, have yyou?), Magnus Flobecker, stylist, Espen Bekkebråte, producer (together with Ulla Fluur), Tony Lundström, hair stylist, who unfortunately wasn't there when QX met the Agnetha-gang on an early morning in May in a photo studio on Hammarby fabriksväg. It's a merry and close gang, and maybe that's not very strange since all of them are "family" (=gay. Claes' note).

How come Agnetha chose to work with a group of homos?

Ola: It's probably mostly because of me. When I began to book people for
this project I chose people I knew are good at what they're doing but at the same time work well in a team. It just happened to be all homos. But the most important thing was that they were people that Agnetha would feel comfortable with. Agnetha also said when we had begun working that she felt secure with the team, that they weren't people who didn't wish her well.

Magnus F: Since all of us on the team are homos, we could in a way identify with Agnetha's vulnerability. All of us have lived as outsiders and in periods not wanted to or been able to reveal everything about us to the
world around us. We were all keen on treating Agnetha in a respectful way.

Is the purpose of this TV-program that Agnetha won't have to give any other interviews?

Ola: From the beginning the purpose was to make a promotional program for the new album, but during the work on it, it's turned into a more personal program about Agnetha. At first only her voice was to be heard, but once she began trusting us more she agreed to be shown on camera as long as we promised to throw away what she didn't like. She hasn't thrown out one single frame.

Lotta: But why be upset because Agnetha doesn't give any other nterviews
instead of being grateful that she's agreed to make this program?

Magnus S: But the thought has also been to give Agnetha a format that suits her. Just because you're an actor, singer or famous for something else, it's not obvious that you have to enjoy sitting on an interview sofa on a program with a host whose ego is bigger than the artist’s - so that you in the end don't know whose show it is. Personally I'm so tired of those formats even as a part of the audience and it was an inspiring starting point for me in the structuring of the program in the beginning. To allow Agnetha as an artist to be the absolute center of the program.

What was your first reaction, Lotta, when you were offered to interview
Agnetha?

Lotta: I was overjoyed. Agnetha has for a long time been on my wish list, I called her manager last fall to try to get her on Söndagsöppet. When Ola
called me and asked me, I had just watched the fake satellite interview in
"Sen kväll med Luuk", and I thought I could have done it so much better.
Agnetha has also said that she didn't recognize herself at all on there,
that it felt as if somebody else was standing there talking.

Ola: When we suggested Lotta to Agnetha, her spontaneous comment was "Lotta is so nice". After that I called Lotta who at first got all quiet, then she just said "cool"... The following week Magnus and I brought Lotta with us out to Agnetha to have lunch. Lotta stayed until the evening, they really connected.

Tell us about the filming itself.

Ola: The filming lasted for three days spread out through April. Day one we filmed three videos in the studio, day two we filmed two videos plus a short film with Agnetha and the actor Magnus Krepper, and day three we filmed Lotta's interview with Agnetha. Good planning by good producers and director made it possible for us to accomplish a lot during a short period of time, without it being stressful in any way.

Magnus S: Agnetha is really super professional. And she also appreciates
professional people - you can tell. She has a very special relationship with
the camera and the camera loves her and I felt we really could use that. And when it comes to lip-synch, she easily beats everyone. We could have played Lennart Nilsson if we had wanted to! Then it means a lot to me that I haven't had to edit or cut out anything in the program, instead she has accepted it the way it is. That's wonderful considering we had such free hands!

What is your first memory of Agnetha and Abba?

Magnus S: I liked Agnetha already before Abba, I walked around lipsyncing to "Jag skulle äga miljoner om tårar var guld".

Ola: My sister had all of Abba's records, and I thought it was very dorky. I
didn't begin to like Abba until I came out as gay and moved to Stockholm.
Wherever I went, Abba was played, so I was a bit brainwashed...

Espen: My first memory of Abba is Waterloo, just like for so many others.

Lotta: I discovered Abba in 1973 when they didn't win with "Ring ring", but
instead that silly "Dina bröst är som svalor som häckar" won. In 1974 I saw Abba live on Gröna Lund, and a few years later in Skandinavium. A great memory! When I played Abba with my friends, I was always Björn - because it was cool to have a guitar!

Magnus F: Of course I also liked Abba as a child, and I adored Björn's
silvery platform shoes. I asked for a pair of those for my sixth birthday,
but of course I didn't get any. I am still looking for the perfect pair of
shoes...

None of you had met Agnetha before this project - what image did you have of her? And how did it fit wit what she's like in reality?

Ola: I didn't really have the image that the media is trying to give of her,
instead I thought, "leave her alone!".

Magnus F: Agnetha is despite everything a cautious person, she says so
herself, and I have all the respect for that.

Lotta: I didn't have an image of her since I take pains to not have preconceived notions about people I've never met. But now that I know
Agnetha a bit, I view her as an unusually direct person, with lots of humor.
A beautiful person.

Magnus S: Agnetha has an enormous integrity and that's only cool. But she is also surprising and unexpected with some great black (dark) humor and an infectious laughter.

If Agnetha decides to do something more in the future - will she hire this
production team again?

Magnus S: You never know. She can say things such as "Now there won't be anything more..." and at the same time have a mischievous gleam in her eye.

Ola: If she'll do something more, I'm quite sure she'll contact us since we
worked together so incredibly well. But we like to work together so well
that we'll work with other artists.

Have you gotten to know Agnetha so well that you will spend time with her
privately now?

(silence)

Lotta: If the answer to that question had been "yes", I still wouldn't have
answered it...

By Pär Jonasson




Standing: Magnus Flobecker (left), Espen Bekkebråte (right). Below the TV, from left to right: Lotta Bromé, Ola Johansson and Magnus Skogsberg

johnny59 - 09.04.2008, 21:04

Carribean wrote:
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1777/029pv4.jpg


This one's cute. What is she holding in her hand?

Carribean - 10.04.2008, 02:19

johnny59 wrote:
This one's cute. What is she holding in her hand?

Something Swedish for sure!

johnny59 wrote: I don't remember there was a Spanish translation on the original site, I would think not.

Yes there was a Spanish version of the site as well. I remember reading Agnetha's story in Spanish and also the details about why she picked the songs on MCB.



Anyway... a nice review from http://www.dotmusic.co.uk

Agnetha Fältskog - 'My Colouring Book'
(Monday April 26, 2004 4:44 PM )

Released on 19/04/2004
Label: WEA

Any Abba biog will inform you that the world's greatest-ever pop group actually sprang from the Scandinavian folk scene, where all four members were already recording artists of some success.

That "My Colouring Book", blonde recluse Agnetha Fältskog's first solo album in over fifteen years, comprises covers of her favourite pre-Abba songs might, then, strike fear into the hearts of the 'Mamma Mia' masses, but a pleasant surprise awaits one and all.

Thanking everyone from Doris Day and Cilla Black to Simon & Garfunkel, Demis Roussos, The Beach Boys, Cliff Richards and Bing Crosby on the sleeve, "My Colouring Book" is a collection of well-known and obscure ballads that romanticizes heartbreak in the way only the Swedish can.

Of course, the skill in choosing such songs is in telling your story without having written a word of it. Anyone who had hoped Agnetha had busied herself with pottery and found fulfilment setting up an animal sanctuary, perhaps, will be disappointed. The last two decades have apparently been full of lost and impossible love... could anything be more romantic, in pop terms? Mais non.

Opener "My Colouring Book", previously recorded by Andy Williams, Barbra, Cliff, Dusty, Brenda Lee and Aretha - how's that for credentials? - could have been purpose-written for the project: "For those who fancy colouring books/And lots of people do/Here's a new one for you..." It's followed immediately by the album's stand-out moment, "When You Walk In The Room" (one of The Searchers' many hit Jackie DeShannon covers), rendered in an enormously satisfying Phil Spector style.

Thereafter, the first of two Cilla covers, a Beatles-y "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind", immeasurably improved simply through not being sung by the Scouse foghorn. "Sealed With A Kiss" is next, with a bewitching, Ry Cooder-tumbleweedy treatment that erodes all remembrance of Jason Donovan, then the straight 60s crooning of Petula Clark's "Love Me With All Your Heart" before "Fly Me To The Moon", which remains a slinky cabaret classic.

The Shangri-Las' "Past, Present And Future" is the first oddity, a spookily spoken-word affair that seems to storybook Agnetha's well-publicised stalker troubles ("Take a walk along the beach tonight?/I'd love to/But don't try to touch me..."). "A Fool Am I" is a belter in the Dusty Springfield mould; "I Can't Reach Your Heart" a piano-led song from a long-lost musical.

Elsewhere, "Sometimes When I'm Dreaming", replenishes the quirky quotient with its refrain of "I wake up screaming/Sometimes when I'm dreaming", before the second Cilla track, "The End Of The World" is successfully reclaimed as a shuffling Motown number.

The penultimate track, the little-known "Remember Me", could easily be an Abba outtake, before "What Now My Love", the Shirley Bassey showtune par excellence, closes proceedings with a bizarre yet effective "Where The Streets Have No Name" production job.

In short, "My Colouring Book" is a peerless resurrection of a pop princess, to whom the modern-day equivalents cannot compare; she can sing, for starters - that wonderful, familiar soprano is high and clear in the mix throughout, and age has not wearied it. Oh, and she looks gorgeous on the sleeve, in that middle-aged, Joanna Lumley, better-than-ever way that makes mere mortals weep over their shallow gene pools and misspent years of sunbathing.

Would that all icons had the good grace to wait until they had an album of such quality to relaunch themselves - once again, Agnetha Fältskog has set the gold standard of pop.

8/10 stars by Emma Warren

abbascots - 10.04.2008, 10:10

Sorry johnny i dont know why i wrote that as the title :oops: :lol:
Here is a new one with the correct wording for you!



JS

Carribean - 10.04.2008, 21:17

Sunday Life Story: Desolate dancing queen.
By John McGurk, 25 April 2004.



Arelster music fans ready to Take A Chance again on ABBA's most enigmatic member, Agnetha Fältskog? Or will the now 54-year-old Swedish grandmother meet her Waterloo in a music market place completely different from her Seventies' heyday?

Fältskog was the blonde bombshell with the most famous posterior in pop - a Dancing Queen who fulfilled countless schoolboys and drooling dads' Swedish vamp fantasies. But as she cheekily winked her way through Take A Chance On Me, and sexily smiled through ABBA's glory days, Fältskog's real life unhappiness belied the shiny exterior.

Other than a bizarre boyfriend-turned-stalker relationship with a young Dutch fan, little has been heard of her... until now. For Agnetha Fältskog has just released her first solo album in 17 years, My Colouring Book.

The build-up has been typically mysterious, with the notoriously private Fältskog pulling the plug on all promotion, just weeks before its release.
However, she has been astute enough to hook the release of her comeback album to the tide of nostalgia and affection these days for anything to do with ABBA. Perhaps surprisingly, she hasn't chosen the easy camp disco comeback option, as My Colouring Book is shaped by a selection of middle of the road songs from her teenage days.

Even though its 13 tracks are mostly cover versions of Sixties' standards, My Colouring Book is a concept album in all but name - spine-chilling in its sense of melodic, melancholic desolation. Only one song - When You Walk In The Room - approximates anything like the happy, pure pop of peak period ABBA. But the influence of ABBA's loser in love stories - Knowing Me, Knowing You, The Winner Takes It All and The Day Before You Came - uncannily echoes throughout. It's like Fältskog's highly personalised tracks of her tears - with other people's words spookily reflecting her apparently lonely state of mind.

Current single, If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind is an elegant, elegaic piece of baroque pop - with her voice eerily recapturing the yearning, plaintive performances of the past. There are mistakes - as on the sort of old fashioned, string-drenched Eurovision-style ballad which ABBA did their best to obliterate - A Fool Am I. But, for the most part, Fältskog's song choices and performances are flawless - oddly emulating the leftfield eccentricity which the likes of Bjork, Tori Amos and Kate Bush specialise in.

Her cover of the Brian Hyland hit, Sealed With A Kiss, comes complete with a shivering, twangy guitar riff which wouldn't be out of place in a blackly surreal David Lynch film. Her spoken meditation on old romances and female frigidity on Past, Present and Future is extraordinary as she warns 'Don't try to touch me' in fairytale-turned-bad Ice Maiden tones.

The most surprising aspect of this superficially middle of the road set comes from its utterly desolate, virtually suicidal sentiments, more usually expressed by the likes of Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. The stripped bare piano and stringed track, Sometimes When I'm Dreaming, is bleakly beautiful, with Fältskog's best vocal performance possessing lines such as 'nobody knew just how it feels to be me' with chilling conviction. The best is kept for last - Fältskog's understated and subtly dramatic revision of the Shirley Bassey chestnut, What Now My Love, with insistent tribal drums and chiming, U2-like guitar.

Sometimes self-pitiful and sorrowful, Fältskog detonates any hackneyed notions that blondes have more fun. For her worldview is far bluer than the glammed-up eyeshadow of her youth. ABBA's Swede dreams of old may have turned into real life nightmares for Fältksog. But, ironically, this tear-filled set is an ABBA-solute creative triumph.

My Colouring Book by Agnetha Fältksog is on WEA Records and is available now.

http://whitreadpl.server101.com/news/2004_04_01_archive.htm

abbascots - 10.04.2008, 23:09

LOL,Johnny i thought id better make a new one because i had messed up the spelling :? Thou you never know what Agnetha may attend in the future you may get too speak too her one day :shock: :wink: I never thought id own a cd with all recent ABBA members signatures together so never say never :lol:
Thankyou Ron for this very interesting article i do enjoy the comments regarding Agnethas vocals and the way the columist picks out parts off the songs,Interesting reading :wink:
JS

Maxi-saxi - 11.04.2008, 03:45

Ron your are a Champ, Really enjoying reading these reviews on Agnetha's My colouring Book, thanks for the time and effort in posting, Much appreciated.

Maxi-saxi

jacko10 - 11.04.2008, 17:54

Quote:

''Hopefully, this won't be a one-off and the most misunderstood pop princess will soon return with her own material - now she's told us all about her life's story''.

Well said!!

Richard - 12.04.2008, 19:29

Wow, I really liked those reviews and interviews. These last days, finally, I've seen the "Agnetha TV Special" talking about MCB and her life, and I really enjoyed it all. If you haven't seen it yet:

Part One:

Link

Part Two:

Link

Part Three:

Link

Part Four:

Link

Now, I want to ask something: In that time were comments of the others ABBA members about MCB? Did Frida, Björn or Benny talked or listened to the album?

Thanks!

Bonnie - 12.04.2008, 22:10

All things MBC: the jewel case. Let's not underestimate the jewel case.
:wink: :wink: :wink:

Carribean - 12.04.2008, 22:44

Bonnie wrote: Let's not underestimate the jewel case.


Richard wrote: It's a jewel.

And what about the jeweled caskets??

:lol:

Maxi-saxi - 13.04.2008, 03:12

thanks for that


Maxi-saxi

Carribean - 13.04.2008, 07:07

Carribean - 13.04.2008, 07:13

And then some...

Richard - 13.04.2008, 07:27

Nice, Ron. I really was asking myself about it.

Hades - 13.04.2008, 14:31

A report on dutch TV about the album:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=5JVKWxfbNOE

'feel the beat from the tambourine': a few more promopics.

Simsalabim - 13.04.2008, 15:15

Did she look great during this session or what! :agnetha:

Another pic:

Fire&Ice - 13.04.2008, 19:48

These are awesome promopics Hades!!

Carribean - 14.04.2008, 03:22

My Colouring Book television commercials:

Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UKwslQ--fY

Sweden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzJtmxuo3I4

Simsalabim - 14.04.2008, 17:37

johnny59 - 14.04.2008, 22:53

I really love her in the Brome interview, Elin. So natural and down to earth.

johnny59 - 14.04.2008, 23:23

Quite a nice and friendly review for "Der Spiegel".

Carribean - 15.04.2008, 11:37

From Raffem: My Colouring Book hitting the Swedish shops!

Simsalabim - 15.04.2008, 17:46

"Veckans skiva" that's very cool :agnetha:

I hope she decides to do some more, it would be so amazing :D

Maxi-saxi - 16.04.2008, 05:07

Agree with you there JS I too watched the Agnetha DVD I had the other night and it was so down to earth, Really nice, This is why we need a joint project by the record company's.

We need an official release, there is just so much amazing material out there
Maxi-saxi

Simsalabim - 17.04.2008, 16:37

How could I resist you!! :bow:

Carribean - 19.04.2008, 06:15

Agnetha at the release party for My Colouring Book at Berns in Stockholm, April 19th 2004.
Press and photographers were not allowed in so this piccie is a rare one!

Richard - 20.04.2008, 14:17

Wow, I really liked the last pics you've been putting, especially the Music store ones... I really was excited watching the way swedish promoted the album in stores... I hope one day Music Stores in my country make something similar with ABBA or solo projects.

Maxi-saxi - 22.04.2008, 04:50

Thanks for the article and link Ron, And the pic you posted at the release Of MCB is so wonderful


Maxi-saxi

Carribean - 22.04.2008, 11:43

Lol Johnny!
I knew you would be pleased with these pics and words from the man himself! You felt that he was eating Agnetha's face... didn't you!?

:agnetha:

Carribean - 22.04.2008, 20:37

You can watch the "job" here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kljBRkjEez0

:mrgreen:

johnny59 - 22.04.2008, 23:28

Another annoying aspect is that he calls her ABBA-Agnetha. :evil: :evil: I don't know any ABBA-Agnetha. Who's that, ABBA-Agnetha??? :evil: :evil: :evil:

Carribean - 23.04.2008, 20:02

Agnetha is indeed still called ABBA-Agnetha in the Swedish press which is odd because before ABBA became famous she was very succesfull as the solosinger Agnetha Fältskog. Why not call her that!!??

:?

Maxi-saxi - 24.04.2008, 04:59

More than annoying really especially in Sweden!

Maxi-saxi

aggie-fan - 26.04.2008, 20:50

well i know when ever i say agnetha's name i say the blonde one from abba. same with olivia newton-john. i say, sandy from grease. and geri halliwell as ginger spice.


aggie-fan/livvyfan

Richard - 27.04.2008, 02:22

When I saw that "long kiss" for the first time, I thought it was disgusting (I agree with you, Johnny). I can do it better :) (just kidding :lol: )

Same thing some of you feel when you hear or read ABBA-Agnetha happens to me when I hear or read "The blonde one". I know a lot of people don't know her name, but, come on... Now there are a lot of encyclopedias for PC's or in Internet.

And, as Einar said, is there any updates about an Agnetha's new recording?

Joe - 27.04.2008, 18:53

Richard wrote: Same thing some of you feel when you hear or read ABBA-Agnetha happens to me when I hear or read "The blonde one".
I think "The blonde one" is much worse, because there isn't even her name left, completely non-personal, replaceable.

Joachim

BellaIsa - 30.04.2008, 17:27

How did they written her last name??? :shock:

"Fältsnog" Has this any importance which I donŽt understand???

In the article:

Quote: "She found the best looking guy she could."

Oh I donŽt think so. IŽve watched the picture of the posted article from Carribean. Magnus Kreepers isnŽt beautyful I think .
:?

BellaIsa - 30.04.2008, 18:00

@johnny

Thanks for your translation.

This guy is so unintressting thant I canŽt write his accurate name - sorry. ;) :D :lol:

johnny59 - 30.04.2008, 19:34

golliwog wrote: well...creeper works too...lol

jessy

:lol:

Carribean - 11.05.2008, 03:41

Found this review from April 2004:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3625657.stm

Review: Agnetha Faltskog's solo album by Michael Osborn (BBC News Online entertainment staff).

Thirty years since Abba's memorable Eurovision victory, former group member Agnetha Faltskog has returned to the musical spotlight with a solo album. Blonde vocalist Faltskog was a vital part of the Swedish quartet Abba, who scored a string of memorable global hits. The music ended for the group in 1982.

The enigmatic Faltskog had a brief, less successful spell as a solo artist but then fell silent for 17 years. This 2004 comeback with My Colouring Book puts further distance between Faltskog and her Abba past, but will none the less be devoured by fans.

The 53-year-old singer's long-awaited revival is a personal tribute project to her past musical influences. It is a recreation of existing songs from the likes of Cilla Black, Brian Hyland and Frank Sinatra. The lack of new material means Faltskog retains her mysterious, elusive air after years of seclusion.

The single If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind is a dramatic, delicately-wrought song that reflects the album's old-fashioned sense of song recording. The intriguing Faltskog lays down her love of 60s musical melodrama with A Fool Am I - an orchestrally embellished old-style pop anthem. The mood lightens with Love Me With All Your Heart and the Motown barnstormer When You Walk In The Room. Faltskog's interpretation of Fly Me To The Moon is a flighty piece of bossa nova cabaret - and perhaps a cover too far. Her vocal tones are at their richest on heartfelt ballad Sometimes When I'm Dreaming, along with lyrics which she could be singing from the heart.

The one-time Abba star has come up with a very safe musical return, which is destined for the more mature musical palate. It is a well-produced record, but is staunchly old school and sounds far less innovative than Abba did in their day. Fans of the band will find little reference to that gilded era, except the odd shade of high drama with a nod to The Winner Takes It All.

After shunning the limelight for so many years, this heavily masked return is a failed opportunity for the once loved star to recapture our hearts.

My Colouring Book is on sale in the UK from 19 April.

Carribean - 24.05.2008, 18:15

On December 15th, 2004 Warner Sweden released a radio promotion cd featuring a Sound Factory remix of Sometimes When I'm Dreaming.
Sadly it was never released as a commercial single.





Here is the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtQdrtvVyI

Carribean - 24.05.2008, 22:56

I agree!
At first I did not like it that much but now I do, as well as the original. It could have done well at the charts around Christmas!

Carribean - 29.05.2008, 00:58

Maxi-saxi wrote: I am lucky I actually have this single.

Wow! Congrats to you!

:wink:

Maxi-saxi - 08.06.2008, 05:43

Cheers Ron


Maxi-saxi