ABBA IN POLAND FULL COMPLETE SPECIAL ( HD ) Abba in Studio Poland Original Broadcast: Waterloo SOS Nine pretty ballerinas My love, my life When I kissed the teacher Knowing me, knowing you Fernando Tiger Money money money Fernando Arrival ABBA IN POLAND This extremely legendary performance pf ABBA in Warsaw, Poland from 1976, containing all of their classic songs being performed beyond the Iron Curtain! Broadcast:Filmed: 1976 7-8 October 1976 Location Warsaw, Poland Broadcast Saturday 13th November 1976 at 8pm in Poland (was also broadcast in Australia on Channel 10 - date anyone?) Repeated 23 and 25 February 2008 on channel 'Kultura' of Polish TV Knowing Me, Knowing Me was broadcast on the Rage programme in Australia on 3 November 2012 proving it's available for licence and broadcast (and presumably a video release?!) Released This programme has not been included on any officially released video or DVD Agnetha had travelled ahead with her father the day before and then met Benny, Frida and Björn off the plane. She had filmed "SOS" the day before and it was interspersed with a rather embarrassed looking Benny, Frida & Björn "singing" on the plane! ABBA was only one time in Poland. It was from 7th to 8th October, 1976. Agnetha, Frida, Bjorn and Benny were a special guests on TV program "ABBA in studio 2". They sang six songs (including "Money, Money, Money" and "Fernando") from coming "Arrival" album. Recording occupied only just five hours (playback!). The group accompanied Stig Anderson and Agnetha's Father. ABBA did not get any moneys. Only rights to sale of programme to capitalistic countries. Polish Televison could sell programme in socialist countries. ABBA was treated in Poland as exceptionally important guests. Such groups did not come to Poland. Then was an exception. Group took also participation in not very successful press conference. Toured Old City in Warsaw. Frida and Benny were on supper in restaurant" Shanghai". Earlier, from highest storeys Palace Of Culture, group admired panorama of Poland's capital. ABBA is conquering Poland A report from Belgian magazine Joepie about ABBA's trip to Poland in October 1976. "Within a few minutes, we will be landing in Stockholm, where the temperature is now 8 degrees Celcius. We hope to see you again soon on one of our flights..." Listening to the pilot's voice, you can hear that a landing like this is just a formality to him. Just like we use the brakes of our car. Marcel is peaking through the window carefully to see how everything is going and together we sigh with relief when the plane puts its wheels safely on the ground. Flying is simply not our favourite hobby... It's very chilly when we step out of Arlanda airport, but we don't mind, we have arrived. Sweden, the ultimate holiday resort, like we had been told. The city centre of Stockholm is approximately 40 kilometres from the airport and that bus trip already costs us 240 Belgian francs. You get tired of looking at the landscape pretty quickly, you don't see anything else but trees and more trees. Stockholm itself is an impressive city: broad streets, large stores, monumental buildings. In short, a city that's a couple of years ahead of its time. But also impressively expensive: you pay 80 Belgian francs for a coke in a random café. After a short walk through the city -- within 15 minutes we are of course completely lost -- we decide to get back to our hotel. The next morning we are having an appointment with ABBA. To fly along with them to Poland... The appointment was at 8 o'clock at Arlanda airport. There were already a couple of people walking around when we arrived, because ABBA had invited some Scandinavian friends to the trip as well. Björn and Benny were fifteen minutes late, but they were excused. Traffic jams and things like that, you know. The duo plumped down in the relaxing chairs at the bar and welcomed everybody with a little wink. Benny asked us if we had brought along the most recent Joepies so that he could glance through them while waiting for the plane to arrive. "Oh yes, that interview about our European tour," he winks. "Did I really say all this?" he asks us when he sees that -- for him incomprehensible -- text. It wasn't until five minutes later that Anni-Frid caught our eye, who was reading something in a silent corner. "I don't like all this fuss at the airport," she told us. "I'd rather seclude myself to do some reading." Anna was nowhere to be found, we thought. Anni-Frid must have read our minds. "Oh yes, Anna has left for Poland one day early. Björn and Anna mostly travel separately, for the sake of their children. If something goes wrong, they will still have their father or their mother. Anna travelled together with her father..." There was a Polish camera crew as well, to film the entire trip for television. To show as an introduction to the special that they were going to film in Warsaw. .

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