ABBA receives an vital Swedish award after nearly fifty years

Swedish pop group ABBA has obtained a excessive royal honour. Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Reuss (previously Lyngstad) had been awarded the Swedish Vasa Order by King Carl Gustaf on the Royal Palace in Stockholm.

The favored pop group was given an order for his or her “particular achievements within the Swedish and worldwide music business”.

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ABBA is without doubt one of the most profitable bands on this planet with over 200 million data bought. Their success started when ABBA received the Eurovision Music Contest in 1974 Waterloo. Main worldwide successes adopted with songs akin to SOS, However mother in Dancing queen.

The band consisted of two {couples}, Agnetha and Björn and Benny and Anni-Frid. The marriages didn’t final ultimately and that additionally meant the top of the pop group in 1983. A short lived break was taken, which turned out to be everlasting ultimately.

The Order of Vasa present coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of ABBA’s Eurovision win Waterloo in 1974. It’s one in all Sweden’s most vital royal honors and was awarded for the primary time in nearly fifty years.

A yr after ABBA received the Eurovision Music Contest, it was determined that any longer solely international residents can be allowed to obtain the Swedish order. Final yr that call was reversed, additionally for different Swedish orders. The primary Vasa orders had been handed out at the moment.