ABBA made history on the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 when they took the win home for Sweden with hit track Waterloo
It's nearly been a whole five decades since ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with one of their biggest hits of all time.
The very start of the song makes reference to Glasgow, with the iconic line: "I was sick and tired of everything....when you called me last night from Glasgow." But what was the meaning behind it? At the time, their marriage was teetering – mere months after the song's release, they would indeed file for divorce – yet the track was penned during a period of reflection on the brighter days.
He explained: "Bjorn was in Glasgow for some Abba promotion. It was around the time they were about to separate. He wrote the lyrics and Agnetha sings it, but really it was meant to be from him.
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