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After a long period without new music from her angelic voice, Agnetha " Anna " Faltskog has released a new album titled "A". With singles released throughout Europe and with success in many countries, the album has become a hit.

Welcome to BWW's ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history! Happy Birthday, Judy Kuhn ! Kuhn made her Broadway debut was in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Daisy Wyatt has newly joined the Independent online team as an arts and entertainment writer.

It was originally conceived in Monaco by Marcel Bezencon and based on the Italian Sanremo Festival, held since 1951.

Abba's greatest hits collection has overtaken The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the UK's second biggest selling album of all time, according to the Official Charts Company.

Rod Stewart has scored his first UK number one album for 34 years, going straight to the top with his LP, Time.

The 43-year-old is a successful comedian in Sweden and has her own TV show, but she found a whole new audience as host of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision is derided as a shallow spangle-fest but more than half a million Australians will tune in to watch on Sunday night even though they can't barrack for their country.

The Eurovision Song Contest returned to Sweden Saturday with pageantry fit for an Olympic ceremony, as flag bearers entered on stage to a special hymn by pop icon ABBA's song-writing duo.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt pose during the arrival party for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at Malmo Arena Hall in Malmo May 18, 2013.

Techno beats, over-the-top stage antics and pop stars of the past return to the spotlight in Malmo, Sweden this weekend as the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest ramps up to its showy finale.

For most of the last three decades, ABBA was but a memory for Agnetha Faltskog. She made concerted efforts to leave behind her past as one of two principal singers of the best-selling 1970s Swedish quartet, best known for the pop classic "Dancing Queen." "There was several years after I had stopped with the group that I couldn't listen to the ... (more)

In this July 4, 2008 file photo, Abba members Agnetha Faltskog, center, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad-Reuss, right, greet cast member Meryl Streep, left, at the premiere of the movie version of the musical "Mamma Mia!," in Stockholm.

When the vocal begins on the opening track, "The One Who Loves You Now," you're instantly transported back to the 1970's, when the same voice would permeate the radio airwaves with such hits as "Waterloo," "Fernando," and "Mamma Mia." The hits of the Swedish super-group ABBA still inundate the Broadway stage at the Winter Garden Theater, but we now ... (more)

BACK FOR GOOD: The Swedish group Abba in their stage clothes in 1975. Now fans can go to the new ABBA The Museum in Stockholm - the closest thing to a reunion.

Abba's Agnetha Faltskog returns to the spotlight with a new album. For A Faltskog has been working with renowned, Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer Jorgen Elofsson and acclaimed producer/arranger Peter Nordahl.

A museum opened recently in Stockholm to show off band paraphernalia, including the helicopter featured on the cover of their "Arrival" album, a star-shaped guitar and dozens of glitzy costumes the Swedish band wore at the height of its 1970s fame.

By everything, I mean they give us a set that's a model of effective simplicity, music direction by Stephen Peters that makes the most of the choral undercurrents and pop sensibilities of ABBA composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, staging that moves briskly with never a wasted move .

Former Abba star Agnetha Faltskog has hammered another nail in the legendary pop band's coffin - she has vowed they will never reunite.

Former Abba singer Agnetha Faltskog said she needed to hide away from fame and that her fear of flying was the reason many people branded her a recluse after the Swedish supergroup broke up over 30 years ago "I was the black sheep of Abba.