BBC Four - ABBA at the BBC

A compilation of ABBA's greatest performances at the BBC, including Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Does Your Mother Know, Thank You for the Music, SOS, Fernando, Chiquitita and more.

If you fancy an hour's worth of irresistible guilty pleasures from Anni-Frid, Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha, this is the programme for you. ABBA stormed the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with their winning entry Waterloo, and this programme charts the meteoric rise of the band with some of their greatest performances at the BBC.

It begins in 1974 with their first Top of the Pops appearance, and we even get to see the band entertaining holidaymakers in Torbay in a 1975 Seaside Special. There are many classic ABBA tunes from the 1979 BBC special ABBA in Switzerland, plus their final BBC appearance on the Late Late Breakfast show in 1982.

This compilation is a must for all fans and includes great archive interviews, promos and performances of some of ABBA's classics, including Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Does Your Mother Know, Thank You for the Music, SOS, Fernando, Chiquitita and many more.

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Waterloo
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SOS
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Mamma Mia
ABBA
Fernando
ABBA
Mamma Mia
ABBA
Mamma Mia
ABBA
Dancing Queen
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Money Money Money
ABBA
Knowing Me, Knowing You
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Thank You For The Music
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The Name Of The Game
ABBA
Take a Chance on Me
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Does Your Mother Know?
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Chiquitita
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Voulez Vous
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Kisses Of Fire
ABBA
Knowing Me, Knowing You
ABBA
Thank You For The Music
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The Name Of The Game
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Take a Chance on Me
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Take a Chance on Me
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Does Your Mother Know
ABBA
Does Your Mother Know
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Voulez-Vous
ABBA
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
ABBA
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
ABBA
I Have A Dream
ABBA
I Have A Dream

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