ABBA released Waterloo on March 4, 1974, months before the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Brighton on April 6. But the song was written specifically for the competition the previous December, ...

Bjorn Ulvaeus reveals that the Beatles were the “biggest inspiration“ behind ABBA’s 1974 hit “Waterloo.” During an upcoming appearance on Apple Music 1’s Deep Hidden Meaning Radio with host Nile ...

A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my ...

ABBA's 1974 hit song "Waterloo" was voted the "All-Time Best Song of the Eurovision Song Contest" Saturday during a show organized on behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) by Danmarks Radio… ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It's about four people wanting more than anything else to be a pop group and singing in the language of pop, which is English,” ...

In 1974 the little known Swedish pop group Abba swept to superstardom with their Eurovision winning ?Waterloo’, and four decades later the song and the band remain as popular as ever. Now the ...

On this day 52 years ago, ABBA released the title track off their second album, “Waterloo,” before taking the song to the Brighten Dome a month later and winning the whole contest. A breakthrough ...