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6.4.04
Happy ABBA Day! Happy Birthday James Fox!

Yes, it’s 30 years ago today that ABBA won Eurovision in Brighton and 28 years ago today that this year’s UK entrant was born. Surely this is an omen? It’s also five years to the day that Mamma Mia opened in London’s West End. Three members of ABBA are due to meet up tonight for a celebration. Rumours in the papers that they would sing in public, but I really hope they don’t. I have celebrated today by buying the new version of ABBA Gold, which now comes as a CD with a DVD, almost complete with all the videos for less than a tenner. (Why no video for The Name Of The Game?) Thank goodness I held out all these years against buying it. Just to complete the Eurovision experience today, my tickets for the main event on 15th May arrived in today’s post from Istanbul – hurrah! Chig’s reviews of all 36 songs in this year’s Eurovision will appear here shortly, but in the meantime, here’s the ABBA countdown, part one. Part two tomorrow.

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