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Summary: ABBA in Concert
Comment: The 1979 Wembly Arena concert in London encompassed footage from the American tour. The group maps out the tour on a cake shaped like the U.S. The cities are mostly across the northern tier. In London, they wear blue and white spandex against a background of icebergs. The concert is grand, and ABBA is poised. Frida's dance routine in Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! is enjoyable. Her movements have the grace of a professional dancer. The women look to be six feet tall! Voulez-Vous is smooth. Hole In Your Soul has more fire than the studio cut. And isn't it provocative when the women kneel beside the jamming Lasse Wellander on Does Your Mother Know? Benny tickles the ivories midway through I Have A Dream, and Agnetha's eyebrows go up for Take A Chance On Me. Agnetha's daughter, Linda, appears for I Have A Dream. As a finale, Benny drags out his accordion for The Way Old Friends Do. This live version is on the Super Trouper album. Soaking up the applause!
Customer Rating:
Summary: All you want is more!
Comment: This is a historical DVD: remember it was filmed back in 1979, when very few acts did the same; it was meant for TV and not for the big screen (as was Abba The Movie); it was BEFORE MTV and when video clips where called promo videos or music videos... This said, sit down if you can and enjoy the four super Swedes, their super band, the roller-skates cameramen, the cheering audience... let it go! I don't get the sound issue as many have said since I have just a regular 2.0 TV set, but ABBA rocks and kick it here with superior instrumental and vocal skills. It's a natural perfomance like those you don't see nowadays. Of course you miss the complete Waterloo or Take A Chance On Me videos; you naturally feel like hanging the editors for chopping half of Knowing Me, Knowing You or the full Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! live version (instrumental/dance solo); you can't understand in life why Eagle was put aside, with that great guitar solo... but that's because even those typical low-profile Swedish TV people at that time weren't sure about ABBA's longevity... At the end all you want is more!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Very disappointed in this DVD
Comment: In a nutshell - A lot of useless, boring "FILLER" and very
little "CONCERT". Only diehard ABBA fans should purchase
this DVD; those fans who can't get enough of ABBA in any way,
shape or form. Those who want to sit back and enjoy a
"concert" on DVD should shy away from this piece of work.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Enough Music
Comment: This is probably great for the ABBA fan who wants to learn about the group, but if you are wanting a video of them doing what they do best, you will probably be disappointed. The DVD includes too much stuff that is not ABBA performing. The bits and pieces of their performances that are included are good, but I had hoped for more of a "concert" DVD as the title suggests.
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Summary: Abba
Comment: Very nice.....I attended the concert in 1979 in San Diego, and the disc is very representative of that famous tour.
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