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, ...

On April 6, 1974, Swedish pop band ABBA won the 19th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the English seaside town of Brighton. Nobody expected the five strangely dressed Swedes with a song about Napoleon ...

Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut, the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest, but ...

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What starts as a flashy Eurovision performance quickly becomes one of the most important turning points in modern pop music history. In 1974, Eurovision was still largely a conservative competition ...

According to the survey, commissioned by the UK’s National Army Museum, just under half of Britons associate the name “Waterloo” with the eponymous Abba song. The Swedish band’s iconic hit compares a ...

On March 6, 1974, the Swedish pop band ABBA won the 19th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the English seaside resort of Brighton. Nobody expected the five strangely dressed Swedes with a song about ...

Fans of the Swedish supergroup ABBA gathered Saturday in England, Sweden and elsewhere to celebrate the hit song "Waterloo" on the 50th anniversary of its victory at the annual Eurovision Song Contest ...

In the second part of our guide to the Battle of Waterloo, fought exactly 200 years ago, we look at the role played by faulty maps, Scottish cavalry – and 15,000 Soviet actors – in Napoleon’s demise.