Erik Hassle Covers ‘S.O.S.’ By ABBA

Erik Hassle went out on the porch and covered the ’70s hit ‘S.O.S.’ by . Watch the acoustic performance via his YouTube channel below.

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Ex-ABBA Drummer Ola Brunkert Dead After Apparent Accident

The Associated Press reports former drummer Ola Brunkert was found dead with cuts to his neck in the garden of his house on the Spanish island of Mallorca on Sunday evening. An autopsy indicated the 62-year-old’s death was an accident. A Civil Guard spokesman in Arta said that Brunkert hit his head against a glass door in his dining room, shattering the glass and cutting himself in the neck. After Brunkert wrapped a towel around his neck, he left the house to seek help, but collapsed in the garden. Yahoo.com has since removed the full article.

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ABBA Museum To Open In Stockholm In ’08

Reuters reports that a museum featuring the music, original clothes and instruments of the Swedish pop group will open in Stockholm in 2008, organizers said on Tuesday. “It’s great that someone feels like taking on our musical history and making it accessible,” the group said in a joint statement.

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Madonna Offers Abba Testimonial

has written a testimonial for Abba on the sleeve notes of the group’s ‘Greatest Hits’ album. “Abba’s timeless music continues to inspire me,” the Material Girl gushes. “It’s joyous. Standing still when you hear Abba is impossible. When I started recording my ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ album, Stuart Price (her producer) and I played their music constantly. ‘Hung Up’ is my homage to their contribution to music.”

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Ulvaeus: ABBA Release May Be The Last

Bjorn Ulvaeus told Reuters on Monday (December 5) that had no intention of regrouping. “We believe that what we did then was pretty good,” he explained. “But after, we felt that the energy was running out toward the end of the 1970s, we decided, why should we do a Rolling Stones or a Queen?” Asked whether the new box set of ’s complete studio recordings, featuring nine CDs and two DVDs, would be ’s last commercial offering, he replied: “Absolutely … If you ask me, yes.”

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ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ Voted Best Eurovision Song

The Associated Press reports Swedish pop group ’s catchy ‘Waterloo’ hit that won the European Song Contest 31 years ago has been voted the best song in the event’s history by viewers across the continent.

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ABBA’s Frida Plans Release Of Solo Material

Neil Sean of Sky News reports that Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad, better known simply as Frida of , is releasing remastered editions of her solo albums, in addition to a solo version of ‘Dancing Queen’. “I’m in the studio now and hope to have some new material out in 2006,” Frida told a source, “but I hope fans think I’ve done the epic Dancing Queen justice.”

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Noel Gallagher A Closet ABBA Fan

Oasis star Noel Gallagher tells Channel 4′s ‘Music Hall Of Fame’ he’s a closet fan of . “I wish I’d written ‘SOS’, ‘Waterloo’ and fu**ing ‘Super Trouper’,” he admitted. “They were up there with the best. Abba was a sh** name for a group though.”

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Abba Won’t Re-Form… Even For $2 Billion

Four years ago, Abba were offered one billion dollars to re-form. The answer was “No.” But what if that figure doubled? “No, not even if you did that,” 58-year-old Bjorn Ulvaeus told Reuters. “It is never going to happen again. I think it is a bit too long now. We split up in 1981. People haven’t seen us as a group since then and it would come as such a disappointment to them.”

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Liam, Appletons & Howlett Form ABBA Style Group

The Sun reports Oasis star Liam Gallagher has formed a new group with fiance Nicole , her sister Natalie, and Prodigy’s Liam Howlett, Nat’s hubby. Known as NLLN, Nicole revealed, “We did a song together called ‘Drop The Gun’. Liam screamed so loud we couldn’t hear. We came up with the name just like Abba. But we only do gigs at Liam’s house.” Read more.

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