Thank You For The Music - never aired. 1982

ABBAs last ever live performance in front of an audience. From the BBC TV show The Late Late Breakfast Show in late 1982. The show ran out of time and the song was never aired (apart from the first few bars), but it has been rescued from the vaults and is seen here in full.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ABBA

[keftakabab]

Agnetha was a great singer. The most distinctive thing about Abba is her voice. Not to belittle Frida and the others, but most of the hit songs were sung by Agnetha

[woutch]

@keftakabab Not true at all! These are the ranking of biggest hits in Britain with solo leads

FRIDA LEADS

Super Trouper - (no 1)

Knowing Me Knowing You - (no 1)

Fernando - (no 1) 

Money Money Money - (no 3)

So, Frida had THREE ABBA lead No 1s and 4 Top 5 hits In comparison Agnetha had only ONE vocal lead No 1 (The Winner Takes It All) and ONE other top five hit (One Of Us - No. 3)

Please back up your facts when you say "most of the hit songs were sung by Agnetha".

[RoseDelfineValentine]

@woutch You have right for a "commercial" reason.. Frida sung more than Agnetha in this case.. but i think keftakabab just say "Agnetha song much more in all ABBA discography" - in fact, is true! I really hear her voice much more than Frida One. Obviously each other are SUPER, in two different ways: Frida have deep, mature and sophisticated voice, Agnetha has sweet, kind, more "childish" voice.. Together these women make the history of ABBA. At least, they are super women.

[woutch]

@RoseDelfineValentine Oh, totally agree with you. I adore both singers equally. They are incredibly unique. It's just I was defending facts. He said most of the "HIT" songs were sung by Agnetha, and this is not true!

[michaelleacy]

@woutch Don't forget, Frida also sang "I Have a Dream" (no.2 - and also one of thier biggest selling singles)

[woutch]

@michaelleacy You're right. But when I realised the mistake I remembered that I left out Agnetha's No. 3 hit Gimme Gimme Gimme, so with Frida's I Have A Dream added it still puts Frida lead vocals higher than Agnetha's when it comes to the "bigger hits"!

[ABBACRAZY]

The BBC have made a number of Cock Up's - EG: erasing rare performances & TV shows, One of the biggest must be cutting this show short. Just who was the idiot that did not allow this live edition of The Late Late Breakfast Show to over-run it's time slot by just a matter of 50 seconds?

Now nearly 27 years on we can finally see the performance in full.

At least Aunty did not wipe this tape - But it shoud have been aired in full in the first place - Thanks so much for uploading - A real Gem

[TheVestini]

What a treat -Thankyou so much for posting it.

[therock19]

Its really sad you can tell there not happy and just ready to move on and go there seprate ways.

[shinymensdressshoes]

What's that piece of string around Agnetha's head?? Looks like a curtain cord or whiskey bottle tassel.  Lol.

[msdemos]

Years from now we will learn the truth about ABBA.....that they and their music were sent down from the heavens to save us all from ourselves.........well........­...either that, or they just happened to end up being one of the GREAT pop bands of all time; one that gave us ALL so much great music to be thankful for!

[tandlaguilera420]

Wow you can really see the uncomfortableness between Frida and Benny here.

[Agnethafrid]

If yoy watch the Abba story from 1999 Frida admits she was envious of the choice of Agnetha for the leads very gracious of her to admit and she recently said she wished her voice was like Agnethas and she admired her as asinger more than anyone else! very very gracious of her! lovely lady Frida is! and Agnetha is always praising Frida in interviews also re her work on stage dancing her voice and one of her favourite Abba songs being lead by Frida Our last summer x.

[Agnethafrid]

1 S.O.S 2 Name of the game,3 Take a chance on me,4 Chiquita,5 Gime Gime,6 Winner takes, 7 Lay all your love,8 One of us, 9 Head over heels, 10 The day before you came,11 Under attack,12 Thankyou for the music ! all leads by Agnetha. Frida also did some solo passages on Name of Game but most was done by Agnetha!

[Agnethafrid]

Hi i agree that Agnetha did most of the leads on the Abba hits thats fact! if you go through the list she did 12 leads to Fridas 5! the rest shared but Abba had 19 no.1 singles not 9!!!! you must be talking just about u.k only! which is only one country! i also agree that Agnethas voice was the strongest force in Abba! x.