Abba - In Concert 1979
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Movie Reviews of Abba - In Concert 1979
Movie Review: Abba
Summary: 5 Stars
Very nice.....I attended the concert in 1979 in San Diego, and the disc is very representative of that famous tour.Movie Review: Great concert
Summary: 5 Stars
Sadly, they broke up, but this DVD can take you back to the days when ABBA was on top of the charts.Movie Review: Abba at their best!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you love Abba, you must get this!!!!
It is great. I guarantee you will love it!
Movie Review: ABBA fans will love it
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're an ABBA fan, you'll love this copy. Great sounds and video.Movie Review: Hole in Your Soul
Summary: 4 Stars
What's the best thing about this video? The big choral number "I Have a Dream" joined by what looks like eighty children at Wembley Stadium. Did ABBA find new children in every city in the 1979 tour and train them each briefly on the afternoon of the show? I don't think "I have a Dream" is a very easy number for kids to sing, with that long, held note on "I belieeeeeeve," and yet these kids sail into it like pros. I wonder if any of the 1979 kids grew up and became pop stars themselves? The ones you see on the documentary all look as though spotlights are second nature to them; in the light they seem to grow into ttheir full selves and find a brief happiness before being led off into the shadows of backstage. I wonder if a new documentary, rounding up these kids 30 years later, like that "7 Up" Michael Apted series tracing London schoolchildren into their teens and beyond, could be commissioned by the BBC so that finally we could see what happened to the little angels. I wonder if they were orphans or maybe just professional child actors from some RADA of childhood. Anyway that's one of my great highlights from ABBA IN CONCERT, which must have been filmed, in my estimation, just as "Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man after Midnight)" had been released as a single, and ABBA was in the process of seeking a harder, rockier sound.
Which really shows up in the best numbers here, among them the fiery, eclectically scored SUMMER NIGHT CITY, and perhaps only a little less successfully, HOLE IN YOUR SOUL, which borrows from old school 50s US a cappella groups and the big "Philles" sound of Phil Specter and Jack Nietzsche to create a mobius strip of sound, in which big bursts of guitar alternate with an eerie blast of silence, then the angelic voices of Agnetha and Frida rising to a shout. It's at this period that people were really looking at ABBA and asking themselves, are they the strange ones, or are we? Bjorn and Benny seem to be in constant control of their women, and yet they seem helpless, nearly stupefied, inn the face of so much sex appeal, like the sailors on brave Ulysses' crew, urged to stuff their ears with wax so that they wouldn't hear the sirens' song.