Saturday 7 May 2005 on NBC (was Sunday 8 May 2005 the further east you go in the US)
ABBA performed SOS (live vocals over existing backing track) and Waterloo on a set that was supposed to represent the inside of a large boat (probably the Titanic). More and more water was joked to be coming through the hole and the boat started to sink.
NBC's Saturday Night (now known as "Saturday Night Live") is a comedy sketch show that has been
running since October 1975. ABBA's appearance was episode five. Other
guests on this episode were Robert Klein (host), Loudon Wainwright III, Greg
Allman and The Muppets..
ABBA was the only musical act to ever lip-sync on this show - as pointed
out during the Waterloo
performance! (Apparently that's changed now as Ashley Simpson did it
in 2005).
Click here to see rehearsal pictures ALERT!! Don't you think the stances in these rehearsal pictures looks like they were rehearsing "Honey Honey"?
Thanks to Yuri, Gjelt de Graaf, Rod Kirkman & Ian Cole. Extra thanks to Bill Paganucci, Edward Viveiros, Jr, Jozsef, Melinda, Ken Griffin, Sam Shervz, Steve Layton and Scarlett Ray c/o ABBAMAIL