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Filmed December 1976
Location Polar Music offices, Baldersgaten, Stockholm, Sweden
Broadcast SVT, Sweden
small part was briefly used in "ABBAMania 2", ITV2, December 2004, UK
Released This clip has been released officially on the Arrival Deluxe Edition
Notes ABBA are interviewed around a table at their offices in Stockholm and asked about their success all over the world in three short years.  One of the interviewers is British DJ Richard Skinner who was interviewing them on behalf of American radio. Stig was also interviewed and listed sales volumes country by country (including over 800,000 for "Arrival" in Australia)

ABBA also model the "Keep Australia Beautiful" t-shirts for the Australian "Keep Australia Beautiful" campaign.  They are photographed in the Polar offices by Bengt H. Malmqvist (who died in 2008).  The TV advert didn't feature ABBA live/moving at all, it was just the shot taken in the Stockholm offices with a voice over saying "ABBA support Keep Australia Beautiful and know that those of you who love your country will do the same". The ad had Tropical Loveland playing underneath.



They are also seen giving voice samples to accompany the ABBA cartoon project that was in its infancy (and never got further than Happy Hawaii and Money, Money, Money.) During the report, we see a handful of stills from this project

Benny & Björn are shown playing piano and guitar respectively at the beginning and end of the report.  Firstly, they play "Jingle Bells" and they end with a snippet of a brand new song called "Thank You For The Music".

Extra scenes not included in this Rapport piece, were included in the Japanese programme "Ohayo 700" where they were interviewed by the "Ohayo 700" reporter Bosse. In that report, Bosse handed over the score of the "Ohayo 700" theme tune and Agnetha and Frida tried to sing it in Japanese and Björn and Benny tried to play it.

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Credits Thanks to Rod Kirkman, Ian Cole, Jeff Chandler, Julie Rickwood, Sam Shervz, Reiko, Mayumi Taheri and Robin Andersson
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