Discrepancies:

• When (supposedly) ABBA's Qantas jet lands at the airport it is still broad daylight, yet ABBA's flight was scheduled to arrive at 9.15pm when it is dark in Sydney in early March. Many parents had taken their young kids dressed ready for bed in their pyjamas just to greet ABBA at the airport which was widely mentioned in the press at the time.
   
• When ABBA first appear before the cameras and Björn asks "what do you want us to do?", you hear the bodyguard shoo away a cameraman telling him the "press conference is tomorrow" which was true enough (the press conference was at 11.30am the morning after ABBA arrived). Yet when Ashley asks a photographer what time ABBA are arriving, he is told "9 o'clock I think" which was also approximately correct.
   
• In the first few minutes of the film when you see ABBA's black car leaving the airport, the car has Victorian number plates (Sydney is actually in the Australian state of New South Wales) and yet the next shot of the car being guided by the blonde bodyguard shows a car with a Western Australian number plate (where Perth is). These bits are better viewed by Australians who know what to look for in an Antipodean number plate and is only really noticeable on the big screen.
   
• When Ashley discovers that ABBA have left the airport, he's told he'll just have to wait for the press conference ("it's on in half an hour") which completely conflicts with what the bodyguard just said to the cameraman that the press conference is tomorrow.
   
• When Ashley is driving from Sydney Airport to the hotel, he's caught in a traffic jam on the northern approach to the Sydney Harbour Bridge when both the airport and Kings Cross are south of the bridge (which also means he didn't *need* to cross the bridge anyway!).
   
• Ashley *is* in the right lane when another driver tells him he's in the *wrong* jam for Kings Cross!
   
• After all that, he is seen driving under the north approach to the bridge where he started off being in the jam in the first place!
   
• Although Robert Hughes identify as an actor was kept from the ABBA team, the scenes on the steps of the Sydney Opera House must have been when he was sussed.   You see Thomas Johansson move over behind ABBA to deal with Ashley and in the next shot there is a very obvious cameraman zooming in on Ashley's attempts to talk to ABBA and he's standing right behind Benny.
   
• In "Tiger", Agnetha's fringe is sometimes wide apart, other times hanging straight.
   
• In "SOS" and "Rock Me", Agnetha's plait keeps disappearing (as does the scarf around her neck!) eg. in "SOS" she starts the song with her gold scarf hanging down on both sides of her neck, yet when she turns to sing the first chorus, it's flipped over her shoulder.
   
• During "Money Money Money", Agnetha turns her back on the audience and she has a plait, yet when she's shown in close-up before turning around, the plait has turned into a ponytail.
   
• After "Money Money Money" when the fireworks are going off, Agnetha and Frida are shown running from (or is it to?) the stage wearing completely different outfits to the ones they had just been shown wearing.
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• At the end of "Mamma Mia" when the camera is focussing on Agnetha's bottom, she's wearing a plait which turns into a ponytail and then disappears altogether in the space of ten seconds!
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• Both Agnetha and Frida's golden scarves keep disappearing throughout "He Is Your Brother"
   
• When Ashley arrives in "Adelaide", it's actually Melbourne Airport you seen.
   
• When the "Adelaide" concert is being set up (stage being constructed, guitars being tuned and Benny trying out the seating), most of the footage is from Sydney, as is most of the crowd footage racing to their seats. However, the clip where tickets are being taken is from Melbourne!
   
• In Waterloo" Frida's bolero jacket disappears on the line "is always repeating itself" but reappears straight afterwards.
   
• Throughout the on-stage performance of "Thank You For the Music" Agnetha's headband keeps disappearing; Frida's golden cap keeps disappearing and Francis Matthews' neck scarf keeps changing position.
   
• Agnetha looks rather windswept at the start of "I've Been Waiting For You" when they're supposedly in Perth. Yet Perth was the only INSIDE venue of the tour so this shot would have been filmed at any of the other three venues.
   
• At the start of "Rock Me" (supposedly performed in Perth), there is a young blond curly-haired boy seen in the audience. The same guy is seen as Björn introduces "Dancing Queen" (in Melbourne!) at the end of the film.
   
• The man in the crowd wearing a red anorak and singing along to "Rock Me" singing the words "wannabe, wannabe, wannabe") looks like he's had a drenching which would have happened at the Sydney concert, yet in the film this scene comes when they're supposedly indoors at one of the Perth concerts. You see the same guy in the front row of the Sydney concert changing "We want ABBA!" before the show starts while backstage discussions continue over the rain problems.
   
• The hotel room scene (supposedly in Perth reading the "Sydney Review"!) was filmed at The Sheraton Hotel in Stockholm. Agnetha was mid-way through her pregnancy at this point and so you don't see much more than her head.
   
• The newspaper headline that's read out actually read "Agnetha's Bottom Tops DULL show" but a carefully placed thumb leaves the majority of the audience in the dark. Frida's face of thunder is a picture in this scene and her reaction to all the talk about Agnetha's bottom is clear for all to see - she seems irritated by it. However, in the widescreen version, you see much more of Frida and she doesn't look quite as miserable as she comes across on the "pan and scan" video version. her comical reaction to the definition of "kinky" is a treat in widescreen.
   
• During the hotel room scene, music can be heard in the background (which is thought to be the track 'Stoned' as listed on the UK release of the movie on video), but before the tune is a radio jingle for *Sydney* radio station 2SM.
   
• One of the biggest discrepancies of the whole film is that according to the movie, ABBA's tour went from Sydney, to Perth, to Adelaide and ended in Melbourne. The real tour went from Sydney to Melbourne, Adelaide and ended in Perth making it far more sense geographically and economically (and yet the official synopsis lists the venues in the order that they actually happened).
   
• Another major discrepancy is that Ashley is in Melbourne when he interviews ABBA (notwithstanding the fact that their actual final venue was in Perth!) ... and yet he has to make his way to the radio station which, presumably is in Sydney where he started off (the clue here is that the Sydney radio station 2TW starts with a "2" which all the radio stations in New South Wales used to start with, as did the postal codes).
   
• Ashley's taxi journey only takes him approximately 30 minutes (based on the times shown on the clocks through the taxi window, and the fact his show is due to start at 7.30pm). However, a car ride from Melbourne to Sydney would take more like 12 hours and be horribly expensive since it's approximately 870km by the shortest route.
   
• The biggest confusion of all surrounds Ashley's successful interview with ABBA at the end of the film. Having left ABBA's hotel, you see him walk despondently to HIS hotel lift having been told they have left for the airport.  So what the hell are they doing in Ashley's hotel lift?