Location: London or Stockholm
Broadcast: Saturday 5 May 2001, BBC2, UK
Release status: Unreleased
Duration: Full programme 48:52, ABBA segment 7:30
Shown in: UK, Australia & Sweden
This was a UK music documentary series in 2001, including 8 episodes of 50 minutes length, a BBC production in association with Bravo, the film arts network.
Björn and Michael B. Tretow took part in the final programme of a series of eight analysing various aspects of the music industry. The episode was narrated by actor Clive Owen.
The episodes in the series were:
Michael demonstrated Dancing Queen by playing the backing track coming together track by track (first the drums, guitars, piano, etc). Incredible sound.
Björn described the sound of Agnetha and Frida's voices together as "amazing" and we headr a bit of the backing track - goose pimple time!
Broadcast information:
Saturday 5 May 2001, BBC2, UK (where it was also known as The Story of Pop)
USA (where it was known as Popular Song: Soundtrack of the Century)
27 January 2005, Australia
w/c 28 April 2006 on ABC, Australia
Sweden, SVT2
Thanks to Rudolf Ondrich, Jan Bach, Steve Layton, Jozsef, Harold Hanlon and Ian Cole and George Lewycky c/o ABBAMAIL (no longer online).
YouTube clip c/o Stephen Layton