Fans are celebrating 50 years since ABBA won its first big battle with “Waterloo.” The Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.”
Members of Swedish group ABBA and close associates celebrate the victory of their song “ Waterloo ” in the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, April 6, 1974. Fans are celebrating 50 years since ABBA won its first big battle with “ Waterloo .” …A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo , Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.
” The song rang out again Saturday at London’s Waterloo railway station - also named after the 1815 battle that dealt defeat to the French leader - where a choir belted out a rendition for commuters. In the English coastal town of Brighton, where the 1974 competition was held, fans were staging a flashmob dance and silent ABBA disco to mark the anniversar
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