Frida Finds her Father

• 1978 important news for Frida newspaper articles had discovered and printed articles concerning her child hood and the story of a German soldier who was said to have deserted her Mother, and was also thought to have died when returning home from Germany when the ship sank.
  
  The story appeared in a German Magazine and was read by Andrea Buchinger an ABBA fan who recognised the name Alfred Haase, she had a uncle of that name and knew that she had an uncle of that name and that he had spent time in Norway during the war, she phoned her cousin Peter and asked he father if he had ever heard of Syni Lyngstad,it soon became apparent that Alfred Haase was indeed Anni -Frid Lygnstad`s father ,a Reunion followed.
  
  A Platinum Album !!
   

• Weeks before ABBA the Album was released it was certain to be ABBA`s biggest UK success as advance orders exceeded £1.000.000 guaranteeing it immediate platinum status , it entered the chart at number one and remained there for nine weeks.
   

• ABBA the Movie premiered on February 16th 1978 at London's Warner West End Cinema.
   

• ABBA together with their musicians and technical people travelled throughout Australia in a Boeing 727, the 30 or so tons of cargo had been transported to Australia in three Hercules planes.
   

• In Sweden children doing newspaper rounds were given a Gold flexi disk called ABBA live 77 for Christmas , it featured five tracks from various concerts including Waterloo, Fernando, Money Money Money, Rock me ,and Why did it have to be me another great idea from Polar Music.
   

• ABBA made no financial profit from the Australian tour.
   

• When ABBA made there first appearance in Australia at the Sydney Showground Arena it was pouring with rain, over 20,000 people turned out to see them perform during the song Waterloo Anni-Frid slipped on the wet stage and found herself sitting on her bottom.
  
   

• Every single day approximately 3300 ABBA records are sold from record stores around the World.
  
   
• Since the first half of the Seventies that over 280 million ABBA CDs records and tapes have been sold.