I once got in trouble on a BBC radio programme for describing The Beatles as ‘just a psychedelic Abba’.
I had a knack for saying the completely right wrong thing as a broadcaster at the time…
Witness ‘Daniel O’Donnell is so middle of the road he should be run over…’
It was all just too much for the fey little self-vaping backroom luvvies at the British Boring Corporation and my talking head career was finally decapitated.
(It was my thoughts on Britain’s ‘poor’ farmers that did me in – I live in a farming community, so I know that many ‘poor’ farmers actually live in country piles set in acres of green and pleasant land, drive Range Rovers and wobble around on top of their pet horses for an hour every evening. Yep, the Ban Banksy Corporation objected!)
I think the BBC misunderstood me though, why am I not allowed to say ABBA are better than the Beatles – certainly Agnetha was sexier – to me anyway – than Paul and Benny had a nicer nose than Ringo!
AND – wait for it! Wait for it! The grand band of pop schlock are back in the public eye with their ABBA Voyage event will begin in London on 27 May. It is a full concert experience, performed by ABBA avatars (ABBAtars)
So, here’s where ABBA stand in this ol’ rocker’s top ten bands … enjoy!
#abba #beatles #paulmcartney #ringostarr #georgeharrison #johnlennon #agnetha #voyage #abbavoyage
