Lordy.
Her Serene Highness Princess Reuss, Countess of Plauen - better known to you and I as Frida Lyngstad from Abba is 80 years old today!
Her phenomenal success as one-quarter of one of the world's most successful bands of all time, as well as her rocky love life with Benny (prior to becoming a solo singer in the 1980s and a Princess, to boot), is well-documented.
Less well-known, perhaps, is the fact she was a major star in her own right long before the foursome ever recorded together. Here, having just won the Swedish New Faces, is Frida's first television appearance:
Here she is in 1970, with a rather good rendition of one of gayest of gay anthems by The Master, Noel Coward:
And, speaking of "gay", here's her hilarious version of Baby Love - with two of the campest backing singer/dancers ever to grace a stage! I never tire of this clip:
Many happy returns, Your Highness! Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad (born 15th November 1945).
I do like her rendition of Mad about the Boy - the accent lends itself well!
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I love it too - but you cannot beat the sheer hilarity of Baby Love... Jx
DeleteChrist! Those "Baby Love" Safety Gays are certainly something. (I thought they were going to be crap when I saw them counting in at the beginning.)
ReplyDeleteThey're utterly perfect! I love it. Jx
DeleteIs she wearing any knickers in that first photo?
ReplyDeleteShe's giving her cunt an airing.
DeleteMistress: "Can you see what I see?" Jx
DeleteMitzi: Don't talk about Benny like that! 😂 Jx
DeleteI'll never understand proud to be grey women like her.
ReplyDeleteShe's 80. I forgive her. Jx
DeleteWell, ok then! xoxo
ReplyDeleteNot sure that means you like Frida or you don't, Savvy? Jx
DeleteWhat fun!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is that! Jx
DeleteHer singing on Baby Love is pretty earthbound, but her backup ladies more than made up for that. They put the gay in Safety Gays.
ReplyDeleteGotta love those Swedish Queens! Jx
DeleteOk! That Baby Love clip made the whole post!!!!! A side I have never seen of her. What a treat.
ReplyDeleteI knew you'd love it! Jx
DeleteIkke verst for en krigsbarn fra Norge, som gjord det bra i Sverige /
ReplyDeleteNot bad for a war baby from Norway 🇳🇴, who made good in Sweden 🇸🇪 :)
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Anni är så begåvad.
DeleteLove her rendition of Baby Love with her “safety gays” Hasse Burman and Lennie Norman on the then popular Charlie Norman show of Sweden.
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Glad you enjoyed it - and thanks for heads-up on the names of those "safety gays"..! Jx
DeleteWere those guys gay?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmm... Jx
Delete...asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteNo, singer Hasse Burman (1926-2020) was married with a child, comedian Lennie Norman (1948- )was musician Charlie Norman’s (1920-2005) son and is married with two children. Lennie is the blond and Charlie is playing the piano.
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They were bloody good impressionists, then. Jx
DeleteShe was always my fave ABBA.
ReplyDeletePure class as your videos prove
Baby Love was hysterically funny I roared with laughter all the way through.
Happy birthday Princess Reuss, Countess of Plauen
Pure class - and a wicked sense of camp, to boot! Jx
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