June 18th 1815
Wiki entry on the
Battle of Waterloo
Charge of the British Heavy Cavalry
From the 1970 release Waterloo
Always loved this old country tune:
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
And this reminds me of elle. -sigh-
Waterloo - ABBA
(description w/ vid)
Waterloo was recorded in Dec 1973. Abba chose it over Hasta Manana to be the Swedish entry for Eurovision 1974, as it was a happy uptempo rocking song with rhythm and energy, and all the group sing. Stig Anderson took a demo tape on holiday to the Canary Isles. Stig agonised for a week to find the right title, then produced the original Swedish lyrics in a few hours, constructing a story of Waterloo as a metaphor for a girl surrendering to the love of a suitor. The rest is history, it was the first time Sweden had won Eurovision. The song rapidly became a worldwide hit after this huge success in Brighton in April 1974, reaching no. 1 in England on May 4 1974. This tv performance is from November 1974.
When I hear or read about Napoleon, I think back to some grafitti I saw at the Canadian, TX. h.s. that read:
"This is where Napoleon pulled his Bonaparte."
June 18, 2010
Waterloo
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Elle sent me a photo of her at 17 where she worked at a fine china shop; she was the spittin' image of the blonde chick in ABBA. (Forget her name, not that I ever really knew it. I've researched the group, read about them, but I can't recall the Swedish names).
I've read that the group could speak very little English and they memorized the lyrics by rote.
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