goldfinger Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 The Beatles as an entity virtually ended in January 1970. The pressures had been building, John was entering a very surreal.. avante guard phase with the way out artist Yoko... in a way the break up had to happen. Around that time over in Sweden two very talented guys were getting together to write songs. ... In age they were nt that far away from Paul.. Bjorn is only 18 months or so younger ! So they were basically from the same generation.. but obviously late developers. The 60s had been male dominated... music and songs performed and sung by guys for an army of teenage girls who were the main buyers of pop music. Abba ... very unusually, decided to go with female vocals.... the guys were content to put Frida and Agnetha up front while they played guitar and keyboards in the background. The formula worked and they became a massive world wide success... rivalling the Beatles... but never quite cracking America where the real big money was to be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I can't believe Abba is the most commercially successful artist of the 1970's, but that's just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 who said they were the most commercially successful band of the '70s? I believe they'd be up there, but other bands, like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, they were very commercial and very successful in the '70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 I would say Zeppelin would be up on that list of most commercially successful bands of the 70s. Especially since almost every album of theirs went diamond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 who said they were the most commercially successful band of the '70s? I believe they'd be up there, but other bands, like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, they were very commercial and very successful in the '70s. but mostly in the US (and Canada) I believe... example for the Eagles, "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)": * US: 29× Platinum * CAN: 20× Platinum * UK: Platinum and probably less in other European countries or Australia (where it didn't even chart) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 who said they were the most commercially successful band of the '70s? I believe they'd be up there, but other bands, like the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, they were very commercial and very successful in the '70s. Commercial sales are in terms of albums sold, concerts and merchandise revenue. I don't have all the data info, except for album sales. Albums sold in millions (worldwide) Abba - 370 Eagles - 120 Fleetwood Mac - 100 Other 70s artists like Queen, Elton John, Bee Gees, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder, etc. have also sold more albums than Eagles and F.Mac, though not all of those albums are from the 70's decade. Abba is the 4th best selling artist ever, behind Beatles, Elvis, and Michael Jackson. [small][source: wikipedia][/small] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfinger Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 aBBA generated an excitement... on a par with the Beatles and brought out huge crowds wherever they appeared ( esp in Australia ) Their albums were an event and eagerly anticipated by their fans ... a la the Beatles. The Beatles were really a " supergroup " with 3 brilliant songwriters in their ranks... as were the Moody Blues as were Fleetwood mac in the 80s So much writing talent packed into those groups was always going to generate brilliant albums and mass following at concerts. Abba's songwriters Benny and Bjorn were the more conventional type of writers... Benny wrote the melody and Bjorn put words to the melody. The melodies just seemed to come into Benny's head .. as with Waterloo... he put the melody on casette... Bjorn took it home and after a few listens and a few glasses of whisky he put some words to the tune. Elton John is different, he needs words.. some lyrics or rhyme to inspire his melody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfinger Posted December 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 quote Abba is the 4th best selling artist ever, behind Beatles, Elvis, and Michael Jackson end quote thats awesome, to think that Micheal Jackson outsold even Abba ... ! just makes you realise how phenomenally popular that guy was out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Pa Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Hows about these guys: Grand Funk Railroad. 10 gold and platnum albums in less than 5 years. 1969- 1 gold, 1 platnum 1970- 2 multi platnums 1971- 2 platnum 1972- 2 gold 1973- 1 platnum 1974- 1 gold 2- Back to back #1 singles, 1973 & 74 1971- Sold out Shea stadium in 72 hours. (Took the Beatles 7 weeks) Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 And they (Grand Funk) have an incredibly personable drummer, as Carl found out in his interview. Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 I LOVE Grand Funk's drumming. It's pretty intense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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