I have loved ABBA since I first heard them as a kid in the 70’s. They are so purely uplifting. ⭐️
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It has been months since I’ve listened to music for hours and sang along. Last weekend I spent 4 hours listening to music, singing and dancing while I decluttered and cleaned. I forgot how much joy and deep feelings music can bring. What a beautiful part of the human experience!!! ❤ 🎶
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My partner and I, when we came back from visits to see her Mom, up in the mountains outside of Asheville, we would have the truck windows down, after dark on the Interstate in North Carolina, hot air and humidity pouring in, and ABBA playing on the CD so loud! We both knowing every word, singing as freedom to all the harmonies and back vocals. She passed just two years ago and it’s bittersweet now to hear them, even tho I still Love her and ABBA… they really are kind of timeless… yea?! I love you all… 🎼 the great uniter
4 months ago | 4
I flew from Canada with my husband, adult son and 90 year old mother to London and ABBA Voyage was on our list. It was the same as you describe. We all felt it. The movement of song and dance and memories. The words the poetry so much more powerful now as I too at 63 have lived and felt a lifetime. My Mother, who back in the day was not a Wild fan felt very close to my deceased Dad as he loved ABBA right from the first moment he heard them on the radio.. she could feel his energy there. Living the joy that was moving through her… through us.. through the crowd. ABBA transcended time and still holds to the moment. So wonderful you experience all of that. It’s incredible!✨✨✨🙏🏻
4 months ago | 5
I’m sitting in a parking lot, having picked up some iced coffee (drive through America) and decided to check my messages. Amanda—you and your beaming face—standing tall and oh, so beautiful, in front of the ABBA lights. As I read your message, I felt SO deeply the Heart of Life. The passage of time. The music that had assauged my heart through tough times. Too, the music that virtually has carried me into the love and hope of being ALIVE! Dancing through sorrow. Dancing through joy. The music, the musicians, the lyrics that you share with me and so many others has been a vital part of your work with us. Last night I was spending time with a dear a dear friend who is going through so much. We played music via Spotify for which serendipitously brought peace, beauty and eventual sleep to us both. He tentatively said aloud, “I want to go to a Jackson Browne concert.” I was SO happy for him—that he wanted that experience. ❤ Lately I’ve been feeling a kind of gratitude for Life, a depth that I I struggle to express in words. And I’m a writer! Maybe, just maybe the radical tumult unfolding in this world is offering each of us an opportunity to stretch our hearts even more. To live day by day, adding our own flavor of kindness and love to truly create a more loving world. 🌎
4 months ago | 12
Abba's music, vocals and also their personalities, for me as a swede, stands for values from my childhood. Their roots comes from Swedish folk music. Authentic, for the people, with a sprinkle of pop.❤
4 months ago | 8
🪩 so glad you got to feel the beat of the tambourine as a family! 🕺🏻 ABBA Forev
4 months ago | 9
Born in 1965 and grew up on ABBA! They got me through the hard times! How wonderful for you and your family! Blessings ❤.
4 months ago | 5
Jealous. Their songs reverberate in the brain. Those days when music was...❤🙏
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How absolutely adorable to see you Amanda!! looking so full of happiness and enjoying yourself with your daughter. You cannot buy such pure joy ✨️
4 months ago | 5
You look radiant! Much deserved night out with phenomenal music.
4 months ago | 6
What an incredibly beautiful post ❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing your ABBA experience Amanda. Much Love!!
4 months ago | 7
"And you make me talk... and you make me feel... and you make me show.. what I'm trying to conceal" -"The Name of the Game" all time fav
4 months ago | 0
Had the great joy of seeing them live in Dublin at the peak of their success ! Many many years ago now but remains one of the best nights of my life. I adored them still do ! Unique, a one off, will never be matched !
4 months ago | 2
Thank you for putting into words what I and so many more feel! Love from Sweden
4 months ago | 3
ABBA will always be timeless!! Their songs bring back so many memories over the years for me, as a fan!! Glad you enjoyed it Amanda! Love & Blessings 🙏🫂
4 months ago | 4
My favourite song of ABBA, among many others when I was little girl, is called Dancing Queen! I love that song and still do today! 😊🤗❤💜🩶
4 months ago | 1
Amanda Ellis
“You feel bad, let me tell you, we all get the blues
Sometimes life is a burden, way down in your shoes
When it’s bad, worse, worst (And when you’re feeling so bad)
And you think you’re cursed (And you’ve got it sad)
Well, if there’s one thing for the better that can turn you loose, It’s got to be rock and roll to fill the hole in your soul”….
ABBA what can I say - other than that I cried from the depths of nowhere the tears flowed - a mixture of deep damn gratitude for all they have given, that a soundtrack to so many of our lives was there in front of a packed audience decades on, that music lives on, that our bodies get older but up there in the lights another version of us still dances, intermingled with who we are now.
The past and present combined, the absolute love for 4 people so pure in intention, music channeled from another realm, sweet angelic voices, beautiful lighting, technology, magic, simply taken to a new land of hope and dreams and promise, whilst reflection on deep poignancy and reflection of all that has passed.
When it ended I actually felt as though I had run an emotional personal marathon, I could hardly speak, wanting to somehow hold on to what felt like a transcendent experience to myself just for a few moments more.
I dabbed my eyes, turned to my daughter who was born decades after ABBA was born and said did you like it, and could see the same awestruck beauty in her face. She said she had a lump in her throat throughout the whole thing.
Jon who never gets emotional at anything such as this was also visibly moved, we all were.
So yes to joy and fun and happiness- but the deep bits hit like a laser in the dark, I truly hadn’t foreseen that.
It touched a ‘hole in my soul’ I didn’t know felt so unfed and empty.
Thank you for the music, however we owe them so much more than that.
As they sing:
I still have faith in you
I see it now
Through all these years that faith lives on
Somehow
There was a union
Of heart and mind
The likes of which are rare
And, oh, so hard to find
We do have it in us
New spirit has arrived
The joy and the sorrow
We have a story and it survived
I now understand why people go again… and again #abbavoyage #simplylove
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