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This is the place where we will post your stories about the Green's Playhouse, The Glasgow Apollo and Satelitte City (The Wee Apollo). As it develops we will break the stories up into sections such as Myths, Gigs I missed, Meeting the Bands, Where are they now etc. No story too trivial and we will only edit out bad language!

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The ABBA gig was the culmination of a grand day out for me and a couple of pals. We sat in the main stand to see Rangers beat Dundee Utd (3-2 as I recall), then had a high tea at the Blue Lagoon before going up to the Apollo. There we discovered that we were the youngest people there - it seemed to be all old women in fur coats and men who wouldn't have gone within a hundred miles of the Apollo normally.
It was a great gig at the time, and though I soon realised that ABBA didn't rock, nostalgia means the songs still sound okay.
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To try and review ABBA's two magical performances at the Apollo would be for me impossible. Getting tickets for them was almost impossible I got mine for Christmas and when the day of the 1977 concert came about they had just hit number one with Knowing Me Knowing You.

The concert started with the sound of a helicopter coming into land and then the thunderous intro to "Tiger" the curtain then went up and the two girls were there in these beautiful gold capes that reflected light right to the back of the hall.

The show finished with a mini musical and I gave Frida a bunch of flowers. It was the most magical moment of my life.

One thing I must say is that the bouncers were really nice to me and even held me up (I was a wee 14 year old) and let me take pictures of them all.

I was at a few concerts at the Apollo but none ever bet those two magical nights in 1977 and 1979. Abba were arguably the biggest act ever to play in Scotland and even wrote Supertrouper about it!!

Love from

Charlie and Stephen xxx
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I was 17 years of age when I saw ABBA for the first time! It was the experience of a life time. ABBA were at there height in in 1977 and to get a ticket was ws like gold dust. The show was 2 hours+ of sheer brilliance and perfect pop! To like ABBA in those days was like admitting to comitting murder. Thankfully as the years have progressed ABBA have been given the credibility they deserved and the musical talent created by Bjorn and Benny has moved on to other projects which have been sucessful in  other spheres other than pop! My opinion is there will never be a group to upstage ABBA and the pop perfection they made together! I also saw ABBA in 1979 and they were again wonderfull and produced a perfect " Greatest Hits" show. Long live ABBA's music !

Regards Stephen
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But an friend saw ABBA in 1977 in london but he told me that it was just like an beatles concert. ABBA to me were pop perfections like the beatles But I do have an cd of ABBA live 1977-1979 that I've copied my self incuding a song that I really like As good as new live in stockholm 1979. But its sad that there was not an proper live video or dvd with an etire concert. But I know that there was a full concert filmed. But sadly the ABBA bigwigs doin't want to us to see one at all But we want it [reply]
 
 
 
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