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ABBA: Bang a Boomerang tells the inside story of Australia's
colossal 70s crush on the Swedish supergroup ABBA and
their music, and how this unequalled and enduring fan-worship
changed them and us forever.ABC's innovative music
program Countdown and its host Molly Meldrum were
instrumental in bringing ABBA to a burgeoning mid-70s
television audience looking for something different. It was
due to Countdown that Mamma Mia was released as a single,
first in Australia and then the world, and the ABBA phenomenon
was born. Viewers were going into record shops wanting to
buy the single. Molly rang RCA records asking about the
release of Mamma Mia and was told there were no plans to
do so."We then played it again in defiance and they had no
option but to release it... it was lucky, it went to number one,"
Meldrum said.ABBA: Bang a Boomerang digs deep into
heartfelt memories, cardboard cartons of memorabilia,
face-to-face encounters, local pop icon recounts, lavish
personal and public ABBA museums and Australia's rich
media archives to relive a moment of collective national
'craziness', when we did literally go ABBA mad. The result
is a warm, bright, captivating engagement with ABBA's
time Down Under that will remind us all of the band's
impact and how our open-hearted embrace of all things
ABBA would eventually define us. One in three Australian
households owned an ABBA record - from Prime
Minister Fraser to eight year olds around the nation,
we were hooked even if some of us didn't want to admit
it back then and we didn't realise the crush would be
for keeps.