Abba rescue their career

September 1975: Number 19 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of pop musicIn April 1974, Abba won the Eurovision song contest with Waterloo and the world fell for the Swedish band's charms, the song turning into a global hit. But their future success was far from certain: to the public, they looked like classic Euro one-hit-wonders.But Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus had a trump card. Holed up in Stockholm in August 74, they'd written SOS – its title the work of manager Stig A...

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