ABBA at Dick Cavett Show

First part of the 1981 ABBA Interview. One of my favorites!!* =) Enjoy...!!*

[@misterhoeflak]

Dick Cavett is such a class act. He understands the art of making an interview interesting for the interviewee, as well as the audience. Pretty much every other Abba interview I've ever seen they get asked stock questions and give stock answers.

[@susanduva1088]

This is the first time I ever heard Abba speak I like there accents it's very nice up the irons!! maiden manic🎸🎶🎶🎵🎵✨✨✨🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@saloabad]

I love Agnetha and Frida accents!!!! they sound so cute!

[@Rossion64]

Frida was always my favourite ❤

[@Jernmik]

Abba created some very good music and seemed short changed in America. They were a force to be reckoned with.

[@jonisafreak3]

I couldn’t imagine how good a prime live ABBA concert would be like. One can only dream.

[@nycanti]

an interviewer with intelligence, respect and wit

[@michaelrochester48]

Dick Cavett respected rock ‘n’ roll and pop and had many rock ‘n’ roll pop and country singers on his show on ABC and PBS in the 1970s

[@courtneyboulds]

He was really good friends with Janis Joplin, he really was awesome for rock and roll.

[@poppypicks]

Agnetha is fiddling with her hands, she is soooo shy- N'aawww I love that woman

[@robbedontuesday]

What is the thing with your last name??.

[@pattibrooks1907]

I really love watching videos of Abba on You Tube ! Thank you very much for the awesome video ! I have been watching them on You Tube since 2008 wheh I got my first Lap Top computer and before that tapes records and CDS ! I am now 65 years old as of April 22nd !

[@davidhowes5866]

Abba are eternally magnificent

[@iamwahyusetiyo]

Dick Cavett always has class.

[@hibernius]

Brilliant! I haven't seen this since 1981!!!!

[@thefrickandfrackshow]

I freaking love their accents! :D I love this! I love them!!!

[@TheCrossbow1]

It might have something with my face - best comment i ever heard...

[@MyRicardo1981]

Excellent interview

[@bobafettucini]

LOL - Benny "it could have something to do with... my face!"

[@cessnaace]

Good point. It actually took years for anyone to realize that I couldn't read music (I'm dyslexic), because I played well enough 'by ear' that I fooled everyone into thinking that I could. Eventually I learned how to read music, but I could play long before I learned to read sheet music. STAY AWESOME! :)

[@cessnaace]

@Cool Guy Good luck Cool! :)

[@oysterboy9]

I can see how you'd get that feeling. I think that he was in some ways - a cut above the rest. He attained the best of the talent because he had a great reputation for conducting an interview with wit and alternative.

[@9raider]

"My face" I died! How I love that bearded man!

[@Davai007]

they have such spirit and most beautiful music....

[@DistantCousin]

It's a very slow paced interview, compared to TV interviews these days...but still enjoyable!

[@bobafettucini]

@bgarris1 yes they were.. and if Benny and Frida weren't divorced yet they were well on their way as Benny married Mona Nörklit in November 1981.

[@TheOneBeatleManiac]

They were two months divorced already. The special was done on April 1981.

[@minapuppa]

I was thinking that They are acting as if there is a lot of stress among Them.

[@susanduva1088]

Abba was fantastic and with there many hits like dancing queen Fernando knowing me Knowing you one of the greatest bands of all time and Waterloo when I was a kid in the seventies they worked together really well as A group and they where once husband and wife many of there songs where very catchy and happy songs up the irons maiden manic✨✨✨🤘🤘😸😸⭐⭐🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸

[@edcampion3998]

the girls look gorgeous

[@carljan57]

Well done pronouncing the names, Dick.

[@smasherhits]

@frustrated728 Asolutely!..You took the words out of my mouth..Cavett was very witty, humourous and asked great questions..ABBA are very relaxed here and its a bloody great interview..I wish interviews could be as good now..And the music as good too..Nobody has any imagination any more..all the kids grow up sitting behind their laptops instead of a guitar these days..and if they do write songs..where is the quality?

[@Superlamo]

How I wish, Dick Cavett took the all the Oprah slots instead and still doing it today!

[@SCARAMOUSXL5]

ABBA IS ROMANTIC POP THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITH AGNETHA'S AND FRIDA'S VOICES!!!

[@lollipop24xxx]

its amazing how good their english is to say they are all swedish:D

[@mikesaunders4775]

Most Swedes speak very good English. Swedish footballers English actually gets worse after living in England.

[@amyangela4804]

her full name is anni frid lyngstad and it took a few times to get their name right]

[@zxingzxing]

Awesome Interview / Interviewer Neville Bardoliwalla

[@alssupersadgarden]

he did ask a good question...What made their music so powerful? If not for those 2 amazing voices, we would never have heard anything Bjorn and Benny wrote and they should have been given copyrights in part, which they were not.

[@jonisafreak3]

Is that why they split so quickly?

[@sickphil71]

It took me almost half an hour to watch this because it was such a painful experience. Really. I had to keep stopping it. I need to wash my hands now. Just to be clear, I appreciate virgisa posting this, but Dick Cavette is a dolt. Washing my hands now.

[@teresita.lozada]

Great quality

[@andrewwilliams8187]

Always wondered how groups write music. Now I know

[@kirbygene]

Cavett talking about their appeal and fame: "It's so colossal, that I don't think there's ever been anything like it in the history of the music world". I love Dick Cavett, but where the heck was he during Beatlemania?

[@ajs41]

They were bigger than the Beatles in a lot of places.

[@kirbygene]

@@ajs41 Please name them.

[@terryc.3390]

@@kirbygene Australia and Belgium, to name 2.

[@ricky3180]

@@kirbygene Holland

[@kirbygene]

ABBA doesn't come remotely close to this in Australia. Not putting ABBA down-- NO other artist ever did.

[@silverstarshine2003]

is there a part 2 or 3 anywhere, we ve only had about 5 mins so far !

[@poorsonwelles]

Contrast this to Dick Clark's interview with them on American Bandstand... perfect contrast of How To Interview and How Not To Interview.

[@Pixiegnom]

@sweetchic485 ehm because bjorn&benny wrote all abba songs they probably knew english before? here in sweden we start to learn english in first grade, i dont know how it was back in their time though

[@UmiNofus-zm4rg]

Saya suka vidio ini tapi sy mau komen tidak bisa bahada inggris..maaf semoga sukses intervuanya ..💙

[@TruEviLuKki]

He should bow before he talks to the Gods of Music

[@Ingridthepoet]

aah cool, fun to here him pronounce their names in swedish XD

[@antonwiderberg7571]

And failing at it.

[@DanielaFromAitEile]

2:24 "it might have something to do with ... my face" XDXD that was funny XD

[@bgarris1]

Notice how the group is sitting. I think Bjorn and agnetha were already divorced by the time the interview was aired.

[@josephburke8723]

Awesomr

[@Fab4Sunrises]

I just decided Benny ismy fav

[@allthingsfreshincatfi9644]

Mine is Frida, Bjorn, and Agnetha....

[@arfracer]

Cavett almost puts the audience to sleep as he stumbles through this interview.

[@PerAllwin1963]

Was this taped in America or the U.K?

[@tranquilnightmares]

@Torzadio Don't worry, I'm sure it was an American who made fun of her accent. They just don't realise that for most of us Europeans, English isn't our first language.

[@GettnBooted]

dick cavett was one of my first crushes...sigh...the memories. gb

[@54spiritedwill54]

Wow! That guy is FUNNY!!! hehe

[@alinoo1]

benny is cool

[@janknuckey]

What does Bjorn think he looks like? An extra from Battlestar Galactica !!!

[@skrikon]

ABBA never officially split up, but in 1982 the decided to take a brake, and they never started again... :(

[@gizmo8361]

Until now...... 😉 2021 the Voyage album!

[@IncurableAbbe]

@tranquilnightmares It was an Italian that made fun her, jerk. I am an American and I actually JUST decided to look up ABBA interviews because I love Swedish accents and I wanted to hear theirs. In case you haven't noticed, we American's have accents as well; the original English accent, of course, comes from England. Even though you were rude and you stereotyped the people in my country, I will say that Irish people have wonderful accents as well and the language of Ireland is beautiful..

[@0thcentury]

your profile pic is interesting too

[@MilesBellas]

6:00 so the answer is: time, focus, isolation and hard work

[@0thcentury]

yeah I see. my wife is currently conducting a field research in Kerala.

[@Rebornlover99557]

Why is Benny wearing ladies shoes?

[@tangyorange3863]

Because he can.

[@angelaattenbon4788]

He borrowed them from Bjorn.

[@Gaish]

he's just wearing shoes man..

[@Gerguzalbutzelnikoskech]

No, you're not! :D I've always thought I was alone ;)

[@Antoniosoto13]

The guy in the green looks like Terry McDermott from the voice

[@tranquilnightmares]

@IncurableAbbe I'm sorry for stereotyping Americans, it just seems that it usually is Americans who pass judgemental comments on accents etc (hypocrisy on my behalf I know) and that's why I presumed that it was one. I meant no offense towards you personally or anyone else.

[@NekoDemon11]

@AisaawaaahGurrahFFS I was thinking the exact same thing. :P

[@erectiondog]

@nycanti That's Dick Cavett!

[@amyangela4804]

ur welcome xx

[@michaelrochester48]

It was not technically the dick Cavett show which was usually shown on PBS in the 1980s, it actually was a special that was produced in Sweden with American talk show host take care of it. This was not part of his regular series, or he would’ve released this whole thing on DVD a long time ago

[@TheBatman582]

Yeah, I mean he famously interviewed both John Lennon and George Harrison in 1971, so IDK what the hell he's talking about, having interviewed 2 of the most famous musicians from the biggest band of all time.

[@anderlundberg9297]

Bla Bla Bla Bleatles and Bla Bla BLABBA jumpback in the sandbox Kid`s

[@ricky3180]

Biggest band of all time is Abba. Period.

[@PC-wt6bi]

@@ricky3180 dont be silly

[@kodachromefilm]

@tranquilnightmares And what do the Europeans "don't realize"?

[@JerjerB]

my god they were all on tranquilizers!

[@steph4234]

@jon1156 so true.. so so SO TRUE

[@2paczfan]

@nycanti and hell of a sense of humor haha

[@terrysampson5759]

I miss Dick Cavett

[@yargundev9772]

You can see Frida German side here

[@IncurableAbbe]

@tranquilnightmares Water under the bridge. :)

[@jamiew6438]

Agreed ! Seems like he never 'experienced' the joys of Abba,like he had just been given their bio to read and went to Sweden. Maybe it was Stig's idea lol. A host from Scandinavia,Germany or Britain would have been much better,from the same part of the world as the group,with a more similar mentality.Benny is a good laugh lol.

[@michellestmarie]

I know. They go right into cliches. They sound like the chef on the Muppets.

[@DavidMiller-ps5rr]

Abba picked up where the Beatles left off.

[@piehound]

It seems amazing to me the creative process is never straight forward or cut - and - dried.

[@TheHawo123]

You learn it in school, because english is a national language so they must have known atleast some words before fame.

[@MoveOverCasanova]

cavett is always uncharmingly insecure, but it is surely not his fault that abba suffered from severe claustrophobia already and made this interview feel like a funeral

[@dmravi13]

no not really. I could name you 6 other musical acts that have outsold them. not that ABBA is bad in anyway, , i pretty much grew up on them :)

[@nojolie]

WOW does Dick Cavett talk slow!

[@filuwies]

next to him: Frida...

[@AisaawaaahGurrahFFS]

Am I the only one who think Benny looks like Notch?

[@dionneking8]

at this time agnetha couldn't even sit next to bjorn

[@kodachromefilm]

@tranquilnightmares So, what's your point? And, how do you know it's my mother tongue? It may not be. I may know many tongues, which English may not be my mother tongue? So, what's your point?

[@powerforHH]

hahahah :D

[@ManaXAtemu]

Nice that he didn't say any of their names right XD

[@jjgreek1]

its partly ABBA's fault this is boring. They don't really get serious at any point.

[@1borat5]

borning

[@joshuademoraes]

Dick Cavett reminds me George Bush...

[@lou1e1]

:))

[@Lavo68]

Dick Cavett’s energy is death. Didn’t they all have cocaine in 1980?! 😂

[@Dustshoe]

If the interviewer was Olivia Newton John instead, Abba would have been let out of the blocks and enjoyed conversing profusely with us, the audience. A sure sign that the audience in the studio is making up for a poor interviewer is when it giggles constantly. But an audience should laugh instead of giggle. I can imagine a decent interviewer would have enabled the audience to laugh.

[@guileniam]

Dustshoe Dick Cavett was one of the greatest interviewers of all time. What you're watching right now is when he basically went "fuck it", it was '81 and the network were threatening to pull the show, but in his prime he was untouchable.

[@senavz01]

ABBA is an excelent group.. but the interview is very boring!!

[@ubet6691]

I’ve had a wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

[@Morgontrott]

haha, i've met agneta recently, she is still sooo bad at english.

[@Peccath]

That guy is so dry

[@DUKEofWAIL]

Wow, I think Cavett's questions were lame, silly, and unfocused. He certainly did not bring out real character in these worthy guests.

[@Ingridthepoet]

as Im a swede I mean

[@Piell81]

hehe the interviewer is stoned like shit! lol