{"id":3333,"date":"2024-04-05T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:48:05","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-abba-winning-the-eurovision-song-contest-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/04\/05\/50th-anniversary-of-abba-winning-the-eurovision-song-contest-in-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"50th anniversary of ABBA winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>50th anniversary of Sweden\u2019s very first Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974 with ABBA (Bj\u00f6rn &amp; Benny, Agnetha &amp; Anni-Frid) singing \u2018Waterloo\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/abba-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3335\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>The victory in Brighton ended up launching the career of one of the most successful acts in the history of music.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/abba-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3336\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The rest, as they say, is history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50th anniversary of Sweden\u2019s very first Eurovision Song Contest win in 1974 with ABBA (Bj\u00f6rn &amp; Benny, Agnetha &amp; Anni-Frid) singing \u2018Waterloo\u2019. The victory in Brighton ended up launching the career of one of the most successful acts in the history of music. The rest, as they say, is history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}