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Princess Anni-Frid, Dowager Countess of Plauen (née Lyngstad; born 15 November 1945), better known by her nickname Frida, is a Norwegian-Swedish singer, songwriter and environmentalist. She is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the Swedish pop band ABBA. Frida recorded two albums after ABBA split up in the early 1980’s: ’Something’s Going On’ in 1982 and ’Shine’ in 1984. ’Shine’ features songwriting contributions from musicians such as Stuart Adamson, Kirsty MacColl, Simon Climie (of Climie Fisher fame), and Pete Glenister – Alison Moyet’s co-writer and producer. The Shine album is also unique as it saw the debut of Lyngstad as a songwriter in both “Don’t Do It“ and “That’s Tough“, the latter also features her son Hans Fredriksson as co-writer. (Frida also wrote “I Don’t Wanna Be Alone“ during this period). The track “Slowly“ was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA. This is the last commercially released song written by the ABBA composers to be recorded by either of ABBA’s female vocalists to date. The lead single from the album was the title track, “Shine“. In some countries “Twist in the Dark“, “Come to Me (I Am Woman)“ and “Heart of the Country“ were released as singles. Shine reached the Top 10 on the album charts in Sweden, Norway and Belgium, and the Top 20 in the Netherlands. This is a live recording of Frida’s performance at the Platengala 1984 in the Netherlands, October 1984. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: October 11, 1984 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.
