Eurovision Song Contest – The News Desk

LONDON -- It’s 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.”A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens: “My my, at Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way.”The song rang out again Saturday at London’s Waterloo railway station — also named after the 1815 battle that dealt defeat to the French leader — where a choir belted out a rendition for commuters.In the English coastal town of Brighton, where the 1974 competition was held, fans were staging a flashmob dance and silent ABBA disco to mark the anniversary.Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut, by far the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest, which will ho...

NEW YORK -- Huddled together on a snakeskin couch in a New York hotel, their euphoria was infectious.Måneskin just played a pop-up lunchtime show in Times Square, and now they learned their Madison Square Garden show scheduled for later in the week was a sellout.Pleasantly surprised, frontman Damiano David called the news “very special.”“It’s one of the most important places where you can ever dream to play,” David said.That show Thursday night will kick off the North American leg of their Rush! World Tour that began earlier this year.In an era where rock bands seem endangered and most of the top acts in the genre came from the last millennium, Måneskin has become something of an anomaly.Coming to prominence in 2021 after an unexpected win at the Eurovision Song Contest with their high-en...

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ABBA fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm

Italian rockers Måneskin continue to revive the genre, selling out Madison Square Garden