9 Things You Didn't Know About Abba

1) When they started, the four members - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog - had the brilliant idea of creating a name for the group by combining their four initials into an acronym.

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After five years LUAF had still failed to catch on, so they went back to the drawing-board and used their Christian names rather than their surnames. However, early attempts - they toured for four months as AABB - were to prove equally unsatisfactory.