40 Year Itch : Can You Hear the Drums?

ABBA : Fernando

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  In March of 1976, ABBA spent a week on a press tour in Australia where they did many TV appearances and performed their newly released single "Fernando". While there, on a closed set, they filmed a video for an upcoming single called "Dancing Queen", which would be their biggest song of the year... as well as their only #1 US hit. The successful trip laid the groundwork for a tour of Australia that would follow in 1977.

40 Year Itch : I'm Famous But Most People Don't Know What I Do

In this interview conducted during an Australian tour, Zappa discusses new songs "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and "St Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast"; how he scores the songs and leaves room for improvisation; the kinds of musicians he wants in his band; his favorite Blues guitarists and singers; censorship problems; how songs were based non real stories including a bit about a mud shark at Seattle's Edgewater Inn.

He also talks about Hot Rats; future film projects; Reuben and the Jets and commercial success which leads Zappa to point out more people know what he looks like than what his music sounds like: "I'm famous but most people don't know what I do.