#Waterloo 50th Anniversary

[green-ocean]

[ID: The cover of "Waterloo (50th Anniversary Edition)" by ABBA. There is a cream background with a solid blue vinyl in the middle. Inside the vinyl, there's a big silver "50" with "Waterloo Anniversary" written from the border of the zero and out in the vinyl. Around the vinyl, there is a green wreath with white branches tied by a grey ribbon. The ABBA logo is in the down right corner. End ID]

[rebelcaptain4life]

I love Spotify artist mixes for when I want to listen to mostly but not solely one artist. But some of them are just SO BAD!!! The ABBA mix they made for me is 3hrs and 13 minutes long and only has TEN songs by ABBA (one of which is the Mamma Mia version of Dancing Queen, which is also on the playlist). Really wish there was a way to regenerate it

[pino-san13]

Happy fifty year anniversary to Waterloo winning Eurovision 🎉

[thesnakeandthemoon]

ABBA's second album "Waterloo" is reissued for its 50th anniversary.

[pojkflata]

Loreen rehearsal clip underwhelming with notable vocal hiccups

[myeurovisionsongcontest]

[quaxslay]

The thing that makes me sad about the Eurovision results is that Loreen’s victory lacks everything that makes a Eurovision victory great:

A lesser known artist catapulted into stardom? She’s been internationally known for years.

Their country getting a chance to host after never/rarely doing so before? Sweden’s had it 6 times already.

An underdog taking the crown by being an audience pleaser? She was the bookies’ favourite from the start.

Eurovision being one of the biggest, most exciting things they’ve ever done? She’s done it all before.

None of these things are personally Loreen’s fault, and I actually feel bad for her that this win will be remembered as one that the public clearly wanted to give to someone else. But it does all feel extra slimy and calculated on Sweden’s part, especially given the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s Waterloo just happening to be next year. It all feels very hollow.

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #534:

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA's song "Ring Ring," which was used as their first attempt to enter the Euro Song Contest. They ended up placing third in Melodifestivalen 1973. The following year, they were able to win with their song "Waterloo," winning Eurovision, too.

ABBA is thus uniquely allowed to celebrate two 50-year anniversaries in a row.

[Source]

'Ring Ringing in the year: ABBA's other 50th Eurovision anniversary,' Eurovision.tv.

[canuckus]

Happy 50th Anniversary !

ABBA - Waterloo (Eurovision Song Contest 1974 First Performance)

[anotheruserwithnoname]

The rare Jenna Coleman

(If you don't know what screenshot this is from, you aren't alone)

Incredible as it may sound, 2005 will mark the 20th year of Jenna Coleman's career as a professional movie and TV actress (timed from her joining the cast of Emmerdale). In that time, while nowhere near as prolific as some of her contemporaries (such as David Tennant who, for a while, seemed to have a new show out every fortnight), she has amassed a diverse body of work.

True, she has yet to score a major role in a billion-dollar blockbuster like Karen Gillan has done (Captain America doesn't count as it was only a cameo), and she tends to get snubbed by BAFTA and Emmy, but Jenna hasn't done too bad for herself.

That said, sometimes finding some of her work can be a challenge, or even borderline impossible, especially for fans who don't live in the UK.

Writing from the perspective of someone in Canada, here is a list of the Jenna Coleman performances that have become rare and difficult to see through normal channels. Some of these have circulated unofficially/illegally over the years but I won't go into that. I'm not including adverts or PSAs as they by their nature are ephemeral and usually end up on Youtube anyway (usually posted officially) so can be viewed worldwide.

Quick courtesy break for length...

Emmerdale: This was Jenna's first big role. In her 4 years on the show she appeared in something like 440 episodes (this per an Emmerdale fan site; some counts are far less). Although MANY clips of her from the show have appeared on YouTube, no full accounting of her appearances exists online, the 2005-2009 era of the show I do not believe is available for streaming outside the UK (if anywhere), and no DVD release exists obviously (Dark Shadows remains the only "soap opera" with a complete-series home video release). A fan site once had a rather big collection of Jenna clips, including from the "infamous" pantomime episode, but these were taken down long ago. Also impossible to find is the musical number the Emmerdale cast did for Children in Need on the same night Tennant had his first minisode as the Tenth Doctor.

Room at the Top: Jenna's first major role after Emmerdale was in this two-part miniseries that was infamously pulled from broadcast a few days before its scheduled 2011 airing due to last-minute rights issues; it eventually aired a year later (after Jenna's Who debut). Although it was at one point available for streaming in North America I don't believe it is anymore and unlike Jenna's other productions from her post-Waterloo Road/pre-Who era, this never got a DVD release, likely due to those rights issues. If you just want to see her topless scene, I guess it's everywhere, but the full movie is not easily obtainable.

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot and Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide - while not impossible to find as I believe they got official Youtube releases at one point, if you want to see these two 50th anniversary productions you pretty much have to obtain the expensive Matt Smith Years Blu-ray box set (North America didn't get a 50th anniversary set like the UK which I think had them). Another Who-related rarity is the short Songtaran Carols which was uploaded as a joke leading up to broadcast of The Snowman. It was also viewable on Youtube, but may not be anymore. It has never had a home video release in North America (nor has the Strax Field Report videos).

Lego Dimensions: Jenna has a cameo in the Doctor Who portion of this online video game. The game I believe has now been retired so you can probably find clips of her part online, but if you want to play the game itself, it may or may not still be playable if you can find it. As far as I am aware the two Xenoblade Chronicles games and DLC she did a voiceover for are still available. You can also find Youtube videos featuring just her bits, which is cheating but at least they're archived.

Victoria: The PBS Version. With the exception of the Christmas special (which was severely edited down instead), most episodes of Victoria aired on PBS in the US with several minutes of additional scenes - a number of which feature Jenna. These versions were available exclusively in the US on the PBS website, but for DVD/Blu-ray and rebroadcasts outside PBS, the ITV commercial edits have been used (which is good news for anyone wanting to see Tom Hughes' butt in the infamous skinnydipping scene). The extra scenes haven't even turned up on Youtube. There was also a PBS edit of Death Comes to Pemberley but I never saw it so do not know if any extra Jenna footage was included; the DVD/Blu-ray once again used the UK version.

All My Sons: National Theatre Live streamed a performance of Jenna's production to cinemas in the UK; the North American "broadcast" was delayed by months but eventually happened a couple of weeks before COVID lockdowns began. During COVID the broadcast was made available for a time on NTL's streaming service, and people with access to university library accounts may still be able to view it online through an archive service, but generally speaking it's hard to find these days. Don't even think about seeing her play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. Despite a fan reporting a performance had cameras recording it, NTL never streamed it so, if you couldn't afford to travel to London a few years back, you're SOL.

Inside No. 9: Jenna's guest appearance is widely available in the UK on DVD and streaming. But not in North America where Inside No. 9 is not a thing. (Her other TV guest appearance on Thunderbirds Are Go is not available on home video in North America but the show is syndicated over here and I think is on streaming too).

A Separate Peace: See image at top. During lockdown Jenna and David Morrissey starred in a live-streamed Zoom-based production of a play. It felt like something out of Black Mirror and was meant to be the first of a series of plays that never happened. It has never been restreamed or released in any other format. Officially the only way to have seen this was to have been registered to view the Zoom stream on the day, as I was. Other than unrecorded stage plays this will probably remain the rarest Jenna performance.

Jackdaw: It's had some limited festival exposure, and they keep promising to put it on streaming. I've yet to find any indication of this film actually being made available in North America. Doing an online search I got a conflicting message as to whether her other recent film, Klokkenluider, is on streaming in North America or not. Outside festivals it never got a theatrical release either.

All of You: This one is still pretty new but so far no indication of a North American release/stream yet. Searching for this one is complicated because there is another film of the same title that is streaming, so searches for Jenna's film often bring up the other one.

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It remains to be seen if Control, the project Jenna completed early in her pregnancy, gets a wide release. Series 2 of Sandman will be easy to find (Season 1 even got a Blu-ray release). Her other recent streaming shows are still pretty easy to find on streaming (and DVD in the case of The Cry, though North America did not get a DVD release for The Serpent like the UK got).

[salshuman]

Okay ignoring the riggory of making sure Sweden won for the 50th anniversary of waterloo

DID FOLKS ALSO NOTICE THEY BANNED PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY FROM GIVING WORDS AT EUROVISION AND DIDNT LET KALUSH SPEAK????

[diodmannen]

Celebrating the 50th anniversary with the original Swedish pressing.

I don't remember the Eurovision victory myself, because I wouldn't be born for another three weeks (and yes, I'm an old fart), but my late mother once told me that "Waterloo" was probably the first song I heard on the radio, because it was played a lot at the time. I didn't become a fan,though, until I was about four years old and "Take A Chance On Me" was a hit.

[merylqueenstreep]

Happy 50th Anniversary of winning the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo!

A letter from ABBA to the fans! April 6, 2024

I've been a fan since 1976 and will forever be.

[cloudstongue]

RIGHT I remembER WHAT I WAS GONNA PUT!!

uh not so fun fact about my i like abba i was raised with abba and uh i love old music idc and apotify gave me a playlist to celebrate abba s 50th anniversary since waterloo came out and waterloo is my fav song after chiquitica so go give it a listen rn or ill find you.

[myeurovisionsongcontest]

[pojkflata]

If you didn't want people to accuse this victory of being motivated by Waterloo's 50th anniversary maybe you shouldn't have spent 6 years voting Sweden regardless of quality in hopes of getting MåNs AnD pEtRa 🥺 and proudly advertising this fact