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Not even Abba themselves had seriously thought they were in with a chance. Afterwards Björn, now 68, who’d had to stand in the coach all the way to the Dome for fear of splitting his flares, signed up to run the Stockholm marathon. “When I saw pictures of myself I realised I was a bit fat. To be a pop idol required a certain kind of body – particularly if I was going to wear jump suits,” he says in an interview to mark the 40th anniversary of their Eurovision victory and the publication of Abba: The Treasures, a book of unseen memorabilia and personal anecdotes put together by his friend Ingmarie Halling.

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