It is simply unlikely that Sweden, after ABBA's victory at Eurovision in 1974, had problems and difficulties in organizing Eurovision in 1975. The second interesting fact is that it was influenced by leftist circles opposed to commercial music. The Swedes' criticism of ABBA for their commercialism during Sweden's preparations for Eurovision 1975 is grotesque. At one of the 1975 festivals, one of the participants sang an offensive song that was an attack on Stig Anderson. Oddly enough, Sweden withdrew from Eurovision in 1976 and when it returned in 1977 it took last place. History has written its own page. Sweden was not able to cope with ABBA's victory because it was a closed society and the appearance of ABBA changed all that, where already in 1976 ABBA was the biggest band in the world.
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It is simply unlikely that Sweden, after ABBA's victory at Eurovision in 1974, had problems and difficulties in organizing Eurovision in 1975. The second interesting fact is that it was influenced by leftist circles opposed to commercial music. The Swedes' criticism of ABBA for their commercialism during Sweden's preparations for Eurovision 1975 is grotesque. At one of the 1975 festivals, one of the participants sang an offensive song that was an attack on Stig Anderson. Oddly enough, Sweden withdrew from Eurovision in 1976 and when it returned in 1977 it took last place. History has written its own page. Sweden was not able to cope with ABBA's victory because it was a closed society and the appearance of ABBA changed all that, where already in 1976 ABBA was the biggest band in the world.