A report on ABBA's press conference for this Australian current affairs show. There must have been more than one press conference as they enter the stage from the left on this one, yet in ABBA - The Movie they enter from the right.  In this clip, Frida is the first on stage, while in ABBA - The Movie Björn entered first.

There were 350 press representatives welcomed to the 45-minute press conference. In the introduction, they were told that ABBA had performed 11 concerts in 10 days and expected to play to some 140,000 people, probably the biggest turn-out for a single performer Australia had ever seen. The tour entourage consisted of 105 people who would travel Australia in a chartered Boeing 727.  Also accompanying ABBA were a 25-member film crew which would record all aspects of the Australian visit for cinema and television.

An arcticle about the press conference in The Canberra Times on 1 March 1977 reported some of questions and aswers as follows:

1. How much of their fan mail do they get to see?
   ABBA’s microphone appeared to fail but from Frida we heard, "most of it is from girls.”
2. What is the ’real’ ABBA like?
   Frida’s microphone was not very good again, but it sounded like "Well, we have breakfast every morning like everyone else.”
3. What about their incredible earnings and that 85% tax slug in Sweden?
   Bearded, brown-booted Benny, slumped in his chair after an attack of food poisoning (Note: that was Björn, not Benny!), but for all that probably the most relaxed member of the group, told us that ABBA would never reside anywhere other than Sweden, even as a tax dodge. "We love Sweden,” he said, "we have enough money so that we don’t have to worry for the next five or 10 years. But money is not that important thing is to please yourself by doing what you enjoy doing the best.”
4. The inevitable question: Does Agnetha, as various media polls have suggested, possess the sexiest bottom in the world?
   Impeccably made-up and clad in plain white, Agnetha made the joke of the evening: "I just don’t know,” she said, "I've never seen it.” (as featured in ABBA - The Movie)
5. Will the group, like the Beatles, ever break up?
   "A break-up in inevitable,” said Benny, "but the reason will be because it just isn’t fun to work together any more. We haven’t worked out the exact details of our break-up yet, i can assure you of that.”
6. Has the group been over-exposed?
   Benny again: "Well, an over-exposure is not our fault, is it? If television channels choose to show something over and over again … we just have to take that, don’t we?”

A familiar-sounding question is asked during this press conference which then featured - as audio only in a shot from the press conference in ABBA - The Movie. The question asked is, "Are you clean?" The response, "No, we are not clean, but do not take drugs"  (again, as featured in ABBA - The Movie).  This last question was by two girls, Tracy Wilson and her sister Jodie, who had won a competition to ask ABBA a question at the press conference and were also shown in this clip. But it is only their voices you hear in ABBA - The Movie asking their question.

This Day Tonight (TDT), 1977;
This Day Tonight (TDT), 1977;

Archive data from National Archives of Australia:

Item details for: C475, ARCH 01F/0162.4
Title This Day Tonight [moving images] : TDT, ABBA, program number TW1114.
Date of recording 28 February 1977. 1 of 1 magnetic tracks (03 min 36 sec) : sprocketed magnetic film film; 16mm, sound
Contents date range 28 Feb 1977 - 28 Feb 1977
Series number C475
Control symbol ARCH 01F/0162.4
Item barcode 8541641
Location Sydney
Access status Not yet examined
Physical format AUDIO-VISUAL RECORDS (allocated at series level)
Alternative series and control symbol C475, ARCH 01F/0162
Date registered 15 Mar 2005

Thanks to Matti Crocker, Ian Cole and Jozsef
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