cher abba album download ABBA fans REJOICE to discover 'new' pop video – Agnetha thinks she 'looks like Miss Piggy' When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. There is new music on its way from ABBA sometime this year, confirmed Bjorn who said new tracks are "coming this year. I’m guessing after the summer. But I can only guess, because I’m not really sure. But I would think so." However, a 'long-lost' video has been thrilling fans with amazing appearances from all four band members plus a new guest cameos. Scroll down to watch the full six-minute special. Related articles. The video features a medley or some of the band's most iconic songs, set to a spoof audition. All the characters in the short film only speak using classic lines from ABBA songs. It is hilarious and charming and has been reminding fans in 2020 of how much they love the Swedish supergroup. But where did this video some from and why are fans only discovering it now on Youtube and VEVO? One excited fan wrote: "Not sure why ABBA is on my feed but now I can’t stop watching." Another replied: "Me either! I just can’t believe I never saw this video before, though! Really curious when it was made. It’s insanely good and creative!" Cher's new album of ABBA covers Dancing Queen: Release date, tracklist and all the details. Cher has announced full details of her brand new album of ABBA covers! This is easily the most Cher-thing to ever happen, and we're rather excited to hear the results. Here are all the details you need. Cher ABBA covers album: What is it called? In case you somehow didn't know, Cher recently played the role of Meryl Streep's mother Ruby in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again . In the film, she sang a version of ABBA's 'Fernando' and clearly got hooked on the Swedish group. Picture: Warner Bros. “I’ve always liked Abba and saw the original Mamma Mia musical on Broadway three times,” Cher said. “After filming Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , I was reminded again of what great and timeless songs they wrote and started thinking ‘why not do an album of their music?’. "The songs were harder to sing than I imagined but I’m so happy with how the music came out. I’m really excited for people to hear it. It’s a perfect time.” When is the release date? The album will be released via Warner Bros Records on September 28. It was recorded and produced in London and Los Angeles with Cher’s longtime collaborator Mark Taylor, who previously produced her massive 1998 hit 'Believe'. Which ABBA songs has Cher covered? Here is the tracklist: 1. Dancing Queen 2. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 3. The Name Of The Game 4. SOS 5. Waterloo 6. Mamma Mia 7. Chiquitita 8. Fernando 9. The Winner Takes It All 10. One Of Us. Has Cher released any songs yet? Cher has released a teaser of 'Gimme Gimme Gimme': Cher has also released her version of 'SOS', and performed it on The Ellen DeGeneres Show : Plus, you can hear her version of 'Fernando' from Mamma Mia 2 below: Cher reveals ABBA covers album tracklist after Mamma Mia 2 role. Cher has revealed that she has already recorded an album of ABBA cover versions, following her appearance in musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again . The 72-year-old pop icon appears in the film as the mother of Meryl Streep's character Donna (despite Meryl being just three years younger than her in real life). 11 fascinating facts about Cher. In the movie, Cher sings a couple of ABBA classics including the ballad 'Fernando' with actor Andy Garcia. She teased the tracklist on Twitter, revealing she will cover the likes of 'Dancing Queen', 'The Winner Takes it All' and 'One of Us'. SONGS 1.WATERLOO 2.GIMME,GIMME 3.DANCING 4.CHIQUITITTA 5. NAME OF THE GAME 6.MOMMA MIA 7. ONE OF US 8.WINNER TAKES IT ALL 9.SOS 10.⁉ — Cher (@cher) July 25, 2018. Speaking to the Today Show Cher said: “After I did 'Fernando' [in the film], I thought it would be fun to do an album of ABBA songs, so I did! "It’s not what you think of when you think ABBA, because I did it in a different way.” Cher has yet to reveal any more details about the project. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is released at UK cinemas on Friday (July 20). Review: Cher sings ABBA songs and the reason is sadly clear. OK, everyone, settle down. We have a question. This is important. No, really. Can someone turn the music down? Ready? OK: Put your hand up if you’ve ever asked for an album of ABBA covers by Cher. Seriously, who wanted this? Anyone? Crickets? We thought so. Well, Cher, we guess, wanted it, maybe to buy a new yacht or fulfill some label requirement. Warner Bros. Records clearly did, too, if only to profit on the icon’s appearance in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.” The whiff of a quick buck is so sour here that it taints the Swedish band’s bubbly compositions. Like one song’s chorus goes: “Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!” Cher offers a very deliberate, 10-track collection of classic ABBA songs, including “Waterloo,” ″Mamma Mia” and “SOS.” Inexplicably, she returns to “Fernando” for another swing, having already supplied a version for the film’s soundtrack. That cover is produced by former ABBA member Benny Andersson; the rest of the album is produced by Cher’s longtime collaborator Mark Taylor. All the versions are fantastically well produced, mixed and arranged, but there’s a strange coldness in these tracks, as if all the fun was drained. Cher takes them all very, very seriously, like they were tunes by Stephen Sondheim instead of frothy disco songs. Her take on “The Winner Takes It All” is especially preposterous and pompous. Only one song, “One of Us,” the final one on the album, reinterprets the original into something somewhat stirring and thoughtful. The cleverness of the “Mamma Mia!” films is that familiar pop songs from the 1970s get sung by movie stars in a lush romantic comedy. That’s different from belting out the same tunes in a recording studio and not adding anything. Please, Cher, go ahead and do an acoustic version or even a punk take of the ABBA catalog. But “Dancing Queen” — except for one song — has nothing new to say and simply reeks with the appalling stench of greed. Cher's 30 greatest songs – ranked! “Cher truly out-gayed herself with this one,” offered one LGBT website of Take It Like a Man’s delightfully double-entendre-laden, robot-voiced Euro-disco stomp with guest vocals from Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, little realising that an album of Abba covers was around the corner. 29. After All (1989) Firmly entrenched in the moneyspinning late-80s world of soft-rock balladry, After All teamed up Cher with former Chicago frontman Peter “Glory of Love” Cetera. Not as immediately effective as her best power ballads, it still has a certain emotional oomph. 28. Little Man (1967) You could perhaps tell that Sonny and Cher were bound not for rock stardom but for cabaret. Little Man is less like the boundary-breaking records at pop’s cutting edge in 1967 and more like the MOR that the people horrified by pop’s cutting edge turned to instead. Still, it’s a pretty charming song. 27. I Paralyze (1982) A flop album that essentially minted the AOR style that would lead to Cher’s resurgence five years later, I Paralyze’s title track is something else entirely – an intriguingly odd collaboration with former Shadow John Farrar, filled with weird chord changes and seasick-sounding brass. 26. Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1974) Even if you hadn’t known that Sonny and Cher’s marriage was in trouble, you might have guessed something was wrong just on the basis of this bizarre but compelling single which opens with what sounds like its climax: a cacophonous minute of squealing guitars. Compelling, bizarre … always on-trend, in 1978. Photograph: Harry Langdon/Getty Images. 25. The Fall (Kurt’s Blues) (2000) Not.com.mercial is an anomaly in Cher’s catalogue: an album of self-penned rock songs, from which this tribute to Kurt Cobain (yes) comes. She delivers it all with a conviction suggesting that, when it comes to the isolating effects of fame, she knows of what she speaks. 24. Dressed to Kill (2013) It is hard to decide which is the more improbable fact: that Cher ended up rerecording the solitary flop solo single released by former Ordinary Boys frontman turned reality TV star Preston, or that her version – a distorted bit of Daft Punk-y pop-house – really works. Winningly, she performed it live dressed as a vampire. 23. A Woman’s Story (1974) A one-off single, its eerie production the work of Phil Spector, A Woman’s Story is an extraordinary, bleak song. Something about Cher’s weary vocal cuts against the optimism of the chorus: the protagonist sounds doomed. Covered to considerable effect by Marc Almond. 22. It’s the Little Things (1967) Sonny and Cher’s movie debut, Good Times, was a disastrous flop: the first sign that a career that had once led them to have five songs in the US chart at the same time was hitting the buffers. But the soundtrack yielded this gem: booming pop sung with real affection by Cher. 21. The Gunman (1995) In the list of improbable pop collaborations, Cher performing a song specially written for her by Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon has to rank pretty high, but The Gunman works; a sumptuous, sophisticated ballad, decorated with vocoder backing vocals and early-70s soul touches. 20. I Go to Sleep (1965) The Kinks frontman Ray Davies’ epic mid-60s giveaway has been covered by everyone from Peggy Lee to Sia. Cher’s powerful take on the song, tucked away on her solo debut album, is the one that you suspect Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders had in mind when they recorded it: the vocals are oddly similar. In 1970 light-entertainment mode. Photograph: Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock. 19. Train of Thought (1974) A much harder-sounding single than Cher was associated with at this stage in her career, Train of Thought’s blues/rock/soul/pop hybrid is an atypical gem from her early-70s oeuvre: proof her voice was more stylistically adaptable than her detractors believed. 18. Living in a House Divided (1972) A rare occasion when Cher’s music appeared to be offering a glimpse into her personal life – an emotive, soulfully sung depiction of a marriage on the rocks, released as her marriage to Sonny Bono faltered. 17. Classified 1A (1971) At this point, Sonny and Cher were light entertainers, which may be why Classified 1A went unreleased at the time. Written from the point of view of a soldier in Vietnam “dying in the mud”, and sung in tones of hoarse-voiced despair by Cher, it’s a ballad with more depth than their public image allowed. 16. Dark Lady (1974) It is not meant as faint praise to say that Cher can sing the most ridiculous songs with total sincerity, particularly when the results are as enjoyable as this preposterous load of black magic/infidelity/murder-themed hokum. A US No 1. 15. Just Like Jesse James (1989) Such things are obviously relative, but Just Like Jesse James is a restrained single by Cher’s late-80s standards; an extremely well-polished bit of songwriting and a rare air-punch-inducing power ballad that resists the temptation to turn everything up to 11. 14. The Beat Goes On (1967) Sonny Bono was always a smarter, shrewder operator than the hippy garb and hapless public persona suggested. And there’s something impressively cynical about Sonny and Cher’s other big lasting hit, a view of the 60s in full swing, with one eyebrow knowingly raised. Her 80s soft-rock incarnation. Photograph: Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock. 13. One of Us (2018) It’s easy to see Cher’s album of Abba covers as an ultra-camp gag by a gay icon, but her version of One of Us is anything but knowing. She digs into the song’s dark heart, stripping away the original’s bouncy rhythm to produce an anguished depiction of romantic despair. 12. Magic in the Air (I Feel Something in the Air) (1966) Cher as girl-group-styled ballad singer, with wall-of-sound arrangement and an adventurous, defiant Sonny Bono-penned song that won’t stay still, shifting and changing its time signature throughout. A lost epic. 11. I Got You Babe (1965) The sound of the growing 60s counterculture scrubbed more or less clean for mass consumption, Sonny and Cher’s breakthrough hit remains irresistible, both in its sun-kissed depiction of youthful optimism and the sheer melodic force of its songwriting. 10. I Found Someone (1987) Cher capitalising on her song-stealing guest appearance on Meat Loaf’s Dead Ringer for Love with a big, irresistible guitar-driven ballad that Mr Loaf himself could have done. It was a hit for Laura Branigan a year before, but Cher’s reading obliterated the earlier version from the public memory. 9. All I Really Want to Do (1965) Signed as a solo artist more as an extension of the Sonny and Cher brand than with any real musical direction, Cher’s early albums are an uneven mishmash of folk rock and Phil Spector-ish production. Occasionally they clicked, as on this cover, closer in tone to Bob Dylan’s sneery original than the Byrds’ sweeter reading. 8. Cry Like a Baby (1969) Her career temporarily in the doldrums, Cher tried making a southern soul album, 3614 Jackson Highway, recorded in Memphis with backing musicians from Muscle Shoals. It wasn’t where her future lay, but it was surprisingly good. She sounds really powerful and in control here, on a cover of the Box Tops’ 1968 hit. 7. We All Sleep Alone (1988) The kind of 80s soft-rock anthem that sounds inexplicably moving when you hear it on Magic FM in the back of a cab at 3am, the Bon Jovi- penned song heralded a musical renaissance for Cher after years focusing on her acting career. 6. Half-Breed (1973) Written for Cher and obviously playing on her exotic looks – half-Armenian, part-Cherokee – Half-Breed’s angry rebuke of racial intolerance is an entirely fantastic slice of tough early-70s pop: part thumping glam drums, part theatrical proto-disco strings. 5. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (1966) An early hint of where Cher’s talents as a solo singer really lay, Bang Bang’s saga of first love turned sour sees her holding her own as the arrangement piles on the melodrama: flamenco-ish guitars, weeping Gypsy violin and a vaguely Russian-sounding interlude. 4. Take Me Home (1979) Cher should have made a better disco diva than she did, but her two albums for the Casablanca label were let down by weak material and a sense her heart wasn’t really in it. The title track of the second, however, is a triumph: funky, lushly arranged, pitched perfectly between melancholy yearning and sleazy one-night-stand-hunting lust. In the early 70s. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. 3. Believe (1998) Her umpteenth artistic reinvention – this time as purveyor of pumping electronic dance-pop – was aided by an early example of Brian Higgins’ songwriting smarts: he went on to mastermind the career of Girls Aloud. In its prominent use of the then-new Auto-Tune audio processor as a vocal effect, Believe also has claim to be one of the most influential singles in modern pop. 2. If I Could Turn Back Time (1989) Eighties power ballads could have been invented for Cher: not big on subtlety, grandiose to the point of seeming slightly camp and requiring a powerful voice to deliver them. A lot of her 1989 album, Heart of Stone, now seems very much of its time, but Diane Warren’s If I Could Turn Back Time is a song built to transcend its booming period production. Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves. 1. Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves (1971) Becoming unhip may have been the best thing that ever happened to Cher. She and her partner, Sonny Bono, had emerged in 1965 as exotic- looking harbingers of California’s hippy counterculture, but by 1968 they were hopelessly square, a monogamous couple who were anti-drugs: bummer . They ditched folk-rock and shifted towards Vegas: good news for Cher, whose voice was better suited to belting out showstoppers than grappling with Dylan’s Masters of War. Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves was the biggest showstopper of all, a gargantuan chorus tied to a fabulous example of the lost art of tale-telling songwriting – the pop song as picaresque short story. Over its course, she is variously angry, seductive, terrified and resigned: a great actor, though no one knew it yet.