ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog returns with a new album in 2013
The 1970s-related news stories have been piling up over the past weeks – so let’s get right to it. First up, comes the news that ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog has released a new single and an album is due May 13th. “When You Really Loved Someone” is the name of Fältskog’s single and you can take in the official video below. For more info hit stories at The Guardian and Billboard and Agnetha Fältskog’s Web Site.
‘OMG! The cellphone turns 40’
London UK, a model demos a new mobile phone, 1972. (Photo: Getty Images/CNN)
Next up, mobile communication is celebrating a milestone as the cellular phone turns 40-years-old. Doug Gross at CNN has a story about the first mobile handset making its debut on April 3, 1973.
More 1970s-related stories you may want to ingest:
The Bay City Rollers Did NOT Suck… (HuffPost)
Cheryl Tiegs Lists L.A. Mansion For Sale (HuffPost)
Voyager Solar System ‘exit’ debated (BBC)
‘Dark Side of the Moon,’ ‘Saturday Night Fever’ Added to National Recording Registry (Time)
‘Big Bang Theory’ cast members find their inner ‘Rocky Horror’ (L.A. Times)
Barbara Walters to retire in 2014 (EW)
Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace Movie Looks Glorious (Slate)
Jane Fonda Calls Vietnam Photo ‘An Unforgivable Mistake’ (HuffPost)
Valerie Harper reunites with co-stars (USA Today)
25 Terrifying Characters From Your Childhood (Babble)
Recent passings of 1970s-era notables
Milo O’Shea – Actor
Roger Ebert – Film Critic
Jane Henson – Co-Creator, The Muppets
Phil Ramone – Record Producer
Harry Reems – Pornography Actor
James Herbert – Horror Author
Frank Thornton – ‘Are You Being Served?’ Actor
Bobbie Smith – Spinners Singer
Previously, on 70s stories in the news: Star Wars, Willie Tyler & Lester, recent passings