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MonoKate
2021
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ABBA: How They Won Eurovision
Duration: 0 h 45 m | 2024
Celebrating 50 years since ABBA won Eurovision in 1974 with Waterloo, through the extraordinary and entertaining story of how international stardom almost didn't happen for the group.
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