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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song "Waterloo," on Friday got one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden from the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf.
On June 1, 1967, the Beatles released “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” for years considered by many to be the greatest rock ‘n’ roll album of all time.