ABBA’s greatest victory, Madonna’s Illuminati induction & more: Your weekly bop rewind
From Eurovision charts to honest body parts, here’s your weekly bop rewind:At just twenty years old, Barbra Streisand made her album debut and casually created one of the most definitive pop vocal records ever produced.
It nabbed her Album of the Year at the 6th Grammy Awards and quickly started her on her way to her current EGOT status.With this unspeakably feel-good single, ABBA snagged Sweden their first Eurovision win and put the nation on track to become the superpower of the competition that they now are (with six wins, the country is only bested by Ireland, who have seven).
Over six decades into the competition’s history, “Waterloo” is still regularly cited as its best winning single ever.Television networks, the Pepsi Company, even Pope John Paul II: Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” video had everyone shook.
The mixture of sexuality and overt Christian imagery — including burning crosses — led to one of the original pop star “Illuminati” conspiracy theories.
