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ABBA CELEBRATION * 50 YEARS SINCE WATERLOO Business talk and chats with business creator Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson
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* We were all in love with music * And we knew the need for management * How we changed the world * ABBA * Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson ABBA's Genious Business Creator Stig Anderson was definately one of my mentors within management.
Stikkan took the artists to an extreem success, and even everlasting success,
by his planning and visions of the future music and entertainment industry. What is really unfamiliar to the general public is the hard work Stikkan did before launching ABBA.
In Cannes he was networking with for example the business creator of Elton John,
who prior to Elton's success, also launched The Beatles. We music managers swallowed coffee, tea, and even
some pints of beer or wine as we contacted each other.
Champagne could be on the list, but professional concert promoters,
like Arne Worsoe from ICO, always stayed away from champagne. Business was serious. Contracts were to be hand-shaked
and later end up on legal papers. If Stikkan had not done the work, he would never
have been able to take ABBA to a global success ... and keeping them there. Stikkan literary put Continental Europe on the world market place,
which enabled other musicians and composers to gain success.
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VIEW SOME INTERESTING ABBA MANAGEMENT MOMENTS
Hardly anybody gave business interviews before ABBA exposed the background of his and the bands success. The success financed recording studio time, and enabled a ping-pong sales technique between copyrights with original recordings and cover version recordings.
Worlds Only Business Interview with The Founder of Polar Music Prize ABBA hit Australia, and in 1977 Ian Molly Meldrum create the first tv interview with Stikkan. Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson was interviewed in 1979 and presented in the magazine Sound International. In 1983 Music Management & International Promotion present a full business interview. Now available in the coffee-shop book series Between Caviar & Champagne [Apple Books]. Year 1989 Stikkan launch Polar Music Prize. More information about the 1989 Polar Music Prize is presented in Billboard. 1995 Stikkan explain his life in the music business at TV broadcast. 
FREE ABBA POSTERS * DOWNLOAD FREE * DISTRIBUTE FREE * PRINT FREE * DISPLAY IT IN YOUR WINDOWS * WHAT IS ALL THAT TALK ABOUT ABBA MANAGEMENT AND THE BEATLES/ ELTON JOHN MANAGEMENTS? If you are business interested you may have observed how links have been tied between investors in Italy, and Hollywood, and the finance of the Elton John movie "Rocketman", thereby also leading to the vast money operation for "ABBA Voyage" project and tours. Briefly informed, MMIP meet with Alvin Zakin in 1976, and his network launced The Beatles in The United States in 1964. MMIP also meet with DJM, Dick James Junior, and talk and interview about business several times. Thereafter MMIP also visit Italy, and get a brand new global festival project startet in 2011. If you are curious for more information, please buy the coffee-book series "Between Caviar and Champagne" and experience how your world of background knowledge greets your curiosity. You might even get inspired to start a business within music.
ABBA's iconic manager explain how he had to do barter deals to finance ABBA productions APPLE BOOKS * Between Caviar & Champagne * LULU BOOKS * Between Caviar & Champagne * Join the party. Become an ABBA INFLUENCER [ABBA.influencer@gmail.com]
MORE BACKGROUND INFORMATION FROM OUR NETWORK
The following videos may give you some ideas of the business done in Cannes during those days. Music Management & International Promotion mingled and pitched ideas and new concepts. Lots of talents came, but the background pitching amongst lawyers, such as Michael Sukin and Martin Druyan, and the mingling with festival organisers, created a platform for next step, and next step, and next step, in the music business. Imagine when we in 1985 met with young ambitious MTV pioneers, who believed they could change the world .... and then they did it. Imagine to meet the spin-doctors behind the big icon artists, who would have been left nowhere, had it not been for their managers, personal managers, talent scouts, gossiping journalists, business men, tour managers, accountants, tax-advisors, merchandise managers, A/R managers, record labels, media, etc. And Stikkan was in the forefront hitting the whole world gradually step by step with his group, ABBA.
MMIP meeting with celebs discussing markets, music, and promotion DJM takes Elton John from zero to something Photo session with Lenny Kravitz and Music Management & International Promotion Ringo Starr's Personal Manager moves to Colleseum and Eurythmics BeeGees recorded at Criteria * ABBA recorded their Voulez Vous track at Criteria * DJ Skipper visit Criteria and Karl Richardson Frank Sinatra's manager, Tino Barzie, inform of the role as a Personal Manager Manager says, international icon, like James Brown, should be neutral to politics Bruce Springsteen was about to be launched in Europe Barbra Steisand recorded 'Guilty' and Karl Richardson was engineering The promoters of The Beatles tell and explain about the business Year 2011 MMIP pitch ABBA in Italy with a special project. View one of the results. Founder and creator of MIDEM * In the network of FIDOF and International Entertainment Lawyers Year after year - the analog way of promoting music vs. the digital way of promoting music MMIP working on the promotion launching global success |
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ABBA CELEBRATION * 50 YEARS SINCE WATERLOO
Business talk and chats with business creator Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson and many others |