Run time: 120 mins

A forgotten treasure from the vaults of Sweden’s greatest hitmakers.

One of the best-selling acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982, they are quite possibly the perfect pop group. Yet quality live footage of ABBA is extremely rare. Basically, you’ve got this, a couple of documentaries and that’s about it for official releases.

It’s hard to know exactly what was originally intended when director Lasse Hallström first climbed aboard the production, but what he ultimately constructed out of a 10-city Australian tour in 1977 is something that not only captures the band at the peak of their popularity and musical creativity, but encapsulates the swirl of hysteria that greeted them during the period.

A hybrid of performance sequences, mockumentary footage and staged shenanigans, this is a time capsule experience, seizing a moment in time where the clean-cut foursome were the biggest thing since four guys from Liverpool had a Hard Day’s Night.

Next year marks 50 years since Waterloo shot to Eurovision victory. The competition next year is in Sweden…if there ever was a time to start considering that one-off reunion performance, it’s now.