Pop fans: Don't miss this quirky new exhibition in London

By Steve McKenna
Updated January 22 2018 - 2:38pm, first published 2:32pm

As the pitter-patter sound of rain falls from the wall speakers, our guide, Katy, jokingly whips out an umbrella, and welcomes us to a storm-hit Sydney Showgrounds, on the evening of March 3, 1977. Video screens show archive footage of about 20,000 umbrella-wielding fans chanting "We Want ABBA! We Want ABBA!" and in a mock-up of one of the caravan-style dressing rooms is the stained gold and white cape that Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida, the dark-haired one) was wearing when she slipped on the wet stage in arguably the most iconic moment of ABBA's only Australian tour, which jammed 11 concerts, across four cities, into 13 feverish days.

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