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    • ABBA - Residents of the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano gather on January, 24, 2012 outside the house of textile merchant and suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, after he and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security just days after attacks killed 185. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - Residents of the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano gather on January, 24, 2012 outside the house of textile merchant and suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, after he and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security just days after attacks killed 185. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - Shehu Idris, a cousin of suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, squats on January, 24, 2012 in his blood-stained home in the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano just days after attacks killed 185. Abdullahi, a textile merchant, and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security on his house. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - Residents of the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano gather on January, 24, 2012 outside the house of textile merchant and suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, after he and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security just days after attacks killed 185. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - An aunt of suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, cries on January, 24, 2012 outside his home in the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano just days after attacks killed 185. Abdullahi, a textile merchant, and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security on his house. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - A brother of a suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, stands on January, 24, 2012 next to a bullet-riddled car inside the house of the suspected sect members in the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano just days after attacks killed 185. Abdullahi, a textile merchant, and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security on his house. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - Police officers enter the house of a suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, on January, 24, 2012 in the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano just days after attacks killed 185. Abdullahi, a textile merchant, and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security on his house. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - Police officers enter the house of a suspected member of the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, on January, 24, 2012 in the Tsamiyar Boka neighborhood of the northern Nigerian city of Kano just days after attacks killed 185. Abdullahi, a textile merchant, and his wife were shot dead in an overnight raid by security on his house. A witness said that a large number of military and state security services operatives encircled a house suspected to be a hideout of Boko Haram shortly after midnight. They opened fire and the suspects fired back resulting in a shootout lasting around four-and-half hours.
    • ABBA - Chinese performers dance and sing a Chinese version of Swedish pop group ABBA's hit 'Dancing queen' during a preview of the classic musical 'Mamma Mia' in Shanghai on July 11, 2011. The Chinese version of the show is translated from the English version and features more than 20 songs re-interpreted in Chinese.
    • ABBA - Chinese performers dance and sing a Chinese version of Swedish pop group ABBA's hit 'Dancing queen' during a preview of the classic musical 'Mamma Mia' in Shanghai on July 11, 2011. The Chinese version of the show is translated from the English version and features more than 20 songs re-interpreted in Chinese.
    • ABBA - KEY WEST, FL - MARCH 5: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) In this handout image provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, a group of conch shell 'musicians' play and dance to a recording of Abba's 'Dancing Queen' during the annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest March 5, 2011 in Key West, Florida. The contest drew entrants who were judged on the quality, novelty, duration and loudness of the sounds they produced.
    • ABBA - Lifestyle-culture-entertainment-HongKong, by Aidan JonesSingers performs at a karaoke lounge in Hong Kong on February 11, 2011. It's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years; crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits. Karaoke is big business. And business is booming to the sound of singing. Some good, most bad.
    • ABBA - Lifestyle-culture-entertainment-HongKong, by Aidan JonesSingers performs at a karaoke lounge in Hong Kong on February 11, 2011. It's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years; crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits. Karaoke is big business. And business is booming to the sound of singing. Some good, most bad.
    • ABBA - Lifestyle-culture-entertainment-HongKong, by Aidan JonesSingers performs at a karaoke lounge in Hong Kong on February 11, 2011. It's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years; crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits. Karaoke is big business. And business is booming to the sound of singing. Some good, most bad.
    • ABBA - Lifestyle-culture-entertainment-HongKong, by Aidan JonesSingers performs at a karaoke lounge in Hong Kong on February 11, 2011. It's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years; crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits. Karaoke is big business. And business is booming to the sound of singing. Some good, most bad.
    • ABBA - NEW YORK - MARCH 15: Musician Benny Andersson of ABBA attends the 25th Annual Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Waldorf=Astoria on March 15, 2010 in New York City.
    • ABBA - NEW YORK - MARCH 15: Musicians Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Prinsessan Reuss of ABBA attend the 25th Annual Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Waldorf=Astoria on March 15, 2010 in New York City.
    • ABBA - NEW YORK - MARCH 15: Musicians Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Prinsessan Reuss of ABBA attend the 25th Annual Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Waldorf=Astoria on March 15, 2010 in New York City.
    • ABBA - NEW YORK - MARCH 15: Musicians Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Prinsessan Reuss of ABBA attend the 25th Annual Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Waldorf=Astoria on March 15, 2010 in New York City.
    • ABBA - NEW YORK - MARCH 15: Musician Anni-Frid Prinsessan Reuss of ABBA attends the 25th Annual Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Waldorf=Astoria on March 15, 2010 in New York City.
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    The most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s, the origins of the Swedish superstars ABBA dated back to 1966, when keyboardist and vocalist Benny Andersson, a onetime member of the popular beat outfit the Hep Stars, first teamed with guitarist and vocalist Bjorn Ulvaeus, the leader of the folk-rock unit the Hootenanny Singers. The two performers began composing songs together and ...more
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