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“... In​ 1977, Abba were waiting at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm when they noticed a dishevelled young man charging towards them. Their security guards spotted him too, along with the spatter of dried vomit on his leather jacket. ‘You’re my favourite band! I love you!’ a 20-year-old Sid Vicious slurred, as his idols were hurried to safety. Improbably, Vicious’s favourite Abba song was the gloopy ballad ‘Fernando’, which, in its English-language version, imagined a conversation between two old Mexican revolutionaries: ‘Do you still recall the fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande?’ The punks loved Abba ...”