a taxi from the airport, as ABBA depart Australia for Europe. With only minutes to go, Ashley makes it back to the radio station where, having set the tape up on the studio's playback machine, he relaxes at his control desk to listen as the interview is broadcast. Cast Benny Andersson as himself Björn Ulvaeus as himself Agnetha Fältskog as herself Anni-Frid Lyngstad as herself Stig Anderson as himself Richard Norton as himself, bodyguard and fitness trainer (uncredited) Robert Hughes as Ashley Wallace Bruce Barry as radio station manager Tom Oliver as bodyguard/bartender/taxi driver Music The introductory bars of "Hole in Your Soul" accompany the opening credits, but the song itself does not feature further. "Tiger" "S.O.S." "Money, Money, Money" "He Is Your Brother" "Intermezzo No. 1" "Waterloo" "Mamma Mia" "Rock Me" "I've Been Waiting for You" "The Name of the Game" "Why Did It Have to Be Me?" "When I Kissed the Teacher" "Get on the Carousel" "I'm a Marionette" "Fernando" "Dancing Queen" "So Long" "Eagle" "Thank You for the Music" A brief snatch of "Knowing Me, Knowing You" as well as "Dum Dum Diddle" is also heard while Ashley is stuck in a traffic jam; they're presumably coming from a nearby car radio. "Ring Ring" is performed by the members of a girls' ballet class Ashley speaks to for the interview while they are practicing their routines (the ABBA version can be heard in the background, which the children are singing along to). Other tracks include "Johan på Snippen" ("Johan Snippen") and "Polkan går" ("Polka goes"), both Swedish traditional songs played by Andersson on piano accordion, and the instrumental "Stoned". The country/western track heard towards the beginning when Ashley is in the radio studio is an early 1970s Björn & Benny song, "Please Change Your Mind", performed by Nashville Train. The song was also recorded by this Swedish country band (several of the musicians are from ABBA's own studio band) and released on their 1977 album ABBA Our Way. Production Hallström indicated that the film's script and plot concept was "conceived on the plane on the way to Australia". Initially, 16 mm film was to be used but producers upgraded the project to 35 mm Panavision technology. Mostly filmed in Australia some additional scenes were filmed in ABBA's native Sweden (but still set in Australia)—noticeably different from Australia. Reception Margaret Geddes of Australian newspaper The Age concluded that