The iconic ’70s pop group ABBA has demanded that former President Trump stop using their songs at his campaign rallies and cease using footage that features them. According to The Guardian:
The Republican presidential candidate played hits including Money, Money, Money, The Winner Takes It All and Dancing Queen at his event in St Cloud, Minnesota, the US state with the highest Swedish population, on Tuesday, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported.
The campaign also showed film footage of Abba members on a big video screen at the hockey stadium alongside messages urging supports to donate.
Universal Music, the Swedish group’s record company, said they had not been asked for permission to use Abba music or videos by the Trump campaign and that footage from the event must be “immediately taken down and removed”.
A spokesperson for the group said no license or permission was ever given to the Trump campaign.
“Together with the members of ABBA, we have discovered that videos have been released where ABBAa’s music/videos has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately taken down and removed,” it said.
“Universal Music Publishing AB and Polar Music International AB have