“John McCain blames his love of ABBA on being shot down in Vietnam: ‘A lot of my taste in music stopped about the time I impacted a surface-to-air missile with my own airplane…’ War IS Hell”
For the record, the number one hit in the U.S. on the day McCain was shot down (October 26, 1967) was “To Sir, with Love” by Lulu. “The Letter” by the Box Tops had preceded it as number one earlier in the month.
ABBA did not have a top ten hit in the U.S. until 1974.