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This entertaining, not uncritical work is far more stylish than most group portraits. (Sunday Telegraph )
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In April 1974, 500 million television viewers across Europe witnessed the bizarrely thrilling sight of four garishly-dressed unknowns from Sweden storm their way to victory in the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was 'Waterloo'. Abba had arrived.Over the next three decades, the band moved on through an almost unbroken succession of hit albums and singles. Abba have sold some 400 million records around the world, and their songs inspired a musical which since opening in October 2001 has been seen by more than 10 million people. In Abba: Unplugged, Karl French, a journalist and author specialising in popular culture, brings his inimitable wry perception to bear on the band's whole story. Born in Sweden, and raised in England, he comes to the subject as someone with first-hand knowledge of the very particular social and political climate from which Abba emerged. He has been a fan - although not necessarily an uncritical one - for three decades.
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A good book if you're after a solid history of ABBA, not just during their heyday but before and afterwards.
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ABBA: an introduction
11 April 2009
This is a good read and not the sycophantic drivel one usually gets in pop biographies. It's really a review of the music (which, after all, is what's important) and quite informative for someone like myself who knows nothing about ABBA. Karl French writes well and with dry humour.
One research flaw is found on page 17. French writes that Benny's song "Sunny Girl" has "strong echoes of the Searchers, especially "I'll Never Find Another You..." WRONG! "I'll Never Find Another You" is by The Seekers.
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One research flaw is found on page 17. French writes that Benny's song "Sunny Girl" has "strong echoes of the Searchers, especially "I'll Never Find Another You..." WRONG! "I'll Never Find Another You" is by The Seekers.
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