The Gist: “It’s a damp squib – it’s going to end. Tacky, plastic.” Leave it to the snippy British music press of the early 1970s to put a damper on ABBA’s success, just as they’d found it. Despite the ...

It’s official: Any song can sound sad when it’s slowed down and played on piano. Kelly Clarkson proved it to be so when she turned one of ABBA‘s happiest hits, “Dancing Queen,” into a melancholy ...

There’s more to ABBA than its hit 1976 song “Dancing Queen.” Such as the romance-novel arc of the famous Swedish group’s story offstage. “They were two married couples,” said Alison Ward, who portrays ...

circa 1975: Swedish pop group ABBA (L-R: Benny Andersson, Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus), wearing similar white Asian-influenced costumes, perform for the television program Midnight ...

Agnetha. Björn. Benny. Anni-Frid. All four are superstars in their own right, but when they came together in 1972 to form Swedish supergroup ABBA, they changed the world of music forever. The group — ...

Harding is Frida in "Mania: The ABBA Tribute," a show that originated in London in 1999 and has played on the West End there ...

ABBA: Against The Odds (Netflix) travels back 50-plus years to 1974, when Sweden first gave ABBA to the world. A band of two couples, Agnetha Fȁltskog and Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad ...