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 ...

(CBS11) - During the 1970's, the Swedish pop/disco group ABBA was probably one of the more commercially successful pop rock quartets. Formed in 1972 in Stockholm, the group consisted of Anni-Frid ...

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 — ...

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 ...