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"More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. In 2013, when the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years, Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade and the result is [this book]. Agnetha Fèaltskog, Bjèorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad all share their personal stories, their thoughts, and their opinions about ABBA's music more openly than ever before. Weaving in and out of their story, ... Gradvall reveals the context in which their unique sound developed…mehr

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"More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. In 2013, when the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years, Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade and the result is [this book]. Agnetha Fèaltskog, Bjèorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad all share their personal stories, their thoughts, and their opinions about ABBA's music more openly than ever before. Weaving in and out of their story, ... Gradvall reveals the context in which their unique sound developed and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalization of pop culture"--]cProvided by publisher.
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JAN GRADVALL is an award-winning writer and Sweden's most respected music journalist in the last 40 years. He has written several books on popular culture. Gradvall is the recipient of the Swedish Publicists' Association's Grand Prize in 2013 for and won Journalist of the Year awarded by trade organization Sweden's Magazines in 2001. Gradvall was also instrumental in the founding of the Swedish Music Hall of Fame and served as chairman the first three years since its inauguration. He has a uniquely close journalistic relationship with ABBA, and has appeared in two BBC documentaries, The Joy of ABBA and Flatpack Pop about the Swedish songwriting phenomenon.