"Abba": Unplugged

by KarlFrench (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $5.80

  A brilliant new perspective. Half-Swedish journalist Karl French brings his inimitable and unique voice to the story of the legendary band which has sold over 400 million records worldwide. Here is the thrilling saga of ambition, kitsch, musical genius, bad hair and strange liaisons.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $17.75

  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.