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About ABBA

The most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s, the origins of the Swedish superstars ABBA dated back to 1966, when keyboardist and vocalist Benny Andersson, a onetime member of the popular beat outfit the Hep Stars, first teamed with guitarist and vocalist Bjorn Ulvaeus, the leader of the folk-rock unit the Hootenanny Singers. The two performers began composing songs together and handling session and production work for Polar Music/Union Songs, a publishing company owned by Stig Anderson, himself a prolific songwriter throughout the 1950s and 1960s. At the same time, both Andersson and Ulvaeus worked on projects with their respective girlfriends: Ulvaeus had become involved with vocalist Agnetha Faltskog, a performer with a recent number one Swedish hit, 'I Was So in Love,' under her belt, while Andersson began seeing Anni-Frid Lyngstad, a one-time jazz singer who rose to fame by winning a national talent contest.
In 1971, Faltskog ventured into theatrical work, accepting the role of Mary Magdalene in a Swedish production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar; her cover of the musical's 'Don't Know How to Love Him' became a significant hit. The following year, the duo of Andersson and Ulvaeus scored a massive international hit with 'People Need Love,' which featured Faltskog and Lyngstad on backing vocals. The record's success earned them an invitation to enter the Swedish leg of the 1973 Eurovision song contest, where, under the unwieldy name of Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida, they submitted 'Ring Ring,' which proved extremely popular with audiences but placed only third in the judges' ballots.
The next year, rechristened ABBA (a suggestion from Stig Anderson and an acronym of the members' first names), the quartet submitted the single 'Waterloo,' and became the first Swedish act to win the Eurovision competition. The record proved to be the first of many international hits, although the group hit a slump after their initial success as subsequent singles failed to chart. In 1975, however, ABBA issued 'S.O.S.,' a smash not only in America and Britain but also in non-English speaking countries such as Spain, Germany and the Benelux nations, where the group's success was fairly unprecedented. A string of hits followed, including 'Mamma Mia,' 'Fernando,' and 'Dancing Queen' (ABBA's sole U.S. chart-topper), further honing their lush, buoyant sound; by the spring of 1976, they were already in position to issue their first Greatest Hits collection.
ABBA's popularity continued in 1977, when both 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' and 'The Name of the Game' dominated airwaves. The group also starred in the feature film ABBA -- The Movie, which was released in 1978. That year Andersson and Lyngstad married, as had Ulvaeus and Faltskog in 1971, although the latter couple separated a few months later; in fact, romantic suffering was the subject of many songs on the quartet's next LP, 1979's Voulez-Vous. Shortly after the release of 1980s Super Trouper, Andersson and Lyngstad divorced as well, further straining the group dynamic; The Visitors, issued the following year, was the final LP of new ABBA material, and the foursome officially disbanded after the December 1982 release of their single 'Under Attack.'
Although all of the group's members soon embarked on new projects -- both Lyngstad and Faltskog issued solo LPs, while Andersson and Ulvaeus collaborated with Tim Rice on the musical Chess -- none proved as successful as the group's earlier work, largely because throughout much of the world, especially Europe and Australia, the ABBA phenomenon never went away. Repackaged hits compilations and live collections continued hitting the charts long after the group's demise, and new artists regularly pointed to the quartet's inspiration: while the British dance duo Erasure released a covers collection, ABBA-esque, an Australian group called Bjorn Again found success as ABBA impersonators. In 1993, 'Dancing Queen' became a staple of U2's 'Zoo TV' tour -- Andersson and Ulvaeus even joined the Irish superstars on-stage in Stockholm -- while the 1995 feature Muriel's Wedding, which won acclaim for its depiction of a lonely Australian girl who seeks refuge in ABBA's music, helped bring the group's work to the attention of a new generation of moviegoers and music fans. ~ Jason Ankeny

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Biography

ABBA appeared in June 1966 shortly after Björn Ulvaeus met Benny Andersson at a party. At that time they had already been successful musicians: Björn was a member of the Hootenanny Singers, and Benny played keyboards in The Hep Stars. In 1969 two women appeared in their lives: Agnetha Fältskog, a solo singer, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. In some time they became not only the members of one band, but spouses - Agnetha and Björn were married in July 1971. Anni-Frid, better known as Frida, became Benny's wife in October 1978. First, their band was called Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. The songs People Need Love and Ring Ring (that won the third position at the Eurovision Song Contest) were released under this name. In 1973 Stig Anderson, the manager of the band, began calling them ABBA, as the name Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid was very inconvenient. The band worked hard to gain popularity. The first most successful song of ABBA was Waterloo (1974), it won the first position in Eurovision contest at Brighton Dome in England and became a real hit. In 1974 ABBA made the first international tour round Germany, Denmark and Austria. The tour was not as profitable as the musicians wanted it to be, but they received a very warm welcome in Scandinavia.

The following years the popularity of ABBA got unprecedented growth. The album ABBA (1975) and singles SOS and Mamma Mia were in the top lists in the USA and the European countries. In November 1975 ABBA released the album Greatest Hits that contained their most popular songs and the song Fernando, originally written in Swedish for Frida. The next album Arrival (1976) got wonderful reviews from the most powerful European and American critics with the songs Money, Money, Money, Knowing Me, Knowing You, Dancing Queen. In 1977 ABBA started a tour round Europe and its members were treated like superstars everywhere. Then ABBA gave 11 concerts in Australia, gaining remarkable success there and shooting a film ABBA: The Movie. In December 1977 the band released one more work The Album, but it was not as popular as the previous one though included several hits such as The Name of the Game and Take A Chance On Me. In April 1979 the album Voulez-Vous gained the first place in Europe and Japan and was best-selling in Canada, Australia and the USA. The best known songs of this album were Chiquitita, Does Your Mother Know, Voulez-Vous and I Have A Dream. In 1979 ABBA released an album Greatest Hits Vol. 2, with a new track Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) on it. This song became the most popular disco-hit in Europe. But the divorce of Agnetha and Björn threw a shadow on the reputation of ABBA.

Gradually the popularity of the band started falling. During the tour over Japan it became clear that the character of the songs had changed: they became more personal. The new album Super Trouper, released in 1980, was allegedly dedicated to the personal problems of Björn and Agnetha. The song The Winner Takes It All was the best-known on this album. The album Gracias Por La Música written in Spanish gained ABBA popularity in Spanish-speaking countries. In 1981 Björn married another woman; Benny and Frida announced their divorce. After that Björn and Benny wrote several songs and the band took part in the TV program Dick Cavett Meets ABBA where they performed in public for the last time. Björn and Benny started writing texts for the musical Chess; Frida and Agnetha revived their solo careers. In spite of its break ABBA is thought to be one the most successful pop-groups in the world. In 1999 the musical Mamma Mia was created. This creation was based on 22 compositions of ABBA including Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me and Mamma Mia. This fact proves that the popularity of the band did not fade away with the passing of the years. Later the former members of ABBA were offered an impressive sum of money for the reunion of the band, but they did not agree saying that new ABBA would not be able to gain the preceding success and would disappoint its fans.

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