Abba: Bright Lights Dark Shadows (Updated edition): Bright Lights Dark Shadows New Edition

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This biography is about as complete as you can get and covers a wealth of information about each member as well as their manager Stig Anderson. Oversize; page edges slightly age-toned; rubbing to DJ with very light wear to edges and corners ; Height: 11. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Access to numerous archives has enabled me to retrace their step, detailing all their activities and tours before and after they came together as ABBA the group, and following the success of ABBA in Scandinavia, the UK and the rest of Europe, Australia and the United States.

With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and first-hand accounts, this is the perfect gift for ABBA fans everywhere.

Though the book is mainly text based, plenty of illustrations – in the shape of single and album sleeves, vintage ads, newspaper and magazine clippings and previously unpublished photos from both professional agencies and private collections of former colleagues of Frida – are included as well. For the first time, the career of each member of the group prior to the formation of ABBA is pieced together. His earlier books include Abba: The Complete Recording Sessions , which was based on extensive interviews with all four Abba members, From Abba to Mamma Mia! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. And, for the very first time, after reading this book, I actually KNOW the names of all four members of ABBA!

International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. The sections that detail the intricate finances and dealings of Polar Music slow the book down but still make interesting reading even though much of it was beyond my comprehension. The primary thing I take away from this: being rich and famous isn't all that it is panned out to be, I suppose. The only thing negative I can say is that it delves into the business aspect of Polar Music and all their various investments (and failures) and those parts tend to drag.This book is the best that I’ve seen in its field”, says ABBA’s art director Rune Söderqvist in his foreword to Let’s talk about ABBA, the brand new interview book about ABBA. An in-depth book which explores the background of each of the members of ABBA as well as their manager, Stig Andersson; their rise to fame; their personal lives behind the scenes of ABBA; and what they’ve been doing during the nineties on their second-wave rise.

The book set includes a foreword by the esteemed theatre director and arts producer Jude Kelly CBE, who curated both official ABBA: Super Troupers exhibitions in London.In a series of gripping interviews with ABBA's inner circle, Van Wymeersch explores why ABBA was so successful. Abba were a clean group and they still didn't have the type of ruinous scandals and excess,which destroy the lives of many other musicians. It covers the years before ABBA existed, when each member was solo act, through their peak years and through their hiatus (the band will still tell you they never officially broke up) and everything that came afterwards.