Swedish pop savants — Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson — ruled 1970s radio. - Credit: RB/Redferns/Getty Under the glitzy surface, these Björn-to-be-wild Swedes ...
Tribute bands are mostly a mixed bag for most music fans. Sure, some of them are just as wild and powerful as the actual band themselves, but others can lean a bit too hard into the gimmick. In the ...
It's been 50 years since Abba won the 1974 Eurovision song contest with Waterloo and were catapulted to international pop stardom. Accompanying them on that journey was the Abba logo, one of the best ...
This particular shiny pop nugget landed right in the center of the decade and secretly impressed the grizzled rockers as much ...
In 1974 the little known Swedish pop group Abba swept to superstardom with their Eurovision winning ?Waterloo’, and four decades later the song and the band remain as popular as ever. Now the ...
I’ve seen the best. The maddest and the fieriest and the deepest and the heaviest. I’ve watched them, open-mouthed: HR, from Bad Brains, executing a perfect backflip to land crisply on the band’s last ...
An ABBA tribute band from Toronto Canada is set to take the stage as the highlight of the Scandinavian Folk Festival this summer. This year marks the 50th anniversary of ABBA making it big on the ...
"We're fans of lots of great songwriters that aren't necessarily seen as very hip," Bono's bandmate, The Edge, admitted on BBC Radio 2's Piano Room Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer ...
The group is composed of members Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Björn Ulvaeus Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.
Many bands and artists start off in a mode that’s comfortable to them in the beginning of their careers. The best of them manage to keep developing in new and exciting ways, due to both a natural ...
ABBA members (from left) Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, AnniFrid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson wear motion-capture suits to record their upcoming virtual show. ABBA via Getty Images ABBA is back and ...