Abba
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Since its 1976 release, Abba’s ‘absolute best song’ (according to Frida Lyngstad) has won over everyone from punks to royalty and almost caused a riot in New York. So how has the song’s low-lit Friday night managed to last for ever?
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He’s got a new solo album, Civil Dusk, but Fanning is happy to talk about his old band, and Abba and James Taylor too
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In a week of EU absurdities, at least Vote Leave has the good sense to keep its unpopular senior figures out of the limelight
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Fans delighted by impromptu singalong to Me and I at a Stockholm gala to celebrate 50 years since Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met
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More than four decades after its release, Abba’s hit is one of the most frequently downloaded of all Eurovision-winning songs. So what makes a winner a commercial hit too?
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Björn Ulvaeus says leave vote would make him sad, with remain camp welcoming his comments, made before Eurovision
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Jude Rogers explores how children relate to pop music – and gets a panel of young critics to rate the latest next big things
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As amateur sleuths pored over Blackstar, Abba reunited to plug a Stockholm taverna and Yasiin Bey got into a spot of bother with South African officials
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ABBA are seen together for the first time since 2008. Video taken by @kaspersen shows the four former-band members together on a stage at the opening of an Abba-themed restaurant in Stockholm. Unfortunately for fans there wasn’t a microphone in sight.
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The band once offered $1bn to reform were photographed in the same room for the first time since 2008 – to open an Abba-themed restaurant
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Music blog Is Adele living in an Abba song?
Michael HannIt may be 35 years since it topped the UK charts, but Abba’s Super Trouper still nails the loneliness of life on the road. Which is why Adele refers to it
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Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes
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I’ve donned the spandex every night for four years, on tour and in New York. When the Abba musical closes tonight, it will seem like the end of an era
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Piano on which 1976 disco hit’s famous opening glissando was played is expected to sell for up to £800,000
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Cheesy, catchy, cliched? Soppy, sexy, stupid? Search your shelves for songs that produce such a strong, ripe reaction they will help sort the bad from the Gouda, says Peter Kimpton
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He loves Bach’s St John Passion, loathes Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies and has a soft spot for Abba – the pianist who performs on the opening night of this year’s Proms tells us about his musical passions
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The co-founder of the supergroup takes us on a tour of ‘the world’s most beautiful capital’ – and reveals which costume in the Abba museum makes him ‘cry out in pain’
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Caribbean to Coney Island, Crusoe to Craggy, tropical to topical, name your best isle-related songs that offer escape to fantasy or a prism of reality, says Peter Kimpton
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Flared trousers have been around a long time, but only one decade really embraced them: the 1970s. Here we look back at the bell-bottomed days of yore
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Hidden messages, furtive feelings, lyrical leaks, surreptitious spying, suggest your selections about the covert and hush-hush – it will all come out in song form, says Peter Kimpton
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This year our writers had a dinner date with Taylor, listened to Abba impersonate drug dealers and even got on Dolly Parton’s tour bus – so let’s relive our favourite musical interviews of 2014
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But home secretary stonewalls when asked on Radio 4 show whether she wants to be prime minister
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Sunderland’s manager, Gus Poyet, admits to seeing Mamma Mia, has yet to hear Abba in his team’s dressing room and does not like the thinking behind Roy Keane’s latest autobiography
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Take away the big hair, Abba and pop socks and you have young people battling the same problems as today's teens – and that's why teenagers still want to read books published back when teen lit was born, says Sweet Dreams author Janet Quin-Harkin
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Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes
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Zoe Williams: Searching for the Abba documentary, I happened on a real-life Icelandic murder mystery
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Letters: The really affecting moment in the song for me is the little catch in Agnetha's voice on the words 'You've come to shake my hand'
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