Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

by Carl Magnus Palm

Overview

This new edition of the best-selling ABBA book has been updated to include details of Mamma Mia!'s extraordinary success and the ongoing lives of Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog, their music and their personal lives. It has also been substantially revised throughout.

As generations of new fans discover ABBA's timeless music, Frida, Agnetha, Benny and Björn remain rather shadowy, secretive figures. Their marriages, personal break-ups and superficial biographical details are well known...but who exactly are ABBA?

World renowned ABBA expert Carl Magnus Palm's acute understanding of the culture of his native Sweden offers a unique insight into the group, and their sometimes dark personal stories.

Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA is the ultimate account of the rise and fall of a legendary group and a biography of rare perception.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783053599
Publisher:	Omnibus Press
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Pages:	642
Sales rank:	522,247
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Stockholm based writer Carl Magnus Palm is recognised as the world’s foremost Abba historian. 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!, a collaboration with Anders Hanser, photographer and close friend of Abba. Palm was involved in putting together the Abba CD box set Thank You For the Music and has also contributed liner notes to several Abba related CDs most notably the remastered version of the compilation album Abba Gold and the re-issue of Abba’s original albums.

Also Known As:

Música Movimento Magia

Editorial Reviews

'Essential reading for anyone wondering what the pop world looked like in the 1970's' MOJO

'Achieves the difficult feat of capturing the multiple layers of Abba... with a deftness unusual in a rock biography' Sunday Times

'An extraordinary book. 'Dancing Queen' will never sound the same again' Q Magazine

From the Publisher

It ain’t exactly Keith Richards’s LIFE, full of hair-raising stories of rock-and-roll, but, as its title implies, this book exposes the humanity behind the otherworldly presence that is the Swedish band Abba. In the 1970s they were pioneers of dance pop and world music while maintaining a sleek, detached edge that, at times, made them seem cold and calculating. The text is delivered deftly by Adrian Mulraney, whose familiarity with stage performance in Australian theater makes him a natural for the high drama of Abba's up-and-down saga. His voice resonates with a condescending tone that decries the ego game of pop success while revealing the intimate details of the musicians’ personal lives. J.S.H. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

JULY 2012 - AudioFile