Ian Cole
ABBA was the biggest-selling pop group of the Seventies. Between their first single in 1972 and final singles in 1982, ABBA released ninety-eight unique songs. In addition, they recorded versions of some of their biggest hits in Swedish, German, French and Spanish; performed a number of songs in concert that were never released on vinyl; and recorded several songs that didn’t see the light of day at the time, but have been released from the archive in the decades since the group ‘took a break’. Everyone remembers ABBA’s worldwide hits – songs like ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Take a Chance On Me’, ‘Chiquitita’ and ‘The Winner Takes It All’ – but there are many gems to be found on the eight studio albums and thirty-one singles released during the group’s lifetime.
ABBA: Song by Song is a look at every single song by the Swedish supergroup, written by a life-long ABBA fan. Find out what inspired the songs, what went into recording them and their impact around the world in the 1970s and 80s and beyond.
Published:
Published 6 March 2020
Additional chapter published online 13 June 2024
See also:
ABBA Omnibus 