The definitive, up-to-date telling of the ABBA story
Gold Award Winner at the New York Festivals (Music Doc category) – October 2021
Winner of five 2020 Remi Gold Awards at Worldfest Houston
ABBA Forever – The Winner Takes It All is the definitive up-to-date telling of the ABBA story featuring all four members of the band. It’s been fifty years since ABBA’s founders met forty years since their last concert and twenty years since the stage show Mamma Mia! became a worldwide phenomenon.
This new, multi-Gold Award winning, in-depth music documentary tells their story from the birth of the band to today. Packed full of new interviews, commentary and special sequences filmed with the four band members of ABBA, plus rare archive footage and a feast of ABBA songs.
ABBA band members talk about their lives, their songs and how it all came to be. Guests include Pete Waterman, Bono, Donny Osmond, Neil Sedaka, Barbara Dickson, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini and ABBA engineer Michael Tretow.
DVD INCLUDES EXTENDED CLIPS OF THE FOLLOWING TRACKS:
Waterloo – Dancing Queen – The Winner Takes It All – Fernando – I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do – SOS – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! – Knowing Me, Knowing You – Money, Money, Money – Does Your Mother Know? – The Winner Takes It All – The Day Before You Came – Super Trouper – Ring, Ring – Thank You For The Music – Chiquitita – and (of course!) Mamma Mia!
Broadcast:
First broadcast on PBS stations in USA August 2019
Later broadcast internationally
Release:
Released on DVD 10 December 2021
See also:
Updated version of The Winner Takes It All – The ABBA Story, Super Troupers – A Celebratory Film from Waterloo to MAMMA MIA! – 30 years of music, ABBA – Thank You For The Music
Later updated as ABBA Silver, ABBA Gold


