Maestros From The Vaults – ABBA: The Ultimate Collection

Experience Abba’s extraordinary journey, with this ultimate Limited Edition DVD collectors, and take a journey beyond the glitz and the glamour, to the heart of what made Abba so special.

Disc 1: World’s Greatest Albums Arrival

The Arrival album took their song writing and studio achievements to new level. To help tell the story of the making of Arrival, the programme enlists the help of a team of respected music industry figures, including Emma Jones and DJ Mick Brown. Also on hand to analyse the album’s wonderful songs, is gifted musician Neal McArthur who deconstructs the playing style of Benny Anderson.

Disc 2: World’s Greatest Albums – The Gold Singles

Drawing on rare ABBA performances from TV and film archives around theworld, this is the first ever independent film review of ABBA Gold. The film draws on the reflections of a team of leading critics, musicologists and working musicians to produce the most authoritative and comprehensive review of a landmark in popular music.

Disc 3: Rock Milestones – The Visitors

The Visitors was the final album by the Swedish pop legends and reflects the turbulent emotions the band was going through at the time. Drawing on rare footage of Abba in performance, this penetrating film critically assesses the album.

Disc 4 and Disc 5: Abba Rock Case Studies – Part 1 and 2

This two part series provides fans of the band with a perfect historical career retrospective. We hear from John Tobler and Jeff Rose, two publicists for the band who give unique insights into what it was like to work with one of the hottest properties the pop industry has ever seen.


Contains previously released ABBA/Arrival – The Ultimate Critical Review, The Gold Singles – The Ultimate Critical Review, ABBA’s The Visitors – The Essential Albums Of All Time, Rock Case Studies

Release:

Released on DVD 12 November 2012