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Abba

May 2024

  • From left: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Benny Andersson pose for a photo in a large hallway

    Thank you for the music: Abba members get Swedish knighthoods

  • Olly Alexander and four dancers on stage during his performace.

    Eurovision 2024: everything we learned – from the Abba swizz to the UK’s wild unpopularity

April 2024

  • This year is the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, which started on 25 April 1974.

    When a Eurovision song started a coup

    Letters: Chris Keil on the significance of the Portuguese entry for the 1974 competition. Plus John Lovelock on Abba’s appeal

  • Observer business profile
    ‘It’s their caution and my optimism’: Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer on working with Björn and Benny

    The woman who talked Benny and Bjorn into putting Mamma Mia! on stage 25 years ago this weekend is still ‘having the time of her life’, with a third Abba film possibly in the works
  • ‘The solitary entrants who look like they belong on Top of the Pops rather than in Batley Variety club’ … Abba win the Eurovision song contest in 1974.

    Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!

    Fifty years since Abba won with Waterloo, fans are paying tribute to a pop classic. Its status is a far cry from its origins in a celebration of weedy pop and dodgy lyrics – and, whisper it, ‘nul points’ from Britain

March 2024

  • Shaad D'Souza

    The music industry’s over-reliance on TikTok shows how lazy it has become

    Shaad D'Souza
    ​Universal’s decision to remove its artists from ​T​ikTok ​h​as destabilised both companies – and lays bare how record labels have become reliant on random virality

January 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Morrissey, Donald Trump, and Johnny Marr

    ‘Please let me get what I want’: can artists stop politicians from using their songs?

  • L to R: Björn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Benny Andersson of Abba.

    Money, money, money: Abba’s Benny and Björn share in £900,000 payout

  • Future norm? (L-R) Doja Cat, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus.

    Female pop stars celebrate record-breaking year on UK singles chart

  • Taylor Swift, Charles Brown and Jeff Buckley, all writers of classic new year songs.

    ‘Feel no shame for what you are’: the greatest songs about the new year

November 2023

  • Abba pose for a photo on stage

    The subtle melancholy of Abba provides me with solace against the mean world

    Joseph Earp
    As society has renewed its desire to be cruel, we turn inward to our comforts, looking for warmth

October 2023

  • The Rolling Stones backstage at Racket NYC on October 19, 2023.

    Keith Richards: Rolling Stones hologram performance is ‘bound to happen’

    Guitarist says he doesn’t know if he wants ‘to hang around that long’ to see Abba Voyage-style recreation of the band
  • Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream

    The watcher
    Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream: an Abba-themed musical TV contest? The prospect is horrific

    Will we ever get sick of watching someone or something sing Waterloo? Apparently not, judging by this ITV reality series – and yet it’s way more fun than it sounds
  • Agnetha Fältskog of Abba in 2022.

    ‘It’s difficult to look upon yourself as an icon’: Abba’s Agnetha Fältskog on fame, family and her secret songs

    In between caring for her dogs, cats, chickens and horses, the reclusive superstar has overseen new versions of old solo tracks. She recalls the stress and sadness in Abba, their blockbuster Voyage project, and the music she never lets the world hear

June 2023

  • Andrew Treagus, theatre producer, for obituaries

    Andrew Treagus obituary

    One of Britain’s leading theatrical general managers responsible for the transfer of big Broadway musicals to the West End

May 2023

  • Digital avatars perform to 3,000 fans at the Abba area in east London on Saturday.

    Benny, Björn and Frida drop in for first anniversary of London’s Abba Voyage

  • The Swedish pop group Abba with its members (L-R) Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus in 1974.

    ‘It’s a no’: Abba rule out appearing at 50th anniversary of Eurovision win

  • ‘My people use music as a very powerful tool’ … Loreen.

    ‘I’m a very spiritual person!’ Eurovision winner Loreen on fear, fame, family and fighting for human rights

  • Conchita Wurst of Austria singing the winning Rise Like a Phoenix at 2014’s Eurovision Song Contest

    Ranked
    All 69 Eurovision song contest winners – ranked!

April 2023

  • Björn Ulvaeus with Josie Felix

    Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus says avatars are the future after millionth fan sees Voyage

    Star present in person to greet Josie Felix at group’s show in east London where digital band members perform their hits
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