Download or read book Bright Lights Dark Shadows The Real Story of ABBA written by Carl Magnus Palm and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revel in the bright lights of ABBA’s show-stopping musical career, and hear the whispers from the shadows that lurked behind. Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba is the first true, full-scale biography ever written about the band. With lucid prose and an inquisitive eye, author, Carl Palm, covers all aspects of the band’s lives and careers. The period before the group formed; their global domination throughout the 1970s; their marriages and divorces; their business empire and; their eventual, inevitable split.
Download or read book ABBA On Record written by Carl Magnus Palm and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete ABBA 40th Anniversary Edition written by Simon Sheridan and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades ABBA - the combined talents of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - has been a global music phenomenon, clocking up record sales of over 360 million. For the very first time The Complete ABBA compiles all of the Swedish supergroup's singles, albums, TV specials, tours and movies. Beginning with their 1972 debut single People Need Love, the book chronicles the band's incredible story right through to Björn and Benny's triumphant Thank You for the Musictribute concert held in London in 2009, and beyond, to 2012, the band's 40th anniversary. This is all the ABBA you'll ever need!
Download or read book ABBA Song by Song written by Ian Cole and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'ABBA Song by Song' takes a detailed look at every single song by Swedish supergroup ABBA. All of their worldwide hits, the gems hidden on their albums and B sides, and lost songs performed in concert or hidden in the vaults for decades.
Download or read book Abba s Abba Gold written by Elisabeth Vincentelli and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Download or read book ABBA written by Petter Karlsson and published by Weldon Owen. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete and authorized official visual history of ABBA, one of the greatest pop groups of the 20th century. ABBA has sold a stunning 400 million records, and in some markets has even surpassed the Beatles. This first and only official book on ABBA was created with the full cooperation of the band members themselves and containing more than 600 rare and heretofore unseen images from throughout the band’s career. Publishing with the 40th anniversary of ABBA winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which is what put the band on the map, publication is being synchronized worldwide to great media attention. With a foreword and commentary throughout the book by the band’s four members, this is truly the complete story of one of the most popular bands of all time.
Download or read book Abba Uncensored on the Record written by John Tobler and published by Coda Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABBA's was an extraordinary journey through the pages of rock history - it took them from throwaway Eurovision turn to highly respected pop icons. Their story has everything; beautiful girls with incredible voices, love, marriages, break ups, divorces, not to mention some of the most memorable outfits ever seen on a stage. This indispensable eBook provides fans of the band with a perfect career retrospective; it looks beyond the glitz and the glamour to get to the heart of what made ABBA so special. This eBook features a biography of ABBA, along with in-depth interviews with Bj rn Again founder Rod Leissle, record producer Pip Williams, music journalist Hugh Fielder and Anni-Frid Lyngstad herself, who give unique insights into what it was like to work and socialise with the one of the hottest properties the pop industry had ever seen. The book also includes a detailed track-by-track analysis of all ABBA's studio releases.
Download or read book ABBA written by Jean-Marie Potiez and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide, ABBA is the second biggest-selling band of all time, surpassed only by The Beatles. Now,ABBA: The Bookpresents the incredible story of four Swedish folk singers who went on to become one of the most influential pop groups of all time. Spanning their entire career, and featuring 250 color photos, this is the definitive book for all fans.
Download or read book From Abba to Zoom written by David Mansour and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of memories for anyone born in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s features more than three thousande references on everything from television shows to dolls, and features such entertaining lists as "best toys" and "all-time coolest singers." Original.
Download or read book Mamma Mia How Can I Resist You written by Benny Andersson and published by Phoenix Press (UK). This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a double phenomenon: the group who reinvented the world's perception of pop music in the 1970s, and the show based around their hits which became an entertainment industry legend in its own right, opening in over 180 cities and seen by over 32 million people. This paperback edition ends the story with insights into Mamma Mia! the movie and features fascinating interviews with those involved, plus tons of great photos from the set. Through the stories, recollections and reflections of ABBA, intertwined with the commentary and observations of the MAMMA MIA! team and the inside look at the film, this book is one for all ABBA and MAMMA MIA! fans.
Download or read book From ABBA to Mamma Mia written by Carl Magnus Palm and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoying an unprecedented revival, the rock group ABBA is more popular than ever as new reissues of their albums and the touring hit musical "Mama Mia!" thrill legions of fans with their songs. This account of the band's phenomenal success features a foreword by the stars themselves, making it the definitive ABBA book. More than 300 color and 200 bandw illustrations.
Download or read book Benny s Road to Abba written by Carl Magnus Palm and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, Benny Anderson reached worldwide fame as the songwriter and keyboard player in ABBA, one of the all-time classic pop acts. However, his first taste of stardom came a decade earlier, when he was a member of the Hep Stars, Sweden's biggest pop bands of the 1960s. In a marked contrast to ABBA's studio-based career, The Hep Stars swept through the country like a tidal wave, scoring hit after hit and playing hundreds of gigs each year in front of hordes of screaming teens. Benny's Road to ABBA tells the amazing story of Benny's life and career in Swede-pop.
Download or read book Abba written by Carl Magnus Palm and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Abba. An album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by Abba, from Ring Ring in 1973 to The Visitors eight years later. by all four members of the group.
Download or read book Abba for the Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ABBA written by Ian Cole and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2020-02-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABBA was the biggest selling pop group of the Seventies. Between their first single in 1972, when the group was not yet called ABBA, and their final singles in 1982, ABBA recorded and released 98 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 record; and recorded a number of songs that didn't see the light of day at the time, but have been released from the archive the decades since the group 'took a break'; at the end of 1982. Everyone remembers ABBA's biggest 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 21 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 in to recording them, and their impact around the world in the 1970s and 80s and beyond.
Download or read book White Bicycles written by Joe Boyd and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.
Download or read book Abba written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their split in 1982, Abba have now sold in excess of 370 million records worldwide and continue to remain one of the most popular pop bands in the world. With almost 40 years since their explosion onto the pop scene by winning the Eurovision song Contest in 1974, this publication celebrates the hits, the fashion, the relationships, and the legacy of Sweden's biggest export since Volvo.
