Since her father is a longtime music journalist and her mother is a musician, it was inevitable that my 10-year-old daughter would fall in love with music. But I never imagined that the music she […]
Coldplay brought Steve Coogan on stage as his infamous, inept media personality Alan Partridge to cover some of the character’s favorite numbers from ABBA and Kate Bush. The performance took place over the weekend at the […]
ABBA Voyage, the digital avatars playing in London. Image by Tim Sandle. ABBA are back, at least virtually. Playing in London is the show ABBA Voyage, using digitally recorded avatars of the four band members, […]
It’s been 50 years, and ABBA is still at it. The group formed in 1972, and their career really took off when they won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974. Now, the foursome are known […]
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The Abba digital avatars, or Abbatars, as they’ve been nicknamed, on stage in the Abba Arena are designed to transport the audience back to the group’s 1970s heyday. Hannah Moore speaks to producers of the […]
‘I danced, sang, cried’ Sophia Nadur and her partner, Hua He. Photograph: Sophia Nadur/Guardian Community The Abba Voyage concert is stunning. I danced, sang, cried and stood in jaw-dropping awe at the theatre. It is […]
It starts with The Visitors, an icy, electronic track in which authoritarian agents hammer on the door of a fearful dissident – not the Abba you expected to come calling in this trailblazing, retro-futurist extravaganza […]
ABBA made their first public appearance together in six years on Thursday. The Swedish pop group – made up of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – walked the red carpet at […]
The opening of Abba’s Voyage show is undoubtedly an event – even the band’s most famously publicity-shy member, Agnetha Fältskog, is in attendance – but it’s one accompanied by a genuine sense of mystery. If […]
Just over 41 years ago, Abba played their last concert together. It wasn’t a live show for salivating fans, but a short set for Swedish TV. A highlight was their recent hit Super Trouper, a […]