Anni-Frid Lyngstad

ABBA museum to sell exclusive Efva Attling jewelry

2013-05-08 15:29:00

The gift shop of the recently opened ABBA museum in Stockholm is stocking an exclusive collection of jewelry inspired by the band and its music and designed by fellow Swede Efva Attling. According to Wednesday's press announcement, the eponymous...

'Dancing Queen' on display: ABBA museum opens in Sweden

2013-05-07 06:55:00

With no ABBA reunion in sight, patrons can take a chance on a new museum devoted to the 1970s Swedish pop super-group. Opening Tuesday in Stockholm, the museum will display band memorabilia, including star-shaped guitars, gold records, concert footage...

A modest proposal for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2010-03-16 16:34:41

Brand X Files: ABBA hints at reforming. Violence against Republicans? Facebook dismisses V.D. link.

2010-03-26 16:35:44

ABBA set reveals more than one-hit wonder

2009-03-24 00:00:00

Did ABBA ever make a bad record? For fans of the Swedish group's nearly two dozen U.S. hits, including ear candy like "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia," it's probably hard to imagine anything not being close to irresistible. Sure enough: a new, nine-disc...

Oh 'Mamma Mia,' you're showing your age

2012-01-25 13:43:00

The director, Phyllida Lloyd, has moved on to a movie about Margaret Thatcher, but the song stylings of ABBA will surely outlast the Iron Lady. And "Mamma Mia!", the story of a girl with three potential dads on a Greek island where they have no Facebook,...

Abbamania at Arcadia

2011-02-07 21:00:00

By SANDY WOJCIK Daily American Correspondent WINDBER – A tribute band for all ages, Abbamania, will grace the stage of the Arcadia Theater, 1418 Graham Ave., at 8 p.m. Feb. 19. ABBAMANIA has been selling out to audiences all over the world for the...

McCain's musical taste: Pre-ABBA?

2008-08-16 16:24:13

by Aamer Madhani Sen. John McCain has gotten a lot of ribbing about his confounding -- in this Swamp thing's opinion -- affection of the 1970s Scandinavian pop band ABBA. On Thursday, Walter Isaacson was the latest pundit to publicly......

Totally polished, perfect pop

2001-05-20 00:00:00

Some guilty pleasures survive simply as convenient punching bags. Menudo? Milli Vanilli? The William Shatner solo album? But when the jokes are at the expense of ABBA, they're inevitably told with affection, because only a curmudgeon could resist...

Super trouper

2001-05-20 00:00:00

There was a time, Bjorn Ulvaeus remembers, when ABBA was all but extinct. "It was in the mid-1980s," he says. "It was over. I was convinced we would be forgotten and never be played again." How wrong he was! ABBA, the Swedish quartet that had been a pop...

Bjorn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid 'Frida' Synni Lyngstad, former members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, sit by their outfits from the 1974 winning Eurovision song contest performance of 'Waterloo' in Brighton , at the ABBA World exhibition in Earls Court London.

2010-01-26 00:00:00