Description

Published by: Bonnier Fakta 2014
79 pages written in English with lots of memorabilia
Written by: Ingmarie Halling

Still sealed hardbound cover with slicpase.

Brighton 1974. Abba, an unknown group from Sweden, wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo. For Anni-Frid (Frida), Benny, Björn and Agnetha, it is the beginning of an extraordinary success story. Abba is soon one of the world’s leading pop groups. The hit songs follow one another: Waterloo, Dancing queen, Chiquitita, Super trouper, Fernando, The winner takes it all, Thank you for the music … Songs that have become classics! In ABBA Backstage stories, Ingmarie Halling, costume designer during ABBA’s foreign tours and today curator at ABBA The Museum, tells personally and with a twinkle in her eye, about the exciting touring years and about what happened backstage; what no one has told about before. About all the fun behind the scenes and about the fantastic clothes that contributed to the group’s fame. Journalist Carl Magnus Palm describes the history of ABBA, from Ring ring 1973 to the present day. And many of those who were there – not least Frida, Benny, Björn and Agnetha – contribute their memories. ABBA Backstage stories is an exciting scrapbook, richly illustrated with many private photos from the photo albums of those who were there when it happened. Frida, Benny, Björn and Agnetha have also each written a personal foreword to the book. From Frida’s foreword: “Ingmarie, our friend, what a lovely diary you have written about a time in our lives that in many ways shaped us into the people we are today. What you tell is a piece of music history in which we have all been a part, an unusual and creative youth when everything was easy and fun. Dreams that became truths and truths that became history.” ABBA Backstage stories also contains unique facsimiles of memorabilia from ABBA’s tours.

Authorized and with a foreword by the four band members themselves.