Tribute bands are mostly a mixed bag for most music fans. Sure, some of them are just as wild and powerful as the actual band themselves, but others can lean a bit too hard into the gimmick. In the ...

Some believe that creating books is a talent of the elite, others that the printed word is a manipulation of the masses. As fireman Montag asserts in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, “Maybe the books ...

That Sweden is perennially ranked as one of the world’s happiest countries comes through loud and clear in the buoyant music of ABBA. The ’70s Swedish quartet is still revered for the perky melodies, ...

Can it really be fifty years ago? Please don't tell me a whole half-century has passed since Abba first appeared on the scene, winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with a song called ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The band was led by Wilders on keys, joined by David Cinquegrana, Colin Dean, ...

There’s more to ABBA than its hit 1976 song “Dancing Queen.” Such as the romance-novel arc of the famous Swedish group’s story offstage. “They were two married couples,” said Alison Ward, who portrays ...

Agnetha. Björn. Benny. Anni-Frid. All four are superstars in their own right, but when they came together in 1972 to form Swedish supergroup ABBA, they changed the world of music forever. The group — ...

Over four decades after Swedish pop legends ABBA swept to stardom, their music remains as popular as ever and the magic of the era is being brought to stages across the country courtesy of ARRIVAL – ...

It's really no surprise that the hit music of ABBA was transferred into the backbone of a massively popular musical. The candy-coated, spot-on vocals, emotive lyrics and flowery orchestration of the ...

While being interviewed recently on the New York Living TV show, Bachman shared some of the artists he considers to be the most accomplished at composing great pop and rock songs. “If you’re a ...