The deep secret of Abba’s “music without nostalgia” and the time they met the Pistols
Abba’s biographer Jan Gradvall met and interviewed Abba many times and builds a fresh picture of their internal chemistry in his new book Melancholy Undercover. Highlights of this illuminating pod include … … how Sweden rejected their early hits for not being sufficiently “socialist”. …. the discomfiting early life of Anni-Frid Lyngstad. … what Max Martin and Denniz Pop thought made Abba’s music so durable. … Strindberg, Bergman, the climate, the eight months of darkness and the role of melancholia in Swedish pop culture. … the influence of the Human League on their later catalogue. … why…
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