7 STORIES
1974 · 70S
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
On April 6, 1974, four Swedes in glittering platform boots walked onto the stage of the Brighton Dome and rewrote the rules of European pop.…
1975 · 70S
— Released in 1975 as the lead single from ABBA's self-titled third album, "Mamma Mia" is a glittering pop confection about the helpless gra…
1976 · 70S
ABBA's "Dancing Queen" (1976) sounds like pure euphoria, but underneath the shimmer lies a quietly melancholic portrait of a young woman's f…
1976 · 70S
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
A song that began as a Swedish-language ballad about heartbreak in a Stockholm suburb somehow became a global meditation on revolution, regr…
1976 · 70S
It sounds like a cheerful anthem to getting rich, but "Money, Money, Money" is really a minor-key lament about a woman trapped in drudgery, …
1977 · 70S
Behind one of the most joyful choruses in pop sits a song about being second choice, a cheerful, almost shameless pitch from someone who kno…
1980 · 80S
A man wrote a breakup song in one late-night burst, and his ex-wife stood at the microphone and sang it to the world. Björn Ulvaeus insists …