Twinge of Saudade
Chal Ravens: Abbamania, 26 December 2024
The Book of Abba: Melancholy Undercover
by Jan Gradvall, translated by Sarah Clyne Sundberg.
Faber, 324 pp., £20, October,978 0 571 39098 4 Show More
by Jan Gradvall, translated by Sarah Clyne Sundberg.
Faber, 324 pp., £20, October,
Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Definitive Biography of Abba
by Carl Magnus Palm.
Omnibus, 697 pp., £14.99, October,978 1 915841 47 6 Show More
by Carl Magnus Palm.
Omnibus, 697 pp., £14.99, October,
“... their sadness behind smiles. ‘Even the happier songs are melancholy at their core,’ Benny told Jan Gradvall for the band’s ‘approved’ biography. The blues weren’t native to Sweden, but ‘we had some kind of blues,’ he noted in his Hall of Fame speech, ‘because above the 59th latitude from eastern Russia, through Finland, into ... ”
