ABBA biography?

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Hello chaps! Can anyone advise me if there is a recommended / definitive biography about ABBA?

Thanks!

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Are you more interested in their awesome music or the gory details of their wuv lives and N4zi parents?

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

both! :)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

To be honest if there's a good book about ABBA's music out there I've not found it yet, so I'd stick with Andrew Loog Oldham's pulpy paperback biography of them, which goes into enough juicy biographical detail while not being wrong or silly about the pop. It's probably called "Thank You For The Music" or "Knowing Me Knowing You" or something like that (I forget what)

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I was watching the ABBA fest on The Hits or whatever, and was really struck by some of lyrics in their songs, considering their relationships and all. Off to have a google!

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Even though it's the law that we cap ABBA whenever we type it, it still always looks wrong on account of that B being backwards.

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was just thinking that myself :)

[spittake.livejournal.com]

Bright Lights, Dark Shadows by Carl Magnus Palm is pretty thorough.

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'll look out for it!