The Swedish quartet's songs from the 1970s and early '80s have stuck around through covers, films, and stage shows.
If you want the upbeat side, "Super Trouper" holds up. For something with more weight, "When All Is Said And Done" does the job.
They won Eurovision in 1974 with "Waterloo," which opened doors internationally. Songs like "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia" basically defined a chunk of that decade's pop sound. Their catalog even includes language versions like the French "Waterloo" and Spanish "Ring Ring," showing how far their reach went.
ABBA formed in Stockholm in the early 1970s. Personal changes within the group, like Ulvaeus and Fältskog's divorce, fed into later tracks such as "The Winner Takes It All." They stopped recording together in the early 1980s.
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