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Joy of ABBA

Mark Cooper

Ben Whalley

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Music: Classic Pop & Rock

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

27/12/2013

BBC Four - The Joy of ABBA

How ABBA raised the bar for pop and made us fall in love with Swedish melancholy.

Documentary which explores how ABBA, between 1974 and 1982, raised the bar for pop music as an art form and made people fall in love with the sound of Swedish melancholy.

Between 1974 and 1982, ABBA plundered the Anglo-Saxon charts but divided critical opinion. This documentary explores how they raised the bar for pop music as a form and made us fall in love with the sound of Swedish melancholy. A saga about the soul of pop.

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