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Abba

June 2026

  • Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad

    Original Abba members celebrate expansion of London education programme

    Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad appeared at performance of Abba Voyage for schoolchildren

November 2025

  • man and woman face each other on stage

    Chess review – messy Broadway revival wastes catchy Abba songs

    A 1980s concept album, from Tim Rice and Abba members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, is brought back to the stage with uneven results

September 2025

  • Swedish pop group Abba

    Outcry as Swedish ‘cultural canon’ snubs Abba and anything since 1975

    ‘Shared map’ of Swedish culture that ignores everything since 1975 is ‘nationalist education project’, argue critics

August 2025

  • three people sit on stoop in front of doorway

    Here We Go Again: the enduring appeal of Mamma Mia!

    The blockbuster show has returned to Broadway to further cement its place as the most popular jukebox musical of all time

June 2025

  • Composite of Australian tribute bands

    ‘We’re so big we could do a gig on the moon’: tribute acts on fame, money and what it takes to make it

    Dave Grohl is Bjorn Again’s ‘biggest fan’. Kelly O’Brien took out a loan to buy boobs to match Dolly Parton’s. Four tribute acts reflect on ‘the best job in the world’
  • Abba in 1974

    Under attack from artificial intelligence

    Letters: Abba songwriter Björn Ulvaeus’s position on artists’ copyright is clear, writes Simon McEnery
  • Björn Ulvaeus at SXSW

    Super Trouper meets supercomputer: AI helping Abba star to write musical

    Björn Ulvaeus tells audience at SXSW London the technology is ‘very bad at lyrics’ but has helped him break through creative impasses

April 2025

  • Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding.

    Muriel’s Wedding review – Toni Collette is outstanding in the film that brought Abba back

    Brilliantly led by Collette, PJ Hogan’s 1994 story of a lovable loser was the feelgood sensation that rescued the band’s reputation – how can you resist it?

February 2025

  • Three women sit on sofa

    My feelgood movie
    ‘Delightfully absurd’: why Mamma Mia! is my feelgood movie

    The latest in our series of writers drawing attention to their go-to mood-lifting films is an ode to the hit Abba musical from 2008

December 2024

  • Ben Elton

    10 Chaotic Questions
    Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s all right to say that about a third cousin, right?’

    The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers

October 2024

  • Abba in 1976.

    Book of the day
    The Book of Abba by Jan Gradvall review – dark backstories and new revelations

    From Himmler to herring, a Swedish journalist offers unexpected angles on the 70s supergroup

September 2024

  • English singer and songwriter Elton John performs at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, October 1975.

    From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury and Madonna snogging Britney: 41 era-defining music photos

  • Björn Ulvaeus with Christina Sas.

    Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus remarries with Sandi Toksvig officiating

August 2024

  • Abba

    Abba demand Trump campaign stop using their music at rallies

    Universal Music says footage used in Minnesota featuring Abba songs and videos must be taken down

May 2024

  • From left: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Benny Andersson pose for a photo in a large hallway

    Thank you for the music: Abba members get Swedish knighthoods

  • Olly Alexander and four dancers on stage during his performace.

    Eurovision 2024: everything we learned – from the Abba swizz to the UK’s wild unpopularity

April 2024

  • This year is the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, which started on 25 April 1974.

    When a Eurovision song started a coup

    Letters: Chris Keil on the significance of the Portuguese entry for the 1974 competition. Plus John Lovelock on Abba’s appeal

  • Observer business profile
    ‘It’s their caution and my optimism’: Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer on working with Björn and Benny

    The woman who talked Benny and Bjorn into putting Mamma Mia! on stage 25 years ago this weekend is still ‘having the time of her life’, with a third Abba film possibly in the works
  • ‘The solitary entrants who look like they belong on Top of the Pops rather than in Batley Variety club’ … Abba win the Eurovision song contest in 1974.

    Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!

    Fifty years since Abba won with Waterloo, fans are paying tribute to a pop classic. Its status is a far cry from its origins in a celebration of weedy pop and dodgy lyrics – and, whisper it, ‘nul points’ from Britain

March 2024

  • Shaad D'Souza

    The music industry’s over-reliance on TikTok shows how lazy it has become

    Shaad D'Souza
    ​Universal’s decision to remove its artists from ​T​ikTok ​h​as destabilised both companies – and lays bare how record labels have become reliant on random virality
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