ABBA: ABBA – The Album (Deluxe Edition)
Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Music, October 2007
AS CAREER trajectories for top-level pop groups go, certain aspects of the ABBA story could almost serve as a textbook example. "The first tentative steps", "the breakthrough", "the temporary setback" and then "the whirlwind conquering of a global audience" had all been checked off the list between the first single, 'People Need Love', in 1972 and their fourth album, Arrival, in 1976.
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