Joe Matera explores the story behind ABBA’s 1975 breakthrough album with new interviews, historical research and personal insight.
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Stevie Smith, the twentieth century English poet (not the current Australian batter), was most well-known for her poem entitled ‘Not Waving but Drowning’, in which she described how a crowd watched a ...

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ABBA's classic Mamma Mia is a vibrant anthem that sparks instant happiness and camaraderie. Its catchy tune has a magical ...
Bob 'Bongo' Starkie, guitarist for the Australian rock band Skyhooks, has died at 73 after a year-long battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
Celebrity chef Rick Stein has recalled how his business empire started with a nightclub. He was talking to Scott Mills on BBC Radio 2.
In Stranger Things Season 5 Episode 2, called The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler, Karen Wheeler and her daughter, Holly, are at ...
Find out every song title featured in Duffer Brothers' hit Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things Season 5.
Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...
Who needs a song of the summer when we’ll always have Abba? Over 50 years after the Swedish pop group conquered Eurovision in 1974 with the white-flag-waving “Waterloo,” we couldn’t escape if we ...
The Swedish government announced on the 1st the completion of its “Swedish cultural canon”, a list of 100 items deemed the most “Swedish.” Historian Lars Trägårdh, commissioned by the government, ...
Two thirds of British adults regard the 1970s as amongst the most thrilling and creative decades in history. Now, a list of the top 70 things about the 70s has been unveiled. The study of 2,000 adults ...