It’s hard to remember a time when ABBA weren’t the world-conquering titans that they are today.
With 350m record sales to their name, their songs have soundtracked weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and even funerals for as long as I can remember – but they haven’t always been regarded as classic pop heroes. Though they’ve since enjoyed something of a critical renaissance, fuelled by a series of playful covers by Erasure in the Nineties, and the Mamma Mia! films a decade later, it hasn’t always been this way. Back in the day, some viewed the Swedish four-piece as uber-cheesy and desperately uncool.
