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Another fine addition to the canon of music biographies... Palm's biography is extremely thorough and dipped deeply in a pond of melancholy. -- The Times A melancholy insight into the gulf between dreams and reality. -- Stuff How did Abba do it? And why, 20 years after they split, are they still so popular? Palm's book achieves the difficult feat of capturing the multiple layers of Abba... with a deftness unusual in a rock biography. -- The Sunday Times It ain't exactly Keith Richards's LIFE, full of hair-raising stories of rock-and-roll, but, as its title implies, this book exposes the humanity behind the otherworldly presence that is the Swedish band Abba. In the 1970s they were pioneers of dance pop and world music while maintaining a sleek, detached edge that, at times, made them seem cold and calculating. The text is delivered deftly by Adrian Mulraney, whose familiarity with stage performance in Australian theater makes him a natural for the high drama of Abba's up-and-down saga. His voice resonates with a condescending tone that decries the ego game of pop success while revealing the intimate details of the musicians' personal lives. -- AudioFile Magazine
