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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: ABBA, Slavko Avsenik, Lys Assia, Sandie Shaw, Carola Haggkvist, Hardy Rodenstock, Roger Whittaker, Zarah Leander, Hans Albers, Lena Philipsson, Alcazar, Kikki Danielsson, Lale Andersen, Peter Alexander, Goldene Stimmgabel, Caterina Valente, Salvatore Adamo, Jill Johnson, Claudia Jung, Andrea Jurgens, Alexandra, Lena Valaitis, Tommy Korberg, Rex Gildo, Jan Smit, Ireen Sheer, Andrea Berg, Shirley Clamp, Kristina Bach, Paul Curtis, Matthias Reim, Towa Carson, Gitte Haenning, Jurgen Marcus, Cornelia Froboess, Sanna Nielsen, Lotta Engberg, Elfi Graf, Bruno Balz, Drafi Deutscher, Nino de Angelo, Ilse Werner, Margot Eskens, Brigitte Ahrens, Rico Seith, Heino, Bernd Spier, Semino Rossi, Sonja Alden, Roland Kaiser, Stefan Waggershausen, Laura Lynn, Inka Bause. Excerpt: ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 which consisted of Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of pop music, topping the charts worldwide from 1972 to 1982. ABBA sold over 375 million records worldwide, which made them the fourth best-selling popular music artists in the history of recorded music. They still sell between two to three million albums a year. ABBA was the first pop group to come from a non-English-speaking country that enjoyed consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the UK, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin American markets (Particularly Mexico and Argentina), and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish. During the band's active years, Faltskog and Ulvaeus were a married couple, as were Lyngstad and Andersson-although both couples later divorced. At the height of their popularity, both ..
