Great Britain has produced more popular music stars than any other country. Over the last 30 years rock and pop music have been very popular in Britain. The Beatles, with their style of singing, eloquent and exciting, is still one of the most popular groups. British groups often set new trends in music. New styles, groups and singers continue to appear. Some of the more recent pop groups are Dire Straits, Eurhythmics and Spice Girls. Many of the new bands have been able to use the changes in technology to develop their music. Computerized drum machines, synthesizers and other electronic instruments are now just as popular as the piano and electric guitars.
My favourite group is Abba. It was formed in 1973 in Sweden. Abba's cheerful tunes made them international pop stars and one of the most successful groups of the seventies. Their most famous songs ("Waterloo", "Money, Money, Money", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", etc.) often topped European charts. Though the group doesn't exist any more, it is still popular with people of all ages. I can't but admire their style of singing. I find it fascinating and overwhelming. When I have free time I listen to their records.
ABBA, Swedish Europop group that was among the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music. In the 1970s it dominated the European charts with its catchy pop songs. Members included songwriter and keyboard player Benny Andersson (b. Dec. 16, 1946, Stockholm, Swed.), songwriter and guitarist Björn Ulvaeus (b. April 25, 1945, Gothenburg, Swed.), and vocalists Agnetha Fältskog (b. April 5, 1950, Jönköping, Swed.) and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (b. Nov. 15, 1945, Narvik, Nor.).
The group began to take shape in 1969, when Andersson and Ulvaeus, who had previously collaborated on a number of folk and pop projects, met Lyngstad and Fältskog.
After the demise of ABBA, Fältskog and Lyngstad embarked on moderately successful solo careers, and Ulvaeus and Andersson collaborated with lyricist Tim Rice to create Chess (1984), a concept album and stage musical that produced the surprise radio hit “"One Night in Bangkok."” Although the band frequently quashed rumours of a possible reunion over the following years, ABBA’s music never truly left the popular consciousness. Other groups performed ABBA songs with varying degrees of faithfulness, and British dance pop band Erasure devoted an entire EP (appropriately titled ABBA-esque [1992]) to ABBA covers. The music of ABBA was also a fixture on the big screen, playing a central role in both the plots and sound tracks of such films as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Muriel’s Wedding (1994). Ulvaeus and Andersson merged their shared love of musical theatre with the ABBA back catalog to produce Mamma Mia!, a romantic comedy that debuted on London’s West End in 1999 and was subsequently seen by millions of people worldwide. A film version of the play, starring Meryl Streep, was one of the top global box office draws of 2008. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
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