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ABOUT THE BOOK

Back in 2001, when my English-language ABBA biography, Bright Lights Dark Shadows, was published, there was hope that it would be published in several different languages. For various reasons, except for German and Russian, this never happened. I found it especially annoying that we couldn't get the book published in Sweden - after all, its ABBA's home-country as well as my own. That thought simply wouldn't leave me alone.

Therefore, I'm very happy to announce the publication of my brand new ABBA biography, entitled ABBA - The Story: Berättelsen om supergruppen (The Story About The Super Group). This new book tells the story of ABBA, but this time in Swedish. I have gone back to the drawing board, as it were, and written a completely new biography, so that ABBA-interested readers in Sweden can finally read the fascinating story of ABBA.

Naturally, the events of the 21st Century are covered in some detail in this new book, which of course was not the case with, for example, Bright Lights Dark Shadows. Furthermore, new information that has come to light about the ABBA years has informed the Swedish book.

There are around 60 colour and black & white pictures in the book, covering the pre-ABBA days up until the present.

Popular ABBA fan site Raffem.com has reviewed ABBA - The Story. They feel that although the book is Swedish-language it is a must-have for fans all over the world, because of a number of pictures that they describe as "very rare and previously unseen by die-hard ABBA fans." The Raffem.com review concludes: "One of the very rare pictures in the book is the picture from the filming of the video 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' in the studio in 1976 - we said 'wow'. So now you know why you will buy this book..."

Interested in buying a SIGNED COPY? Ordering details for signed copies of ABBA - The Story are now available. Please click "Buy a signed copy" or "Köp ett signerat exemplar" in the "Order from" menu to the right.


FOREIGN VERSIONS

This book will NOT be published in an English-language version. For the foreseeable future, Bright Lights Dark Shadows will remain my only English-language ABBA biography. However, ABBA - The Story is published in the following countries:


Norway

Published in early October 2008. The Norwegian title is ABBA – Verdens største popeventyr (The World's Biggest Pop Adventure) (Cappelen Damm; ISBN: 8202288851). Click here to see the front cover of the book.


Denmark

Published November 7. The Danish edition is a coffee table book, featuring circa 160 pictures, i.e. about 100 more than the Swedish edition. I have not been involved in the additional picture selection, nor have I written the picture captions. The title of the Danish edition is ABBA - Historien om supergruppen (The Story About The Super Group) (Politiken; ISBN: 978-87-56-78885-4). Click here to see the cover of the book.


Finland

The Finnish edition is published in mid-April 2009 (after the Easter holidays) and is simply entitled ABBA (Like; ISBN: 978-952-01-0260-9). Click here to see the cover of the book.