ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions was my very first ABBA book. The idea came to me while I was working with my friend Thomas Winberg on our Monica Zetterlund discography between 1990 and 1992. We decided that ABBA's recorded work would be our next project (for various reasons, we later agreed that it would be better if I wrote this book myself).

While we were searching for recording dates for Monica Zetterlund, we looked up the ABBA dates as well. I remember how confused and puzzled we were when we found session sheets with all sorts of odd titles. It was only later that I realised that most of them were in fact working titles for released songs, and not dozens of unreleased titles.

Meanwhile, I started collecting ABBA-related newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television interviews and so on. The Monica Zetterlund discography was completed in the summer of 1992, and that's when I turned my attention to ABBA. The motivation behind the project was that although the group were lauded as innovative recording artists and composers - even before the great revival that was yet to come - very little of what had been written about them dealt with the creative aspects of their work.

During the course of 1992 I started tentative research, and the bulk of the book was written in 1993. All four ABBA members, as well as their engineer Michael Tretow and many of their musicians, answered questions for the book. Björn and Benny wrote the foreword. ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions was published in the autumn of 1994 by the UK publisher Century 22.

If you want to know more about the creation of the book, an extensive essay is available under "More info".

ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions is currently out of print, and I don't have any copies left. Used copies are often available through Amazon (see links to the right), so that might be an alternative if you want to buy the book. However, you may find their prices prohibitively expensive.

I haven't ruled out the possibility of a reprint of ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions at some point in the future. However, there are no firm plans at the moment.