ABBA Through the Ages
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Köp båda 2 för 442 kr'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time be...
[Giles Smith] is a perfect guide to ABBAs ups and down on pops stock market [and] an astute musicologist, able to take apart these songs without wrecking their delicate internal workings . . . For such a droll book, then, My My! comes with an existential kick, concerned with the effects of times passing on art, the way it can become distorted through hearsay and assumption, like a fuzzy tenth-generation mix tape . . . Its not a stretch to say that, at its core, My My! is a book about time, death and the possibility of immortality . . . As Smiths loving testament to the band so clearly shows, in 2024 theres nothing to hide. ABBA, their avatars facing down death itself from their purpose-built arena, have won the war * Sunday Times *
Giles Smith is the author of the pop memoir Lost in Music, an updated version of which will be published by Penguin in the summer of 2023. His writing has appeared in numerous British publications and in The New Yorker. He has published two collections of journalism and a spoof memoir of the comic-strip footballer Roy of the Rovers, and, in the last ten years, he has been the ghost-writer for eight Sunday Times bestselling autobiographies.