After So long , this is the second picture disc released this year to be taken from the album  Abba , originally released 50 years ago. It...

Abba released four new picture disc 7" singles of the songs associated with their self-titled album from 1975.  Abba  was their third a...

Surprisingly, I didn't already have 'Bang-a-boomerang' on a 7" single, and even more surprisingly, 'S.O.S.' is on t...

What can I say about Abba's 'Waterloo' that hasn't been said already about a thousand times? Not much, I fear, and so I only...

Collecting Abba singles has gone out of hand a bit. I used to want to have all the tracks, but now I am also drawn to strange versions from ...

Although I bought a picture disc of the tracks on this single just last year , this American version from 1980 was just too interesting to r...

Although I own quite a lot of Abba singles now, this one represents the first time that the song 'Hasta mañana' appears on a single....

The good thing about a song called 'Happy new year' is that you can re-release it every year, even if the lyrics are strictly bound ...

The last Abba album Voyage came out a few years ago, and from that album some singles were taken. They were all issued on one track cd-sing...

Having hunted Abba singles throughout this year, I thought I'd seen most of them by now, but then I found myself bumping into this rarit...

The Swedish supergroup Abba is back on this blog, with a Japanese single no less. This is an interesting one, because it couples 'S.O.S...

Like I wrote recently , the French do things differently, and that applies to this release of Abba's 'Fernando' as well. The Dut...

It's no surprise that the Old Gold series would end up releasing an Abba single. And this one presents two excellent songs: 'Knowing...

The French have a way of doing things differently, and in the record business, that's no exception. Various Abba singles were released w...

In 1982 Abba released their 'last' single, 'Under attack'. In the UK the single was also released as a picture disc - and a ...

After the recent influx of Abba picture discs in my collection, I suddenly realized that the band also released a few picture discs back in ...

Although war crept in to some Abba tracks from time to time (most notably 'Waterloo' and 'Fernando'), the feeling of paranoi...

After a short break, Abba returned to the studio in the spring of 1982. The first results were deemed disappointing: the tracks 'Just li...

'Head over heels' was released in March 1982 as the second single from the album The Visitors .  Agnetha Fältskog sang the lead voca...

At the start of the 1980s, Abba was slowly falling apart. After the divorce of Björn and Agnetha (which some felt was documented in 'The...