I Let The Music Speak CD

Although the breakup of ABBA in the early '80s did not, in fact, mean the dissolution of the songwriting team of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus that had come up with all of the group's songs and made up half of its personnel, people tend to think of it that way, an impression only reinforced by the worldwide success of the stage musical Mamma Mia! that employs ABBA songs, since Andersson and Ulvaeus insisted as a condition of their involvement that the songs by performed in their ABBA arrangements. There have been relatively few attempts to record the songs differently -- Erasure's 1992 EP Abba-esque was one, but, more typically, the A*Teens tried to copy the original arrangements on their album The ABBA Generation in 2000. And there have been no attempts to consider Andersson and Ulvaeus as songwriters ...