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...have lately become as ubiquitous on the legit stage as the endlessly recycled standards of Gershwin, Porter and Kern. In addition to Nyro and Joplin, Jim Morrison and his life and music were the subject of another recent off-Broadway show. The '70s hits of the Swedish rock band Abba make up the score for Mamma Mia!--a hit in London that's due on Broadway this fall. A new Beatles musical, All You Need Is Love, is about to open in London, and a show with music by the '70s band Queen is in the works. Fittingly, New York...
...increase the box office too. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, of Abba, had a Broadway failure despite their great score for the rock musical Chess in the mid-'80s. But Mamma Mia!--essentially a greatest-hits album adorning a fluffy story about a girl searching for her real dad--has been breaking attendance records in London, Toronto and Los Angeles. Which means that more than just Abba fans are singing along with Dancing Queen...
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...original authorized version of this column, see www.somanintheknow.com...because certain subjects are too risqué for newsprint. Bigger, longer, uncut…Bought the new A-Teens CD, Teen Spirit. A*Teens, remember, were those boobs who released a whole album of Abba covers. Well, the new record has some wonderfully catchy tunes. But these lyrics! Here are some sample lines: “My grades go down from A’s to B’s. / I’m way behind in history / My head is full of fantasies / Of you and me together...
...sucker for the melancholy. I guess that's one of the things, coming from this place. If you listen to ABBA and Ace of Base, it's always sort of melancholy. I love the stuff Sting does, because he also has that feeling in his music. I actually think it's easier to write a beautiful melody in minor than in major. A happy song is great, but I think the songs you remember are when you're sad. It's not that I'm a sad person. Not at all. That's just my taste in music. There...