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...could talk about the deceptive simplicity of Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson's melodies. How their exchange-student lyrics imbued the songs with an innocence that is one of pop's purest pleasures. How the really powerful cultural forces are those that make you forget your dignity. (Yes, Meryl, we mean you.) We could observe that Abba's music is best enjoyed by those who know that events are not entirely in their control. Hence America, the unassailable superpower, had no use for it until recently...
...last question is the easiest to answer. Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the boy half of Abba, may have been writing for the Top 40, but their songs explored a gamut of dramatic situations, from the vagaries of celebrity (Super Trouper, Does Your Mother Know) to the wistfulness a woman feels as her daughter grows up (Slipping Through My Fingers). And since Abba's vocalists were women (Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog), the guys composed enough hits over the group's nine-year run to accommodate all the female characters in Mamma...
...Every 20 years or so, I get missionary about a Broadway show - to be exact, about the music I love in a certain Broadway show. In the 80s the show was Chess, with book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, late of the Swedish pop group ABBA. For me, Chess was by far the finest score of the decade, rich and varied and powerful, and thrillingly melodic. It put tunes in my head that still sit up and sing there. In TIME, I wrote about Chess when it was still an album...
CHESS. In this season’s Mainstage rock musical, two master chess players and a woman caught between them face off in their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of a chess game. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while...
...agents will be singing and chess players will be dancing when Chess begins its two week run on the Loeb Mainstage tonight. This rock musical, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the Swedish rock group ABBA, with lyrics by Tim Rice, tells the story of American and Russian chess players competing in a world champion chess match at the height of the Cold...