Import only compilation from one of the consistently best selling pop groups of all-time features all new artwork with a full color booklet including liner notes from leading ABBA expert Carl Magnus Palm, author of Bright Lights, Dark Shadows - The Real Story of ABBA. Features the hits 'The Winner Takes It All', 'Mamma Mia', 'Waterloo' and the spanish version of 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (a Man After Midnight)', Swedish version of 'Honey, Honey', French version of 'Waterloo' and the German version of 'Ring, Ring'. Universal.

24 bit digital remaster with new liner notes, complete lyrics and bonus tracks: 'Merry Go Round', 'Santa Rosa' and 'Ring Ring (Swedish Version)'.

Chess is a musical that sounds like it shouldn't work but instead succeeds surprisingly well. This is the original concept album that was recorded before the musical was staged in London. Chess is the story of a love triangle told against the backdrop of an international chess tournament during the height of the cold war. The composers are Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (the Bs in ABBA) and the lyrics are by Tim Rice, who supplied the words for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, as well as Disney's Aladdin (with Howard Ashman), The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast. The six-member cast does a beautiful job with the songs, which are a combination of ballads, rock, and operatic choruses. Murray Head's version of "One Night in Bangkok" became a surprise hit in the mid-'80s and it still turns up on the turntables in dance clubs around the world. --Michael Simmons