We all know - and love - ABBA. Everyone has a copy of ABBA Gold (the second most popular album of all time in the UK.) Publishers and booksellers have always wondered: how can we get that ABBA feeling into a book? Well here's how: ABBA - The Treasures is co-written by a colleague and friend of the band using contemporary interviews, and the world's acknowledged ABBA expert; it features never-before-seen photographs from private collections, and contains removable facsimiles of personal items belonging to Anni-Frid, Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha. If you wanted ABBA in a book, you've got it. Special items include: * ABBA's hand-written diary, including listings for Bjorn and Agnetha's wedding amid rehearsals and concerts! * Hand-annotated sheet music for 'I Have A Dream' * Bjorn's North American tour 1979 book * Technical and backstage rider for Australian tour * Hand-written set list * Hand-written lyrics to 'Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight!)' * 1979 US tour pass * Hand-drawn stage plan from 1980 Japan tour.

Bright Lights Dark Shadows is the definitive biography of Abba, the world's greatest pop band whose hit musical Mamma Mia! has become the most successful stage show and UK film of all time. This new edition of the best-selling Abba book has been substantially updated and revised to include details Mamma Mia's extraordinary success and the ongoing lives of Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Foltskog, their music and their personal lives. It has also been substantially revised throughout.

Revealed for the first time ? the people who were Abba, their individual backgrounds, their musical influences and their personal demons. By the time Abba split up, no one was in any doubt that behind the glitter there was a dark side, and behind the smiling group were four troubled individuals. But even as a whole new generation of fans discovers Abba's great music, Anni-Frid, Agnetha, Benny and Bjorn have continued to remain rather shadowy, secretive figures. Their marriages, personal break-ups and superficial biographical details are well known... but who exactly were Abba? The author answers these and many more questions about the hit group that no one took seriously... until everyone did. Bright Lights, Dark Shadows is an instant classic- a truly great account of the rise and fall of a legendary group and a multiple biography of rare insight. Achieves the difficult feat of capturing the multiple layers of Abba... with a deftness unusual in a rock biography.? ? Sunday Times