And still I'm finding more masterpieces

[fpb]

I have been a fan of Abba since Waterloo, OK? I've written a songfic on their EAGLE, I've used their texts to review other people's work, I quote their lyrics without even noticing. And still I am discovering masterpieces - and I mean MASTERPIECES - that I knew nothing of, a quarter-century after they parted ways.

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This is quite simply one of the

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[un_crayon_rouge]

I just listened to this for the first time a couple of days ago, and I had the same reaction: "Wow, I love ABBA and I know they are good, but WHAT IS THIS?"

[fpb]

I have since found out that this was the very last song they ever released, which makes it even sadder - just think of the potential for further growth.

[blue_sky_day]

They retired from the world stage, for the most part, but not from the music industry. They kept working, separately, but for the most part stayed in Sweden. If you're not familiar with any of their later solo work, you should be.

[fpb]

Thanks for the information. As a matter of fact, I knew very well, at least, the musical Chess and some of Agnetha's solo songs. But in spite of their individual talent, neither Ani nor Agnetha had a really successful career after the group broke up; and I simply don't think that B&B produced as many songs, and as brilliant, as they did during their joint careers.

With ABBA as with the Beatles, the problem was with four vastly talented friends (with sentimental complications in both cases) who could not, in the long run, live together, but who were really necessary to each other to perform at their best. None of them were quite as good on their own as they had been together, in my view.