Abba

Year:
2010
Inducted by:
Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb (The Bee Gees)
Category:
Performers

Agnetha Fältskog
Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Introduction

ABBA made waves in the pop culture of the seventies that still resonate today.

Producing one infectious hit after another, ABBA inspired a movie, a musical, and a mania. Thirty years later, their popularity is still going strong.

Members of the Bee Gees Induct ABBA

Barry & Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees Induct ABBA at the 2010 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Members of the Bee Gees Induct ABBA

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ABBA Acceptance Speeches
"The Winner Takes It All"

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Hall of Fame Essay

2010

Jim Farber

Yes, the way ABBA dressed could qualify them for a lifetime achievement award on What Not to Wear, the way they piled their harmonies and instruments on top of each other could make Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound seem like a modest lark, and the joy their songs exuded suggested a level of pleasure that bordered on the lunatic.

Yet ABBA’s songs also hold a sophistication, beauty, and rarity that accounts for more of their undying and still broadening success than people commonly acknowledge.