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Abba

ABBA

YEAR

2010

INDUCTED BY

Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb (The Bee Gees)

CATEGORY

Performers

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.

Agnetha Fältskog

Agnetha Fältskog

Benny Andersson

Benny Andersson

Björn Ulvaeus

Björn Ulvaeus

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By 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.

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