ABBA star Frida Lyngstad turns 80 with a life full of triumph, heartbreak, love, and music that has inspired generations.

“I am turning 80 this year,” declared Anni-Frid Lyngstad with a real sense of pride to the crowds attending the latest performance of ABBA Voyage earlier this year. She made a surprise appearance to ...

The ‘catalogue’, of course, is ABBA’s huge library of classic songs, and the producers feel that it’s this, along with the knowledge that Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida were closely involved, that ...

The Gist: “It’s a damp squib – it’s going to end. Tacky, plastic.” Leave it to the snippy British music press of the early 1970s to put a damper on ABBA’s success, just as they’d found it. Despite the ...