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Really Doing Something: The Making of the ABBA album

Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Music, November 2012

WHAT WOULD you do if you were a Swedish band who had just won the Eurovision Song Contest, a victory that resulted in the first truly global hit single to emanate from your country – in itself an achievement that you and your manager had been working towards for several years? After the promotional duties in the aftermath of this success had been taken care of, you would probably clear all decks, cancel all prior engagements and, fired-up by the excitement generated by your new-found international fame, immediately start working on follow-up songs in the hope of producing more hits that could capture the world's imagination.

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