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Carl Magnus Palm

Carl Magnus Palm

Carl Magnus Palm has devoted most of his music writing to the subject of ABBA. Although the Swedish band was and is one of the most successful bands on the planet, their history had previously not been seriously examined in book form. Palm has written the books ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions (1994), From ABBA To Mamma Mia! (1999, with Anders Hanser) and Bright Lights, Dark Shadows - The Real Story Of ABBA (2001). He writes the liner notes for most ABBA CDs and DVDs and has contributed pieces on the group for Record Collector. In his native Sweden, Palm has also published books about The Beatles and jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.

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Abba Down Unda

Book Excerpt by Carl Magnus Palm, Omnibus Books, 2001

An extract from Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of Abba, by Carl Magnus Palm, first published by Omnibus Press in 2001. (554pp, currently ...

ABBA: Arrival (Deluxe Edition)

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Music, October 2006

'DANCING QUEEN', 'Fernando', 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' and 'Money, Money, Money' – these four tracks all belong at the top of the list of ABBA's ...

ABBA: ABBA – The Album (Deluxe Edition)

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Music, October 2007

AS CAREER trajectories for top-level pop groups go, certain aspects of the ABBA story could almost serve as a textbook example. "The first tentative steps", ...

ABBA: A Matter Of Blood, Sweat And Tears: ABBA's Voulez-Vous (Deluxe Edition)

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Music, 31 May 2010

HINDSIGHT IS A wonderful thing. When studying the track list of compilation albums such as ABBA Gold, or perusing chart statistics, it is easy to ...

ABBA: Expanding the boundaries: The making of Super Trouper

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Music, May 2011

FOR A BAND whose music has sometimes been described as being born out of the long dark hours of the Scandinavian winter period, it may ...

ABBA: The Visitors (Deluxe Edition)

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Records, 23 April 2012

The final phase: The making of The Visitors ...

ABBA: Really Doing Something: The Making of the ABBA album

Sleeve notes by 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 ...

ABBA: Ring Ring (Deluxe Edition)

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Records, October 2013

The First Step: The Making Of The Ring Ring Album ...

ABBA: Reaching Out: The making of Waterloo

Sleeve notes by Carl Magnus Palm, Polar Records, April 2014

THE DATE IS April 6, 1974, and the scene is backstage at the Dome in Brighton, England, the spectacular building hosting the BBC's production of ...

Abba's Re-Arrival

Report by Carl Magnus Palm, MOJO, July 2018

Abba authority Carl Magnus Palm examines their shock reformation. Plus! Benny on the tape archive. ...

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