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Abba: The Singles, The First Ten Years (Epic)

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 4 December 1982

HOW TO do everything, and how to do nearly everything right. In the rack of Christmas compilations everything else is a non-starter beside this one. This isn't the entire history of pop over the last ten years, but its documentation of the group who altered the course of pop more than anyone else – anyone– is flawless.

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