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 ...

It's been the crucible of music icons from ABBA to Celine Dion, a flashy symbol of European integration, the charged focal ...

Thirty-seven countries are participating in the contest, whose motto is “united by music.” Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans have gathered in Malmo, Sweden, ...

In 1974, a little-known Swedish quartet set out to conquer the Eurovision Song Contest being held in Brighton in the United Kingdom. Armed with several pairs of platform boots and a conductor dressed ...

The words “Eurovision Song Contest” probably stir some dim images, at best, for the average American. Imagine one overlong, annual episode of American Idol, featuring…mostly professional singers from ...

Picture: ‘It’s pretty special.’ Delta has opened up about Eclipse, the song she will perform. Picture: Fittingly, ‘Eclipse’ ...

The song was released as the second single from ABBA's second studio album, Waterloo, following the success of the title track at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. It was the last official recording ...

ABBA: Against The Odds (Netflix) travels back 50-plus years to 1974, when Sweden first gave ABBA to the world. A band of two couples, Agnetha Fȁltskog and Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad ...