YEAR
2010
INDUCTED BY
Barry Gibb & Robin Gibb (The Bee Gees)
CATEGORY
Performers
ABBA made waves in the pop culture of the seventies that still resonate today.
Producing one infectious hit after another, ABBA inspired a movie, a musical, and a mania. Thirty years later, their popularity is still going strong.
Agnetha Fältskog
Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Jim Farber
Yes, the way ABBA dressed could qualify them for a lifetime achievement award on What Not to Wear, the way they piled their harmonies and instruments on top of each other could make Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound seem like a modest lark, and the joy their songs exuded suggested a level of pleasure that bordered on the lunatic.
Yet ABBA’s songs also hold a sophistication, beauty, and rarity that accounts for more of their undying and still broadening success than people commonly acknowledge.
