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Charles Spencer charts the success of the Abba musical from stage to screen Back in the Eighties, my sister and I took cruel pleasure in mocking my father about his beloved Abba LPs. "But Dad, they are so naff," we'd tell him. "I don't care what you say," he would reply through gritted teeth. "They're damn good tunes." The Mamma Mia! dream team: Catherine Johnson, Pyllida Lloyd and Judy Craymer And of course he was right and we were wrong, as subsequent events have proved. It was the release of the hugely successful CD collection Abba Gold in 1992, long after the Swedish group had broken up and those terrible costumes were mercifully receding in the memory that finally persuaded many scoffers that Abba had actually produced some of the most perfect pop hits in history. And then in 1999 came the musical, Mamma Mia!, set to the... [read full story]
