Interviewer: Sarah Gosling
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo (the song, not the battle) – a seminal moment in pop history which saw Swedish sensation ABBA burst on to the international music scene. How is it that half a century later this seventies Eurovision act is bigger than ever – reaching listeners of all ages and spinning off into musicals, museums and holograms? In My My! Abba Through the Ages, Giles Smith, writer and music fan, sets out to find out why. Giles will takes us on a journey of discovery about what makes Abba more popular than ever.
Giles Smith is the author of the pop memoir Lost in Music. His writing has appeared in numerous British publications and in The New Yorker. He has published two collections of journalism and, in the last ten years, he has been the ghost-writer for eight Sunday Times bestselling autobiographies.
A truly inspiring book.– Nigella Lawson
