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• #Abba there was something in the air that night full#

People who know that the group, since its debut in 1973, has sold 350 million albums worldwide. People who know the names of every ABBA album ever recorded, and can recite them chronologically by release date. In fact, it's a bunch of people like Dave and Tracey, people who can tell you that 3,300 ABBA recordings are sold every day all over the world.

#Abba there was something in the air that night full#

It's a phrase that brings to mind a village full of people in pastel neckerchiefs, tunics with gravity-defying collars, and huge, sequin-studded platform wedgies. "The only thing that's different in the ABBA community today is that people are more willing to admit they like ABBA now." "There's something about their music that, once you hear it, you have to like it," Tracey says. The Macleans, who have a poodle named Chiquitita, swear that everyone, whether they'll admit it or not, at least sort of likes ABBA. The couple proudly proclaim themselves "ABBA warriors" who've not only hosted their own ABBA Fest (at which Tracey took second prize in the talent competition for her impersonation of ABBA babe Agnetha Faltskog) but have invented ABBA Bingo, a parlor game that involves listening to the band's third album and marking off aural cues on a preprinted card. And today there is Mamma Mia!, the Broadway smash that strings together 22 old ABBA tunes to tell a story of unwed motherhood on a fictional Greek island.ĭave Maclean and his wife Tracey are traveling to Phoenix this week from their home in Seattle to see Mamma Mia!, which plays at Gammage Auditorium through Sunday, for the seventh time. There was Chess: The Musical, written by ABBA founders Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson in 1984, and the ABBA-centric soundtracks to Muriel's Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, both in 1994. Although the pop quartet broke up in 1983, its persuasive charms have lived on in multiplatinum hits packages (both ABBA Gold and More ABBA Gold have sold nonstop since their release in the 1990s) in various tribute bands such as Bjorn Again and ABBAlanche and in musical homages like Erasure's ABBAesque. Because no matter how you feel about this über-hip hit machine, ABBA has never really gone away. It's this deep-rooted, unwavering ABBA-ness that has kept the '70s Swedish supergroup alive long past its welcome.

Try though we might, we can't shake the memory of their catchy pop hooks can't deny their fluffy bangs or forget their giant silver shoes. Maybe you hear the chugging intro to "Waterloo." Or the a cappella choral bridge from "Super Trouper." Probably it's the piano roll from "Dancing Queen." Like it or not, ABBA resides in all of us, like a pancreas or a low-level staph infection. The moment you hear the name ABBA, or see it in print, a jangly bit of one of the band's hit songs begins playing in your head.