Elisabeth Vincentelli

"Thirty Three and a Third" is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. What binds the series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, broadcasters, scholars, and writers - are huge fans of the album they have chosen. Perhaps more than any other Greatest Hits compilation, Abba Gold has come to define a band's career on one disk. More than that, its release in 1992 heralded the critical rehabilitation of a group which had, since its demise a decade earlier, become little more than a memory of trashy costumes and cheesy tunes to many people. Here, Elisabeth Vincentelli charts the circumstances surrounding the birth of Abba Gold, looks at the impact it had on the music world, and tells the stories behind some of the greatest pop songs ever recorded.

El estilo pegadizo y la estética rompedora de ABBA le permitieron cruzar las fronteras de su Suecia natal, saltar a la fama en todo el mundo y convertirse en un referente de la música y la cultura pop. Los tesoros de ABBA relata la trayectoria musical de este grupo, analizando exhaustivamente cada album, las relaciones entre los miembros del cuarteto y la repercusion del exito de Mamma mia! en sus vidas y sus carreras. Una obra muy personal que incluye tambien entrevistas ineditas a Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson y a otros musicos y colaboradores del grupo, asi como veinte documentos extraibles, entre los que destacan reproducciones de pegatinas y cromos coleccionables, un pase de backstage, entradas, el programa de la gira mundial de 1979 y muchos otros tesoros. Ilustrado con mas de 150 fotografias a color, este libro constituye un homenaje unico a los reyes del pop.