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From the NS archive: Four-wheel drive 27 January 1978: Abba, carefree joy and the erosion of local culture. By Mark Kidel After winning the Eurovision Song Contest with “Waterloo” in 1974 – the first Swedish contestants to do so – Abba became famous almost overnight. But it wasn’t until a few years later that they became true superstars. By the time they released “The Album” in December 1977, Abba were fresh off a tour of Europe and Australia, with multiple number-one hits and a movie on the way. They were universally accessible: their Eurovision entry was unique because they ...

Region: All MSRP: $21.99 The Production: 3.5/5 If you’re looking for biographical accuracy, don’t look to Hollywood of the Golden Age especially if the subject is connected to the arts; its primary focus then was entertainment, not factual authenticity. Richard Thorpe’s The Great Caruso is a perfect example: a popular, celebrated artist whose real life story was fraught with legitimate drama but whose movie biography was reduced to a rags-to-riches-to-heartbreak trope: a story we’ve seen multiple times in the movies only this time accentuated with glorious operatic arias ...