ABBA

Thank You For The Music: How ABBA became one of the most iconic pop bands the world has ever known

It would have been so easy for ABBA to have been a one-hit wonder. When the Swedish group took the stage during the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest to perform Waterloo – credited in previews as 'The Abba', and conducted by a man dressed as Napoleon – the superstars-to-be looked nervous.

Two minutes and 40 seconds later, the quartet had written themselves into music history. The UK gave...