Did people actually dislike ABBA in the 70s? The Brian Eno quote I posted yesterday paints a familiar picture - nobody could say they liked them, then gradually people could. But how were they really received in the music press at the time?
I am still writing about ABBA - I did some actual RESEARCH (i.e. looked at rocksbackpages) for this post. CAUTION contains old school UK rock journalism.
koganbot reblogged this from tomewing and added:
Tom, here are some more. Simon Frith, from “Letter From Britain, Goodby To All That,” Creem, January 1977:
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The answer is, yes, rock critics were always that way.
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Rendered speechless at first by the strange claim that Paul McCartney was deeper than ABBA.
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Some ideas of ABBA forty years ago: NME Book of Rock (1976 edn, key para, author unknown): “[ABBA] first came to...
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am still writing...I did some actual RESEARCH (i.e. looked at rocksbackpages) for this...
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fitted neatly into my emerging pop consciousness. At...‘77) there was
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