LIFE: ABBA

ABBA aimed high. It wanted to perfect pop music, and in its quest, ended up perfecting pop by reinventing it. The Swedish sensation made pop with feeling and pop full of feelings, brimming with every emotion. The group mapped that wide emotional range on meticulously assembled songs such as “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia,” “SOS” and “Take A Chance on Me.” But the blueprint for its success took a toll. The work played out against years of love and pain, fan frenzy and flops. LIFE: ABBA tells the story of a band climbing towering peaks and tumbling down hills over and over again–across two marriages and four intertwined careers–and squeezing that glory and chaos into a pop music revolution that endures.