The making of a box set Part
6 (of 8): THE BOX SET HELPS AGNETHA AND FRIDA REDISCOVER ABBA Eventually,
a final track listing was agreed upon by all concerned. Agnetha and Frida were
sent tapes to okay everything, and at least for Frida this proved to have a positive
side-effect, as she got in touch with the ABBA legacy again. In the 1999 documentary
The Winner Takes It All - The ABBA Story, she recalled: "There was a long
period of time when I didn’t listen to ABBA or the music that we once had
recorded. And then I got some cassettes sent to me where Michael Tretow, and Benny
and Björn, had put together the music ... I remember playing those cassettes
over and over again, and actually for the first time in so many years listening
to Agnetha’s voice, my voice, the arrangement, the production and so forth.
And that was a very happy moment."
Perhaps the chance to get this
convenient overview of ABBA’s music was also what triggered Agnetha’s
reawakened interest in their music. "During a ten year period I neither played,
sang nor listened to music," she reflected in her official biography, As
I Am, published in 1996. "I didn’t even bother to get a decent stereo
system. ... Although I did occasionally listen when good new stuff came along,
it was as if I’d had too much of everything. ... Now, again, I feel that
I can begin to enjoy both ABBA and some of my own things as well as other artists.
I suddenly feel a desire to listen again. ... At the same time as interest in
ABBA was rekindled around the world, I, too, began to get something out of the
music again."
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This is probably what the cassette tapes that Agnetha and Frida received looked like.
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