Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Knowing me, knowing the genius of Abba 

The simple lyrical elegance, the blend of the voices and the incredible harmonies, the Beatles-level, godlike melodies... 
Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Knowing me, knowing the genius of Abba 

Abba in 1976: Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstadand, Bjorn Ulvaeus.  

Wexford 1974, a school trip to the Wexford Slobs. It is, without question, the highlight of my young life. My class are all agreed, there are Special Protection Areas and there are Special Protection areas, but this is the SPA other SPAs call 'The Boss'.

Not for the boys of James’s Street CBS anything as common as a gap year building houses in Haiti, or a family swap with a child from Peru. No, give us the Wexford Slobs. Start as you mean to continue. Not so much to manage expectations as to bury them under 2,500 acres of mud flats.

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