Abba's Abba GoldElisabeth VincentelliLabel: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Description: 33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive passionate creative and informed the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. (A task which can be as Elvis Costello famously observed as tricky as dancing about architecture.) What binds this series together and what brings it to life is that all of the authors - musicians scholars and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have chosen.
