ABBA Live [SEP] record label
ABBA Live
ABBA Live is an album of live recordings by Swedish pop group ABBA, released by Polar Music in 1986.
A live album was something that many ABBA fans had demanded for several years. ABBA themselves had toyed with the idea on a couple of occasions, but always decided against it. Finally, four years after the members went their separate ways, a live collection was released after all. The resultant album, "ABBA Live", contained recordings from 1977, 1979 and 1981. The tracks were
their cover of "SOS" by ABBA for the SST Records compilation "The Melting Plot". By 1989, they were one of LA's top live acts, and stories about the band appeared in the "Los Angeles Times" and in the hardcore magazine "Flipside".
In 1989, the band began negotiations with the German record label LSD Records, which had recently signed the LA retro-alternative bands Thee Fourgiven and the Miracle Workers, to go to Berlin and record an album. Negotiations fell through,