Honey, Honey, you're a love machine - Sweden's Abba Museum
The true Abba cosmos is revealed in an unlikely museum dedicated to the band.
A basement in Stockholm. A tomato-red plastic telephone mounted on a pedestal. Behind it, a wall-size photograph depicting two women and two men. Young, cheerful, pristine – and known throughout the world as the blonde one, the brunette, the one with the beard and the one without the beard.
Bolted above this, an official-looking sign with a message in urgent upper-case italics, hinting that in the advent of some distinctly Scandinavian catastrophe – the coming of Ragnarök, the fall of the great tree of Yggdrasil – help would be at hand. "Om telefonen ringer, svara. Det är Abba som ringer!"
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