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This was the first hits package prepared specifically for the CD format by the Swedish supergroup, and it's release marked the first time ABBA's music was made widely available again. It is still the simplest and most straightforward collection of the group's material that it is possible to buy.
Even though Polygram dedicated reasonable amounts of time and money to ABBA’s revitalization when ABBA Gold was first released, they still underestimated the amount of latent interest in the band’s music by the early ’90s, in part because that enthusiasm was rooted in marginalized communities.
For gay men around the world, ABBA’s blend of naïve camp, indelible melodies, and genuinely wrenching melodrama proved captivating. They wrote anthems for dancing queens and men after midnight, inadvertently adopting language that would become essential to gay life.