Abba Greatest Hits was actually their breakthrough LP in the UK. It was the biggest selling album of 1976 despite the fact that, Waterloo and the recent late-1975 smash Mamma Mia excepted, most of the tracks were either completely unknown, obscure or forgotten. 1976 UK number one Fernando was added to the 1976 reissue to get even more sold.
In a slightly different way, the Beatles Red and Blue albums were the ‘way in’ to the group for Gen X folk who grew up to form Britpop bands and get ‘1’ for Xmas from their kids, making the album the biggest selling LP of the 2000s. This is the only context in which you can correctly say the sentence ‘Good job, Allen Klein.’
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Abba Greatest Hits was actually their breakthrough LP in the UK. It was the biggest selling album of 1976 despite the fact that, Waterloo and the recent late-1975 smash Mamma Mia excepted, most of the tracks were either completely unknown, obscure or forgotten. 1976 UK number one Fernando was added to the 1976 reissue to get even more sold.
In a slightly different way, the Beatles Red and Blue albums were the ‘way in’ to the group for Gen X folk who grew up to form Britpop bands and get ‘1’ for Xmas from their kids, making the album the biggest selling LP of the 2000s. This is the only context in which you can correctly say the sentence ‘Good job, Allen Klein.’