From The Archive: Interview with Abba 1977

In which I put Bjorn Ulvaeus on trial for crimes against the 'new wave'.

I wrote this when I was 21 years old and caught up in the flush of punk/new wave. Abba were not the loveable monkeys they are seen as now, but an offense against all that was new in music. So I decided to ‘prosecute’ Bjorn. And found him, predictably, guilty.

Hilariously, the thing I seem to be most outraged about is not the music Abba create - which I …