Inoculation against Pessimism and Ennui

Most pop music is as transitory as a bikini wax. This does not apply for Abba, who are part of the world's cultural DNA. What my friend Frida told me about their big comeback.

So, what are your life highlights? Climbing Everest? Kayaking the Amazon? Mine was introducing Pop Queen, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, to pop princess Kylie Minogue at a luncheon at my London home.  Oh, to be in the presence of such musical royalty!…. All I could do was walk, backwards in front of them, bowing and scraping «like some lowly palace flunky.»

Inoculation against Pessimism and Ennui

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