Listen to “Ring Ring,” “Waterloo,” and “Honey, Honey” all in a row and it’s easy to tell these songs were all written by the same people. ABBA could get a bit formulaic and they ...

with their 1973 hit “Ring Ring.” Still, in Sweden, both the song and album of the same name were the biggest hits of that year. A year later, renamed Abba — an acronym of their first names ...