As I Am: Abba Before & Beyond | 
| Authors: Agnetha Faltskog, Brita Ahman
Publisher: Virgin Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 1034997
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 158
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 10.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1852276541
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922
EAN: 9781852276546
ASIN: 1852276541
Publication Date: October 1997
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Product Description
The biography of Agnetha Faltskog focusing on the ABBA years. The book covers Agnetha's career from its beginnings in a small town in Sweden when she was 15, to knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts in Sweden two years later. Her career is traced through the hard slog of touring around Europe and the consequences of ABBA's success, the Eurovision song contest, concerts, hit records, TV appearances, media attention, fans, her marriage, her children, the good times, the bad times and the strain of the final tour in 1979. Agnetha explains everything and gives the reasons behind the group's break-up and the difficult times which followed.
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 Agnetha Faltskog - As I Am February 22, 2008
James Ronald Colyer (Nashville, Tennessee)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Agnetha Faltskog started her memoirs in 1983 with the help of Brita Ahman. She suspended their collaboration to become a recluse for a number of years. With the ABBA revival in the 1990's, Agnetha's book was finally released. Basically, Agnetha comes off as an airhead with little to say. She wants her privacy, will not discuss her many past and present lovers and dwells on death. Maybe I expected too much from this book, or maybe I wanted to create Agnetha in my own image, being a huge fan of ABBA music. Agnetha insists that she is a normal person, like everybody else. I doubt, however, that average people are so sensitve and conscious of their celebrity.
 A Musician of note November 7, 2007
Phil S. (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The lady's beauty is so astonishing, it may be hard to capture in a mass appeal project; may be something which actually clouded appreciation of her singing, dancing, and writing talent.
Here we have a good career overview, with personal commentary and insights, plus a very useful discography.
A reasonable presumption is that many more photos exist which really bring out her incredible onstage sensuality and charisma; her assertive femininity in an era of militant *feminism* presentiment. Her personae, through these pages, displays a total artist, a deeply philosophical one, who nonetheless knew her job was to make great music with a great group, and dazzle the senses.
Come back to us! November 10, 2005
Tom Hathaway (LONDON UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Listen but once please to me, girl. When I was a punk in the mass company of punkhoodship in the seventies, no-one dared like you, because it would have been social suicide!
Today, all those punks - YES! AND ME! - love you and your music to bits. I challenge YOU, AGNETHA - to listen to any daytime English (yeah, 'popular') radio station and NOT find it at least refreshing to listen to those great ABBA songs again. Just for one song, pretend it isn't you and appreciate the plaintiff gutsy calls of those two girls - never dated; maybe never will. Then compare it for a moment to the slack, indifferent, monotone garbage of today? Please don't get ten years down the line and decide I was right! You're gorgeous! Come back to us?
Tom Hathaway (author, 'FULL BACON JACKET') XXXXXXXXXXX
 Absolute drivel. March 24, 2004
Russell L. Day (Toronto, ON Canada)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
As a huge fan of all things ABBA (really) I was excited to pick up this book, as, for once, I would have loved to have heard Agnetha really stand up for herself and clear up any and all misconceptions about her that she has always said exist. Alas, with this book, it just shows how uncomfortable she is speaking about her life. The pictures are amazing, yet they are just pictures and without any revealing print, show the shallowness that is AF. I mean, if you're going to write an autobiography, then WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY! She just comes off as a poor little whiner, scared of her own shadow and distressed by the fact that she was (and still is, reluctant as she is) an enigmatic star. She doesn't like to fly, doesn't like to talk about her relationships, and, until recently, just liked to stay home or take long walks (which does not make compelling reading...she seems more like a boring, dull-as-dishwater housefrau than your typical celebrity!) But I think there is much more to Agnetha than she has let on; I just refuse to believe that she is this flat and boring. This book asks more questions than it answers. Re-write, please!
One book to fall in love December 10, 2003
Tatiana (Moscow, Russia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have read parts of different books about ABBA, but I have never liked to read the books about my favorite group.. for different reasons - and the main one is because in all these books it was not ABBA members' points of view, but the different person's. This is why I decided to try "As I Am" - not only because Agnetha Faltskog has been my favorite star for 10 years. I started the book the very day I took it in my hands and I was not able to put it aside and go to sleep until the next morning, when I finished it. I just could not go to sleep until I finished!
The book is interesting, it is really very interesting. The style is nice and easy to read, although never plain. The authors shared their opinion on many points and revealed many questions one, who is interested in ABBA or Agnetha, can feel the need to ask. There are some funny and witty momnets that can easy make you smile. And which was the main point, for me at least, you can see the author's thoughts, her opinion on many things, her attitude to many problems. Agnetha really shares a lot with this book. It is not thrue that this book is empty - it is just fuul of deep thoughts of the wonderful woman, she shared with readers.
Oh, yes, and pictures - the pictures are great! This book alone is enpgh to feel in love with the author. Thank you, Agnetha.Sincerely,
Tatiana
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