Great article about the Rolling Stones
The Big Issue Australia
ABBA - Ed#648
ABBA - Ed#648
Regular price
$9.00 AUD
Regular price
Sale price
$9.00 AUD
Taxes included.
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
We’re a nation of ABBA fans,” writes Claire Isaac in The Big Issue. “The band were super (trouper) successful here in their heyday… The Best of Abba, a 1976 TV special made for the Australian market, got more views than the 1969 moon landing.” After 40 long years, ABBA are back, and mamma mia, are we ready to celebrate! In this edition, we look at ABBA’s Aussie legacy, and thank them for the music.
“ABBA broke at a time when there was all sorts of music on the radio and in the top 40, but nothing quite like ABBA,” says Ian Cole, author of the book ABBA: Song By Song, in The Big Issue. “There was something in the music and the look of the group in their video clips that appealed.”
Also in this edition:
- Benny Andersson talks the early days of ABBA, giving up drinking and becoming a dad at 16 in his Letter to My Younger Self.
- Björn Again’s Benny Anderwear gives us his tips to ignite your inner Dancing Queen, including some helpful ironing hacks for sequins.
- Banoffee gets emotional on her new album Teartracks. We talk to her about thwarted COVID plans, break-ups and the lessons she learned from Charli XCX.
- Author Hannah Kent talks traversing time and space to celebrate queer love in her new novel Devotion.
- In Tastes Like Home, Poh Ling Yeow shares her recipe for Asam (Penang) Laksa: the Malaysian soup that gave her chilli wings as a kid, and still makes her mouth jig like no other.
Impact with every purchase
Proceeds from The Big Issue online store go directly back into funding our programs including The Big Issue magazine, the Women’s Workforce and The Big Issue Classroom.
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.7 / 5 from 22 reviews.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Jaws article Time certainly flies
Love the interesting articles ...the Ansett pilot wow 74 and still flying and what she went through to achieve it , just wow!
Great Very happy to have received the publication Kind regards
Took longer than I expected to arrive, but it was 100% good had the option when I'd no other way to buy it & have it posted to me.
For a great cause. Always a great read. Never disappointed :)
so important to honour 30 years of The Big Issue ... and many lovely encounters with our sellers
long live big issue!
Found the magazine very good reading First time purchase Will be buying more
Really interesting articles as usual and massive congrats on 30 years!
The Big Issue 30th Anniversary Edition 763 is choc full of very interesting and informative articles. I particularly liked vendor Marion's pictorial of Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market and the CBD. The next time you see a vendor do them and yourself a favour. Buy a Big Issue magazine.
Lovely magazine and a credit to the 30 year anniversary :)
Loved the stories, pictures and content of this magazine issue, thanks!
I particularly wanted to read the Rose Byrne piece who was featured on the front cover of The Big Issue, Edition 758. But, more importantly I enjoyed many of the other features in this magazine, in particular, the archive piece on Heath Ledger, the inspiring piece from Deborah Lawrie with her letter to her younger self and Shaun Micallef personal discussion on AI. Thank you for serving up such an interesting magazine.
I must admit I purchased this edition as my son had an article printed in it. When I was looking for this edition I spoke to one of the lovely sellers in the city and he was so helpful looking to see if the article was in that edition. Since then I have found out a lot more about the Big Issue and how they help disadvantaged Australians to become more independent and I think they are awesome. Overall the magazine is very professionally set out and of course has some great articles. Love reading about the sellers
I love The Big Issue calendars and have been buying the every year I can since they started. I missed out locally this time so was very happy to be able to buy it online, thereby avoiding a whole year of FOMO
CALENDAR: I love the alternating pages, where month A is a cartoon by Andrew Weldon, and month B is a profile of a Big Issue seller. FICTION EDITION: 12 short stories, including one by Trent Dalton (Boy Swallows Universe)
Always a great read & printed for a wonderful cause. Keep up the great work.
I ordered online, which took alot longer than my last order & as it appears it was delayed before it arrived recently after about a month?
I've been buying the Big Issue for many years (though not 30). I live in Wollongong, I don't remember seeing a vendor here, but I have often bought a copy when I have to go to Sydney for work. I always enjoy reading it on the train on my way home, as well as feeling good that I have done something to help somebody to help themselves. Love your work, all the best for the next 30 years!
TBH… As a ‘there at the start’ contributor, think it would’ve been good to show some of the ‘early’ editions and people who helped make TBI what it has become… Behind the ‘sellers’ is a lot of pre-production content…
Less speculative fiction. More character driven stories.