Fernando: A Song by ABBA

Since its release in 1976, ABBA’s song “Fernando” has been loved by fans around the globe both for its sing—along chorus and its revolutionary spirit. In Fernando, Kay Dickinson takes readers from Sweden and Chile to Australia and Poland, tracing the complicated ways the song could express support with anticapitalist and Third World liberation struggles while remaining an unrepentant commodity. A song about freedom fighters was unlikely to become a pop mega—hit, yet as Dickinson demonstrate...