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a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

are iconic—some rolled off commercial printing presses but many were hand-crafted and were sold at concerts

Universal Mother was the first recorded work from O'Connor since her duo of protests in 1992 (Saturday Night Live

Gould masterfully captures the singular time and place that incubated and nurtured this original music: downtown New York in the 1970s

Abba's Abba Gold patti smith but she also unleashed aPerhaps more than any other Greatest Hits compilation, Abba Gold has come to define a band's career on one disk. More than that, its release in 1992 heralded the critical rehabilitation of a group which had, since its demise a decade earlier, become little more than a memory of trashy costumes and cheesy tunes to many people. Here, Elisabeth Vincentelli charts the circumstances surrounding the birth of Abba Gold, looks at the impact it had on the