VARIOUS ARTISTS Not Abba: The Real Story of the 1970s (2005 UK 360-page softback book by Dave Haslam which celebrates the musicians and songs that illuminated and soundtracked the ideas, fashions, sexual revolutions and raw politics of the decade. The book paints the bigger picture behind the most enduring and influential music of the decade, including the politicised soul and funk of Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, the punk explosion, new wave, and the years of Ziggy Stardust, gay disco, the Stooges, Patti Smith, the Raincoats, Cabaret Voltaire, the Specials, and black British reggae)
