ABBA The Museum

This guide to ABBA The Museum in Stockholm starts with an ordinary upright piano wired live to Benny Andersson's home studio, then walks past the gold records and the original Polar Studios mixing console to the man who built the empire behind them, manager Stig Anderson. You'll hear how Anderson, chasing a way around Sweden's punishing taxes, struck a barter deal to sell ABBA's records into the Soviet Union in exchange for oil, and how that workaround pulled Polar Music into a serious tax investigation. Listen for what it meant for the four band members who had trusted him with everything.