NOT ABBA is an antidote to 'I LOVE THE 1970s'; it is the real story of the 1970s from the critically acclaimed author of MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. The 1970s is a decade frequently miscast; a parade of fashion disasters soundtracked by glam pop hits or frothy, mainstream disco. The generation who grew up in the 1970s remember the decade differently; inflation, strikes, and polarised politics; violence and conflict; the rise of the National Front; IRA terror campaigns on the British mainland; womens liberation, gay liberation; 'Mean Streets'; 'Taxi Driver' and 'Apocalypse Now'. NOT ABBA tells the story of the 1970s, celebrating the musicians and songs that illuminated and soundtracked the ideas, fashions, sexual revolutions and raw politics of the decade.It provides an antidote to history told via soundbites by exploring life in the margins, and ideas beneath the surface, and by painting the big picture behind the most enduring and influential music of the decade, .