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“ABBA’S RIFFS ARE UNDERRATED!”

was when they were kids in the 80s that Dan Hawkins and his older brother Justin discovered the pop genius of ABBA. And in the early 2000s, when their own band The Darkness made it big, they scored a huge hit with Love Is Only A Feeling, a power ballad in which Dan replicated the amazing acoustic guitar sound in one of ABBA’s classic songs. “People don’t even think about it,” Dan says, “but

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