This December 2021 and May 2022, ABBA will be performing a re-union Concert worldwide on a closed-circuit screen.
I can only say that if you wish to attend… get your tickets NOW.
Both of these Concerts will be sold out Worldwide.
The group will be singing but an Avatar technology will make their faces look as if they were in their thirties.
The technology can be seen in the last 30 seconds of ” I Still Have faith In You “
The group just released a New Album ” VOYAGE “. It has been
a 40 year wait for the majority off fans. ( including myself )
Go buy the album. It will sell out.
After all their personal troubles and their inevitable breakup,
fans still loved the music flocking to Tribute shows and movies
that contained ABBA music. Most especially the stage Musical
“Mama Mia ” Every night within the final 15 minutes, the audience
were on their feet singing and cheering the play. It was astonishing.
Frida married Benny and Agnetha married Bjorn.
For 10 years all they saw were each other and their families.
Always touring and recording. Always together.
Somewhere on a road trip… Frida had an affair with Bjorn.
Agnetha retaliated and had an affair with Benny.
It affected the girls relationship more than it did the boys.
Both couples got divorced and then Frida married Bjorn and Agnetha married Benny.
They reconciled with each other and then ABBA went back out on a world tour
and remained in their second marriages until the band broke up in 1980.
Shortly afterward both couples filed for divorced again.
Agnetha remained in Sweden, almost a recluse and releasing a
Swedish album every so often. She never remarried.
Frida continued singing , mostly Jazz and went on European tours.
She married a Swiss Prince… and Switzerland made her a Swiss Princess.
Benny and Bjorn came to an understanding and went to London
and continued to write for other artists, producing and arranging music
It was in London where they began writing ” Mama Mia “.
Both are remarried.
The girls did not speak to each other for Five years.
At the premier opening of Mama Mia in London, the girls reconciled as time
and circumstance and forgiveness heals all slights.
Today… Bjorn is 76….Benny is 74
Frida is 75….Agnetha is 71
Although the group is Swedish, Frida is actually Norwegian.
They were all knighted by the Swedish King as the group was bigger than
Volvo , bringing more money and acclaim to Sweden than most of their
industries.
Agnetha had just turned 18 when she met Bjorn and joined the band.
Frida was 23 singing Jazz in Stockholm when Benny was in the audience.
He knew she would be perfect for the band and asked her to join
Agnetha is a pure Soprano. Frida is a Mezzo-Soprano.
The first time they sang together at the first rehearsal it was magic.
The interesting thing about the rehearsal was that Agnetha did not speak English.
Frida had some English, as she sang Jazz Phonetically, but she was not fluent.
If you listen closely to their early records you can hear their accents
Together with the Tenor and Baritone of Bjorn and Benny…beautiful music and voices emerged.
Bjorn and Benny wrote all the songs for their albums.
I always felt that the four of them… are parts of the same soul.
Listen to these two songs from their new album. They don’t miss
a beat, even after 40 years.
Both songs are about themselves as ABBA.
ABBA is the first letter of their first names :
Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-Frid
Yes … I’m a big fan .
Enjoy
Don’t Shut Me Down : ABBA Agnetha sings lead.
I Still Have Faith in You :: ABBA ( Frida sings lead )
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