OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD. if AFP are fucking with me, there will be recriminations, believe me.
LONDON, March 26 AFP – Swedish pop group Abba could re-unite for a one-off performance after years of rejecting calls to take to the stage again, two former members of the band hinted in an interview on Friday.
Asked by Britain’s Times newspaper whether they would consider regrouping for an intimate show that could be filmed and beamed to audiences across the world, Benny Andersson responded: “Yeah, why not?”
“I don’t know if the girls sing any more,” he said, referring to the female ex-members of the quartet, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faeltskog.
“I know Frida was in the studio.”
“It’s not a bad idea, actually,” he added, in response to the newspaper’s suggestion of a performance with only invited guests and families, perhaps accompanied by a small orchestra.
Bjoern Ulvaeus, who with Andersson wrote hits including Dancing Queen and Waterloo”, joked: “We could sing The Way Old Folks Do.”
He was referring to the song The Way Old Friends Do, from the album Super Trouper.
The reaction from the pair — speaking in London where they were working on a new musical theatre production — marks a change in tone to how they have responded to repeated requests to stage come-back shows in the past.
Last year, in the wake of the success of Mamma Mia! — the musical and film based on their hits — Ulvaeus vowed the group would never perform together again.
He told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper he wanted fans to remember the band as “young, exuberant, full of energy and ambition”.
“We will never appear on stage again,” he said.
“There is simply no motivation to regroup. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were.”
i have absolutely have no shame in telling you that abba were the loves of my life between the ages of 10 and oh, now. i papered my bedroom wall solidly with abba posters. i kissed them all good night, each and every night. seriously. with tongue and everything.
i am all verklempt at this news, people. this is better than the invention of the banana paddlepop.
really.
