Abba

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After ABBA triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, their brand of pop stormed the charts. The dancing queens split in 1983 and have so far resisted a billion-dollar offer to reform.

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ABBA

Bjorn Ulvaeus

“The best of luck. I always thought that anyone who looks like me ought to have a successful career.”

“An ABBA revival was inevitable, but ‘Bjorn Again’ certainly initiated it!”

Benny Anderson

“Fans had better make the most out of ‘Bjorn Again’ because that’s the closest they are going to get to seeing ABBA. ABBA will never reform!”

“I really believe that Swedish music and artists can make it abroad… It hasn’t happened before because no one has really tried… I am convinced it can be done and that I can do it.”

“I really enjoy what I do – without work, life would be meaningless.”

“It’s much pleasanter for me to produce music in the studio than to just reproduce it on the stage.”

“Our secret, if we have one, is to be completely ruthless about the material we write.”

“We neither read nor write music. If we knew how, we still wouldn’t use the skill.”

Agnetha Faltskog

“ABBA’s last tour was a success but awful for me.”

“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”

“I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels’ tracks behind me in the snow.”

“I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.”

“I must be allowed to be as I am.”

“There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.”

Lasse Hallstrom

“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an ABBA video on TV then it’s my stuff.”

“’ABBA: The Movie’, I got a lot of grief for working on that.”