ABBA.Photo: OLLE LINDEBORG/AFP via Getty
The Swedish supergroup shared asocial media poston Thursday announcing something calledABBA Voyage, which linked to new social media pages and invited fans to “join” them on Sept. 2.
Agnetha Fältskog, 71, Björn Ulvaeus, 76, Benny Andersson, 74, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 75, also shared a clip of their 1982 song “You Owe Me One” on Instagram in addition to news of ABBA Voyage, the art for which featured a photo of a solar eclipse.
Though the project has long been delayed, Ulvaeus toldThe Timesin April that ABBA has recorded five new songs and are still planning an “avatar tour” for 2022.
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“I’m forbidden to say anything more about it,” he said. “All I can say is that it was fantastic in the studio because it was like yesterday. It was so strange coming into that studio and the four of us looking at each other and thinking, ‘What is this?’ It all came rushing back.”
The songs will be the first new material in nearly 40 years from ABBA, who reunited in June 2016 toperform in publicfor the first time in three decades.
“It was absolutely amazing. A lot of emotions,” Lyngstad told Espressen after the performance, which was held in Stockholm to honor the 50th anniversary of Ulvaeus and Andersson’s friendship. “We’ve made this journey throughout our history. Benny and Björn in particular. It’s been very nostalgic.”
ABBA rocketed to international stardom in 1974 after their song “Waterloo” won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Though they split in 1982, their music has found new life thanks to the success of the Broadway hit (and subsequent movie adaptation of)Mamma Mia!, as well as ABBA’s surprise popularity on the social media app TikTok, where songs like “Chiquitita” and “Slipping Through My Fingers” have been trending.
source: people.com
