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ABBA has announced reunion and announced the first album in 40 years
The Swedish disco group ABBA announced the release of the first studio album in 40 years and announced Reunion. The musicians made statements from London during YouTube Stram on Thursday evening.
The new full -format album of 10 songs was called Voyage, it will appear in access on November 5, on the eve of Christmas sales in Europe and America. Two of the 10 new songs - I Still Have Faith in You and Don 'SHUT ME Down - have already been sounded during Stream.
The musicians gathered in the studio in the original composition back in 2018. “At first there were only two songs, and then we said:“ Okay, maybe it is worth doing a few more, ”” Benny Andersson participated in the group.
The Swedes will also open their own arena in London, where ABBA will give a series of concerts. At the same time, not the participants themselves will enter the stage, but their “young” holograms, called the “Abbatars”. Virtual musicians were created by the director of Star Wars George Lucas.
“You can’t even imagine how it is possible to release the album after 40 years and remain best friends, still enjoy each other's society and maintain absolute fidelity. Who had this? No one, ”said Bjorn Ulveus.
On August 30, ABBA opened an official account in Tiktok after many years of silence. They published a short video on which an unknown pianist (only his hands are visible) plays the hit Dancing Queen. Later it turned out that it was Bannie Andersson. The video scored a million likes and 7 million views.
The last album of Abba The Visitors was released in 1981, after which the group broke up after only 10 years of existence. Agneta Feltskog and Anni-Fried Lingstad no longer returned to the project, and Bjorn Ulveus and Benny Andersson worked together on the Mamma Mia and Chess muscles. In 2000, a quartet was offered a billion dollars for reunification and world tour, but they said they would no longer get together.
ABBA became the first Swedish group, whose singles and albums occupied the first lines of world charts. Their albums are sold by tens of millions. Now the quartet musicians are from 71 to 76 years old.