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lunes, 11 de octubre de 2010

ABBA - THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO - LIVE IN DORTMUND



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miércoles, 29 de septiembre de 2010

ONE MORE CD???!!!! Wow, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog, have disccused the possibility of singing together again!!!



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ABBA GIRLS PLAN A REUNION



Abba girls Frida and Agnetha are planning a reunion

Wednesday September 29,2010


ABBA fans rejoice. Almost 30 years after their break-up, the much-loved Swedish group’s two female stars are thinking of planning a musical reunion.

Singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, known to fans as Frida, reveals that she and former band mate Agnetha Faltskog have discussed working with each other again.

The pair have not performed together since Abba folded in 1983 and 60-year-old Agnetha has been particularly keen to stay out of the limelight in recent years.

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“It would be great to do something with Agnetha,” says Frida, 65. “If we did, it would be hard to avoid all the pressure because of Abba. It could never be low-key.”

The band, which has sold more than 375 million records, consisted of two couples, with Agnetha married to Bjorn Ulvaeus while Frida was married to Benny Andersson. Both couples later divorced and the two men have previously ruled out a full Abba comeback.

But Frida says she and Agnetha can’t resist privately weighing up the possibility of working together. “We talk about it,” she adds.

Both women have recently stepped back into the studio after years away from music. Frida recently recorded a duet with Swedish pal Georg Wadenius – a cover of Cat Stevens’ song Morning Has Broken. Meanwhile Agnetha is said to want to record with Swedish pop star Robyn.

Since the band’s split, the Abba songs have been made into West End musical Mamma Mia! as well as a film of the same name. Earlier this year the band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Ohio.

But the stars of the group have appeared together only twice since they went their separate ways – in 2005 for the Stockholm premiere of Mamma Mia! and again in 2008 for the film premiere. The band still sells nearly three million records a year and was last year voted the group that the British public most wanted to see re-formed. Fingers crossed they will get their wish.


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Abba girls 'considering reunion'
Almost 30 years after their split the two female members of Abba are considering a reunion, it has been reported.


Published: 8:00AM BST 29 Sep 2010


Anni-Frid Lyngstad, more commonly known as Frida, has said that she and her former bandmate, Agnetha Faltskog, have disccused the possibility of singing together again.

The duo have not sung together since Abba disbanded in 1983.


"It would be great to do something with Agnetha,” said Frida, 65.

"If we did, it would be hard to avoid all the pressure because of Abba. It could never be low-key,” the Daily Express reported.

The Swedish pop group sold more than 375 million records during their 11-year-stint as one of the world's most successful bands.

Abba consisted of two couples, with Agnetha married to Bjorn Ulvaeus and Frida was married to Benny Andersson. Both couples later divorced.

The men have gone on record ruling out a comeback.

The band first shot to fame on Eurovision and their hits include Waterloo and Super Trouper.

Abba was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March this year.

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Agnetha Fältskog och Anni-Frid Lyngstad ska jobba tillsammans igen. Foto: ALL OVER PRESS
Rykten om att ABBA ska återförenas i engelsk press
LONDON. Spekulationer om att Abba ska återförenas har skapat stor uppståndelse i England.
Nyheten pryder dagens förstasida av Daily Express.

Artikeln, som slås upp stort i tidningen, antyder att Anni-Frid Lyngstad och Agnetha Fältskog planerar att jobba ihop igen. Uppgifterna har sitt ursprung i citat från en artikel i Dagens Nyheter som tidigare publicerats. I den säger Anni-Frid:
– Vi pratar och skrattar om det ibland, men livet förändras, man blir äldre och det är så mycket annat som får betydelse och tar tid. Men det är klart att det skulle vara jättekul att göra något med Agnetha. Fast det är svårt, skulle vi göra något så skulle det bli under så otroligt pretentiösa former med alla krav och all press. Det finns en sådan nyfikenhet så att vi aldrig kan göra något opretentiöst, just därför tror jag inte att det blir av.
Spelade in duett

Anni-Frid spelade nyligen in en duett med Jojje Wadenius. Enligt Daily Express ska Agnetha vara sugen på att spela in med Robyn. Abba säljer fortfarande tre miljoner skivor om året och fansen slutar aldrig hoppas på en återförening.

Av Therese Färsjö
therese.farsjo@expressen.

http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.2154710/rykten-om-att-abba-ska-aterforenas-i-engelsk-press


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ABBA-jentene planlegger gjenforening
- Vi kan ikke motstå tanken...
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29. sep 2010 kl 21:50
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SEHER.NO: Nesten 30 år etter bruddet, planlegger de to kvinnelige stjernene fra det svenske suksessbandet ABBA, en musikalsk gjenforening.

Anni-Frid Lyngstad (65), bedre kjent som Frida, avslører at hun og Agnetha Fältskog (60) ønsker å samarbeide i fremtiden.

Paret har ikke opptrådt sammen siden ABBA gikk i oppløsning i 1983.

- Det ville vært fantastisk å arbeide sammen med Agnetha. Men det kommer til å bli vanskelig å unngå alt presset, på grunn av ABBA. Det vil nok ikke gå stille for seg, sier Lyngstad til britiske Express.

Begge kvinnene har nylig vært i studioet, etter flere års musikkfravær. Frida har spilt inn en duett med sin svenske venn George Wadenium, mens Agnetha angivelig ønsker å lage musikk med den svenske popstjernen Robyn.

Frida sier at hun og Agnetha ikke kan motstå tanken på å jobbe sammen igjen.

- Vi snakker om det, sier hun.

Kun to ganger siden de gikk hvert til sitt, har de fire medlemmene av ABBA vist seg sammen.



http://www.seher.no/852515/anni-frid-lyngstad-og-agnetha-faltskog-vil-opptre-sammen-igjen

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Agnetha Fältskog på en bild tagen 2008 till vänster. Robyn under årets MTV video music awards i Los Angeles till höger. Foto: Scanpix / Stella pictures
Drömduett med Robyn och Agnetha Fältskog kan bli verklighet
Robyn och Agnetha Fältskog.
Ja, det kan bli en riktig drömduett.
- Hon bad mig ringa henne om jag ville spela in något, säger Robyn i en intervju med nöjessajten Holymoly.com.

I videointervjun, som även finns på You Tube, får Robyn ta ställning till vilka kända personer hon kan tänka sig att hänga med.
Bland andra Tomten, Sarah Palin, Jesus och Stephen Hawking är några av namnen som nämns.
"Hon har scenskräck"

Även så den kultförklarade sångerskan Agnetha Fältskog, tidigare medlem i Abba.
Då släpper vår svenska världsartist den första bomben: För ett antal år sedan försökte Robyn få Fältskog, som nu lever ett liv långt från strålkastarljuset, att göra en duett på scen.
- Jag försökte få henne att sjunga "With every heartbeat" med mig. Men hon har scenskräck, så hon uppträder aldrig nu för tiden, säger Robyn i intervjun med Holymoly.com.
"Bad mig ringa"

Och efter det exploderar nästa bomb: Robyn avslöjar nämligen att duettdrömmarna inte nödvändigtvis är helt körda.
- Hon bad mig ringa henne om jag ville spela in något med henne.
Robyn är just nu aktuell med andra delen i den albumtrilogi som började med skivan "Body talk pt.1". Hon turnerar samtidigt flitigt runt om i världen.
Senast Agnetha Fältskog släppte en skiva var 2004. Då hade det gått 17 år sedan sist.

Av Mattias Bergqvist
mattias.bergqvist@expressen.se
Publicerat 26 sep 2010 19:54:24
Uppdaterad 26 sep 2010 19:54:24

http://www.expressen.se/noje/musik/1.2151386/dromduett-med-robyn-och-agnetha-faltskog-kan-bli-verklighet

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The Way Old Friends Do


ONE MORE CD, PLEASE!!



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domingo, 27 de junio de 2010

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viernes, 26 de marzo de 2010

ABRI BIEN LOS OJOS!!! OPEN YOUR EYES!!! Abba to re-form? ‘Yeah, why not?’


































March 26, 2010
Abba to re-form? ‘Yeah, why not?’
Abba

Abba in their heyday
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A reunion? Don’t talk to Abba about a reunion. Except, of course, that it’s hard not to. Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus are aware of the protocol. “Don’t worry, I know you have to ask,” says Andersson, a baby-faced 64, when he sees me edging towards the question. The last time I edged uneasily towards the question, in May 2002, Ulvaeus said flatly: “There’s no amount of money in the world that could persuade me to do that.”

Since then they’ve regularly been politely rebutting requests to re-form , not only from fans who weren’t born when Abba imploded, but from promoters who, according to Ulvaeus, offered “crazy” sums for a farewell tour — in one case $1 billion (£600 million). Every time the thought of “the looks on the faces in the audience as they realised we had grown old” meant that Abba had long faced their Waterloo.

Eight years later there’s no reason to believe that Ulvaeus and his songwriting foil of four decades might react any differently. And yet, for one extraordinary moment at the end of our encounter, a realisation stirs into life that there may be a way to turn the longed-for reunion into a reality.

However, obliging as they are when it comes to talking about their pop star years, that’s not the reason they are here. Andersson and Ulvaeus are in London overseeing rehearsals for the UK premiere of their most ambitious project. Abba fans might want to take a raincheck on Kristina when it comes to the Albert Hall next month. On the face of it, Vilhelm Moberg’s 2,000-page epic about Swedish emigrants in the 19th century isn’t the most obvious of contenders for musical theatre treatment. Nevertheless, in 1995, when Kristina opened in Malmö, Swedish reviewers greeted it with a fervour that eclipsed anything that Andersson and Ulvaeus had achieved with Abba.


Quite what British audiences will make of it is another matter. “We’ve cut the play down from three hours to two,” Ulvaeus says. “And I approached Herbert Kretzmer, who did Les Misérables, to translate the lyrics into English.”

Kretzmer obliged — although even he couldn’t do justice to one of the few gags in the original version, a bilingual joke predicated on the similarity of the word “speed” and the Swedish term for breaking wind. “It’s probably for the best,” says Ulvaeus, his 65-year-old frame a slip of what it was when he squeezed into that satin jump suit on the night of Abba’s Eurovision triumph. “We wouldn’t dream of making a fart joke at the Albert Hall.”

Be that as it may, newly retitled highlights such as Burial at Sea, I Am Reconciled to My Fate and Miscarriage confirm that Mamma Mia 2 is very much not on the cards. To Andersson it’s a chance to show a British audience what he and Ulvaeus have been up to. “One reason we never cared about breaking America,” he says, “is that the English people treated us like their own.” Ulvaeus adds, though, that “it did make us spoilt. With Top of the Pops you could reach all of Britain. But in America you reached a tiny audience doing silly TV shows we didn’t want to do anyway.”

I suggest that some members of the group showed their reluctance a little more readily than others. Anyone who persists in believing that blondes have more fun might care to read Agnetha Fältskog’s 1997 autobiography As I Am. “No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical crowd,” she wrote, “could avoid feeling shivers up and down their spine. It’s a thin line between ecstatic celebration and menace.”

Was it really that bad? As her ex-husband and father to her two children, you’d think Ulvaeus would know, but he sounds unsure. “She didn’t seem unhappy at the time. It’s strange the way that history sometimes becomes rewritten and it becomes the truth.”

He’s not just talking about Fältskog here. Such revisionism, he feels, also extends to the place Abba hold in the collective memory. “It’s not just people wanting to hear the songs. It has more to do with people wanting to be in some kind of mood that is fictitious. A mood of ‘the Seventies’ that Abba represents but is not rooted in reality. For instance, we never thought in our wildest dreams that we would be gay icons.”

I put it to him that Fältskog might have had something to do with the whole gay icons thing. “But why?” Ulvaeus counters. “She’s a very heterosexual woman. I know.”

That’s not how it works, I tell him. “How does it work, then?” he asks. Well, it all goes back to her not looking happy. You could tell that she was suffering inside, but she carried on in the name of showbiz. Ulvaeus remains unsure: “Hmm. It could be the outfits and the Eurovision.”

At times, Ulvaeus’s perspective on Abba’s legacy is so unknowing that it’s a struggle not to leap across the coffee table, where his fishcakes have just been delivered, and hug him. How could he and Andersson have written Hi-NRG hymns to physical desire such as Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) and Lay All Your Love on Me and not think it might play out well with their gay fanbase? “We didn’t realise it. We were just releasing another song, that’s all." Play Abba’s albums in chronological order and the effect is something akin to having your emotional dimmer switch turned slowly down. With the bulk of 1980’s Super Trouper album written after Ulvaeus and Fältskog’s divorce, the group’s music changed to mirror their personal situations. The Winner Takes it All was written in a red wine-abetted stupor of self-pity. “Usually it’s not a good idea to write when you’re drunk,” Ulvaeus says, “but it all came out on that one. By the time I wrote ‘The gods may throw their dice’ the bottle was empty.”

By the time they recorded their last song together, The Day Before You Came, “we were really in the dark”, Andersson says. Abba’s swansong seems to harbour a pop mystery as enduring as the identity of the subject of Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain. What happened after this guy “came”? Ulvaeus smiles enigmatically, but he’s not saying. “You’ve spotted it, haven’t you? The music is hinting at it. You can tell in that song that we were straining towards musical theatre.

“We got Agnetha to act the part of the person in that song. In retrospect, it might have been too much of a change for a lot of Abba fans. The energy had gone.”

For the remainder of the 1980s, Ulvaeus felt that “our music had fallen so out [of fashion] that people looked down on it”. In the early 1990s, when tribute bands such as Björn Again popped up, they merely compounded the uneasy feeling in Ulvaeus’s mind that people were laughing at Abba. “I heard that they spoke with a Swedish accent between the songs, which made me pissed off. But then I spoke to people who went to the shows. They said that it’s a happy feeling and that people are enjoying themselves immensely.”

Years later, of course, we know that irony is merely the first step on the way to critical and commercial rehabilitation. It isn’t irony that has sold 28 million copies of Abba Gold and — thanks to Mamma Mia!’s passage from Broadway to Hollywood — that finally broken them in America.

When Brian Higgins — the producer-writer behind Girls Aloud — set up his Xenomania hit factory, he said that “SOS was the benchmark song we aspired to reach melodically”. “Funnily enough,” Ulvaeus says, “that was also the song that Pete Townshend mentioned when he came up to me in a restaurant one time. He said he thought it was the best pop song ever written.”

If challenged to do so, could Andersson and Ulvaeus sit down and write a song like that now? “I’m not sure,” Ulvaeus says. “Look at the hookline of Poker Face by Lady Gaga. That could have been written in the Seventies, but the way the song is put together is different. Do I like it? I love it.”

“I haven’t heard it,” Andersson says.

“Oh, it’s fantastic!” Ulvaeus says. “You’re the only one.”

In 2010, our sense of what a great pop song should be tallies more with the qualities found in Abba’s music than any other group. If someone doesn’t “get” Abba they seem to be rooted in a less enlightened era. A few years ago, I suggested to Roger Waters that Pink Floyd’s Animals bore certain thematic similarities to Abba’s final album The Visitors. Taking umbrage at the notion, Waters sniffed: “From the first ‘my’ on Waterloo I was an ex-listener.”

“Well, he missed a lot of the good stuff,” Andersson says. “At least he knows it starts with ‘my’ — that’s something. Dark Side of the Moon is not bad. They made some wonderful records.” Ulvaeus seems rather more put out by Waters’s comment. “It’s a bit pretentious, isn’t it? That attitude of: ‘I wouldn’t stoop so low.’ ”

Over at Earls Court, a mile from here, the presence of Abba World confirms that the imperious former Floyd frontman finds himself in a shrinking minority. Such is the love for Abba that thousands of fans a week are paying £21 each to see an exhibition that, among the karaoke opportunities and replica Arrival helicopter, seems to revel in the defiantly workaday environs — the re-creation of their manager’s office springs to mind — that spawned deathless pop such as Dancing Queen and Take a Chance on Me. “It was a chance to clear out some stuff from the attic,” Andersson says. “Have I been to see it? No. I lived it the first time.”

No point then in asking if he would want to live it again. Probably not. But footage of Fältskog at Abba World, talking with surprising affection about her contribution to the group’s biggest hits, is fresh in my mind. Reunions can take all sorts of different forms. A lucrative world tour might be out of the question, but what about something more low-key? I float the idea of an intimate, one-off performance for invited guests and families, perhaps with a small orchestra, focusing on some of the more “mature” material from the later albums. The whole thing could be filmed and the rights licensed out to TV stations around the world.

Alluding to Super Trouper’s final song The Way Old Friends Do, Ulvaeus’s first response is seemingly in jest: “We could sing The Way Old Folks Do!” Andersson, by contrast, seems deeper in thought. “Yeah, why not?” he nods. As if working through the logistics, he adds: “I don’t know if the girls sing anything any more. I know Frida [Anni-Frid Lyngstad] was [recently] in the studio.”

And on her most recent solo album, five years ago, Fältskog was in fine voice. “If you can sing, you can sing,” he concurs. Then, a little later, “It’s not a bad idea, actually.”

Alas, though, as the door to a reunion appears to open ever so slightly, so does another one. Andersson and Ulvaeus have to rush back to the Albert Hall, where rehearsals are under way. In two weeks, Kristina has its premiere. And then what? Like the song goes: “If you change your mind . . .”

Kristina is at the Albert Hall, London SW7 (020-7589 8212), on April 14

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7076275.ece
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2010-03-26
”ABBA kan återförenas”
”Ingen dålig idé” Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid
”Ingen dålig idé” Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Reuss och Agnetha Fältskog har bara sjungit en gång sedan ABBA officiellt splittrades 1983.
Foto: AP
Benny Andersson gillar idén.


Benny öppnar för ett nytt framträdande

LONDON. Fans över hela världen drömmer om ett återförenat Abba.

För första gången öppnar nu Björn och Benny för tanken.

– Det är faktiskt ingen dålig idé, säger Benny Andersson.

År 2000 tackade ABBA nej till en miljard dollar för en återföreningsturné med 100 spelningar över världen.

Enda gången Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Reuss och Agnetha Fältskog sjungit tillsammans sedan gruppens splittring ska ha varit på mångåriga medarbetaren Görel Hansers 50-årsdag 2003.

Svaret på den eviga frågan om en återförening har ständigt varit nej. Tills i dag.

Den brittiska tidningen Times får svaret som ger en liten glimma hopp till fansen.
”Frida var i studion nyligen”

På frågan om man inte skulle kunna tänka sig ett intimt engångsframträdande, kanske tillsammans med en orkester, en spelning som skulle kunna tv-sändas över hela världen, kommer det oväntade svaret.

– Ja, varför inte? Jag vet inte om tjejerna sjunger längre. Jag vet att Frida var i studion nyligen, säger Benny Andersson till Times.
Invigde ABBA World

Lite senare under intervjun ska Benny Andersson också ha lagt till:

– Det är faktiskt ingen dålig idé.

När Aftonbladet träffade Björn Ulvaeus och Anni-Frid Reuss under invigningen av ABBA World-utställningen i London i januari förnekade båda att det fanns några planer på en återförening.
Torbjörn Ek


http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/article6845306.ab

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ABBA : The Way Old Friends Do (Live London '79)

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ABBA perform "The Way Old Friends Do" LIVE in Tokyo (Budokan) during their Japan Tour in March 1980.


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From abba's 1979 concert tour of North America and Europe.


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Ex integrantes no descartan reencuentro del grupo Abba

08:53 AM Estocolmo/Londres.- Después de 27 años, Abba cambia de tono ante la posibilidad de una reunificación: "Sí, ¿por qué no? No sería mala idea", dijo Benny Andersson, ex miembro del legendario cuarteto sueco, citado hoy por el diario británico "The Times".

Hasta ahora, Andersson y los otros tres miembros de Abba (Björn Ulvaeus y las cantantes Agnetha Fältskog y Anni-Frid Lyngstad) siempre descartaron categóricamente regresar a los escenarios.

El cuarteto se separó en 1983, tras éxitos como "Dancing Queen", "Waterloo" o "Take A Chance On Me". El matrimonio Fältskog y Ulvaeus y Andersson y Lyngstad emprendieron ya caminos en solitario durante los tiempso de la banda, destacó DPA.

http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/03/26/music_ava_ex-integrantes-no-de_26A3649333.shtml

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RTVE.es/REUTERS - MADRID 26.03.2010 - 12:45hEn 2000 una jugosísima oferta de 1.000 millones de dólares (746 millones de euros) no fue capaz de reunir a los componentes de ABBA para una gira mundial.
Diez años después y el continuo aumento del mito gracias al éxito del musical Mamma mia!, los cuatro artistas suecos podrían volver a juntarse para tocar tras casi 30 años separados.
"Sí, ¿por qué no?", fue la respuesta de Benny Andersson, uno de los dos componentes masculinos del cuarteto, cuando fue interrogado sobre la posibilidad de una gira con una orquesta en una entrevista para The Times, con motivo de la promoción del musical Kristina, que se estrena el Londres el 14 de abril.
"No sé si las chicas [en referencia a "Frida" Lyngstad y Agnetha Fältskog] siguen cantando. Sé que Frida estuvo grabando", añadió el músico. "Realmente no es una mala idea", subrayó.
Björn Ulvaeus, por su parte y en la misma entrevista, hizo un guiño a la idea al afirmar que "podríamos cantar como en los viejos tiempos ("The Way Old Folks Do", dijo)", en referencia a la canción del álbum Super Trouper.
Los expertos han considerado siempre que hay demasiados obstáculos para ese posible reencuentro, entre otros la vida de ermitaña que lleva Agnetha Faltskog.

Frida Lyngstad estaría dispuesta

Sin embargo, los seguidores de ABBA pueden albergar aunque sea una brizna de esperanza. También Andersson and Ulvaeus se negaron a reunir el grupo anteriormente.
Hace dos años, Ulvaeus aseguró que "nunca nos subiremos a un escenario otra vez; no hay motivos para reunirse. El dinero no es un factor y nos gustaría que la gente nos recordase como éramos: jóvenes, exuberantes, llenos de energía y ambición".
Lyngstad se casó con un príncipe alemán y vive en los Alpes suizos. Se cree que estaría relativamente bien dispuesta al reencuentro, según The Times.
La última vez que el cuarteto se juntó públicamente fue en 2008, en el estreno en Estocolmo de la película Mamma mia!, basada en el musical del mismo nombre.

http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100326/una-vuelta-abba-por-que/325438.shtml

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Mama mía, ¿vuelve Abba?

Redacción

BBC Mundo

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Annifrid Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Benny Andersson luego de ganar el concurso Eurovisión en 1974

El grupo sueco Abba ingresó al Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll a mediados de marzo.

¿Qué fan de Abba no sueña con vestirse como en los años 70 y acudir a un último concierto del grupo para cantar "Chiquitita" o "Mama Mía"? Treinta años después de que la exitosa banda sueca se separara el grupo podría reunirse de nuevo.

Pese a que sus componentes siempre negaron la posibilidad de reagruparse después de la ruptura, las últimas declaraciones de dos de sus integrantes -Benny Andersson y Bjorn Ulvaeus- en el diario británico The Times han proyectado un pequeño rayo de esperanza para todos los seguidores de Abba.

Cuando se les preguntó sobre la posibilidad de hacer un último espectáculo que pudiera retransmitirse a nivel mundial, Andersson respondió, "sí, ¿por qué no?".

Andersson aseguró, sin embargo, que no sabía si las chicas del grupo seguían cantando y que "de hecho, no sería una mala idea" hacer un concierto juntos. Incluso, Ulvaeus propuso, "podríamos cantar The Way Old Folks Do", haciendo referencia a una de las canciones de su disco Super Trouper y que quiere decir algo así como "a la manera de los ancianos" .

Las declaraciones de los chicos de Abba no han dejado indiferente a nadie, sobre todo porque en el pasado siempre habían contestado negativa y rotundamente frente a esta posibilidad.

"Nunca apareceremos en los escenarios otra vez. No hay motivación para reagruparse. El dinero no es un factor y nos gustaría que la gente nos recordara como lo que fuimos: jóvenes, exuberantes, llenos de energía y con ambición", explicó Ulvaeus hace dos años.

Aunque algunos creen que las declaraciones de Andersson van más dirigidas a hacer publicidad y promoción, Mark Beaumont -periodista especializado en música- le dijo a la BBC: "No me sorprendería para nada que se reunieran. La gran mayoría del público lo pide tras el musical y la película de Mama Mía. Abba nunca había estado tan presente".
El fenómeno Abba
Benny Andersson y Ann-Frid Lyngstad durante la ceremonia de ingreso al Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll

Los hombres del grupo Abba no descartaron un regreso a los escenarios.

La posibilidad de una vuelta a los escenarios está en el aire pero los más fieles seguidores del grupo siempre han pensado que hay demasiadas barreras para que la banda vuelva a tocar junta. Entre ellas el estilo de vida de reclusión que lleva Agnetha Faltskog, la cantante rubia de Abba.

El cuarteto estaba compuesto por las dos parejas sentimentales que formaban Ann-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad con Benny Andersson y Agnetha Faltskog con Bjorn Ulvaeus.

Abba se catapultó a la fama después de ganar el Festival de Eurovisión en 1974 con el tema "Waterloo". Tras una década llena de éxitos profesionales el grupo se disolvió debido a la ruptura de ambos matrimonios.

Vendieron 370 millones de discos y dejaron temas que han dado la vuelta al mundo como "Dancing Queen", "Take a chance on me" o "Money, Money, Money".

Actualmente, "Frida" está casada con un príncipe alemán y vive en los Alpes Suizos. Según apunta el diario inglés, estaría relativamente de acuerdo con volver a reunir al grupo.

Por su parte, Ulvaeus y Andersson están promocionando su último musical "Kristina", que se estrenará en Londres el próximo 14 de abril.

Y mientras se disipan las dudas de un posible regreso a los escenarios, los dejamos con una muestra del trabajo de Abba.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/cultura_sociedad/2010/03/100326_abba_reencuentro_reunion_grupo.shtml
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