Waterloo50th
En un correo electrónico a TT, Görel Hanser, escribe:
"Agnetha, Frida, Björn y Benny han decidido conjuntamente rechazar todas las solicitudes relacionadas con el aniversario".
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In an email to TT, Abbas' manager Görel Hanser writes: "Agnetha, Frida, Björn and Benny have jointly decided to decline all requests in connection with the anniversary".
The Abba members will also not be present during the gala evening at Cirkus
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I ett mejl till TT skriver Abbas manager Görel Hanser:
"Agnetha, Frida, Björn och Benny har gemensamt beslutat sig för att tacka nej till samtliga förfrågningar i samband med jubileet".
Abba-medlemmarna kommer inte heller att närvara under galakvällen på Cirkus
Abba nobbar SVT-hyllningen
När Abba hyllas på en direktsänd gala från Cirkus i Stockholm väljer huvudpersonerna själva att inte dyka upp. Det meddelar gruppens manager Görel Hanser i ett mejl till TT.
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Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad och Benny Andersson hyllas i SVT i april, men kommer inte att delta i firandet själva. Bild från London 2022.
Lördag den 6 april är det 50 år sedan Abba skrev musik- och tv-historia, när de vann Eurovision Song Contest med "Waterloo" 1974.
Det firas med en galakväll i SVT, som sänds från Cirkus inför publik. Den livesända tv-galan blir kulmen på en hel vecka där gruppen hyllas i SVT, men de medieskygga Abba-medlemmarna kommer inte delta i firandet själva.
I ett mejl till TT skriver Abbas manager Görel Hanser:
"Agnetha, Frida, Björn och Benny har gemensamt beslutat sig för att tacka nej till samtliga förfrågningar i samband med jubileet".
Abba-medlemmarna kommer inte heller att närvara under galakvällen på Cirkus, förklarar hon.
Abba hyllas i SVT under hela veckan fram till lördagen den 6 april. Under galan ska "några av Sveriges mest framstående artister" uppträda och framföra gruppens klassiska låtar. Samma kväll släpps även dokumentären "Sagan om Abba", som fokuserar på perioden mellan albumsläppen "Arrival" (1976) och "Super trouper" (1980).
50-årsjubileet firas även i Storbritannien, där bland andra BBC satsar på dokumentärer, konserter och radioprogram för att uppmärksamma gruppen.
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In a recording for the BBC's Newsnight programme on Thursday evening, Andersson said there was “no way” the group was going to reunite or even walk on stage together during Eurovision. “I don't want to,” he said. “And if I don't want to, the others won't. “It's the same for all four of us
may 25, 2023
It’s a no’: Abba rule out appearing at 50th anniversary of Eurovision win
Helen Pidd
If you had figured out how to get a hologram to do your job, would you ever bother going to work again?
Probably the only people in the world who can answer that question with any authority are Abba, who have played to more than a million people in London in the past year without even having to leave the house.
It should perhaps be no surprise then, that the group have ruled out returning to the Eurovision contest for a final time when it is held in Sweden next year.
Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, the band’s main songwriters, said they would not reunite with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad to mark 50 years since they won the 1974 contest with Waterloo.
There had been increasingly feverish speculation that the band would reform and perhaps even compete as Sweden’s entry, despite having not played together since appearing on Noel Edmonds’ The Late Late Breakfast Show on the BBC in 1982.
In a recording for the BBC’s Newsnight programme on Thursday evening, Andersson said there was “no way” the group was going to reunite or even walk on stage together during Eurovision.
“I don’t want to,” he said. “And if I don’t want to, the others won’t.
“It’s the same for all four of us. Someone says no – it’s a no.”
Ulvaeus, who also said it was a no from him, added: “We can celebrate 50 years of Abba without us being on stage.”
Their comments do, however, leave the door open to an appearance from the quartet’s “Abbatars” – digital versions of themselves, which are currently playing to sold-out crowds every night in London as part of Abba Voyage.
Björn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Benny Andersson arrive for the opening performance of Abba Voyage in May 2022. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
More than a million people have been to see the multimedia extravaganza since it opened last June in a purpose-built arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, many paying more than £100 a ticket.
Abba, who have sold more than 400m albums and singles, were the first Swedes to clinch a Eurovision victory. This year Loreen sang Sweden’s seventh winning song, Tattoo, having already triumphed with Euphoria in 2012.
Abba won Eurovision again in 2005 with Waterloo at a special edition of the contest to mark its 50th anniversary, but did not play live. For their last ever performance together on Edmonds’ show more than 40 years ago, they performed Thank You for the Music.
While they were in killjoy mode for their fans, Ulvaeus and Andersson also poured cold water on rumours that a third edition of the hit musical Mamma Mia! was in the works.
“People want to do it,” Andersson said. “Universal [Music Group] wants to do it. “[The Mamma Mia! producer] Judy Craymer wants to do it.”
But he insisted that without changes to the script and setting – a fictional Greek island – “there’s not going to be a next Mamma Mia! film. That’s just wishful thinking.”
