ABBA return after 35 yrs

n this file photo taken on 6 April, 1974, Swedish band representing Sweden with the song Waterloo (from L to R, up) Björn Ulvaeus, music producer, writer and manager Stig Anderson, Swedish record producer, composer Sven-Olof Walldoff and Benny Andersson, (from L to R, down) Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida) and Agnetha Fältskog, hold the trophy as they celebrate on stage after winning the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 Grand Final in Brighton

"Mamma Mia! Here we tend to go again": Sweden's legendary ballroom cluster ABBA proclaimed on weekday that they need reunited to record 2 new songs, thirty five years when their last single.

"We all four felt that, when some thirty five years, it may well be fun to affix forces once more and come in the studio. So we did," the cluster aforementioned in a very statement when perennial comments that they might ne'er reunite.

They aforementioned they'd recorded 2 new songs, one titled "I Still Have religion In You", and another unidentified track.

The quartet split in 1982 when dominating the ballroom scene for quite a decade with hits like "Waterloo", "Dancing Queen", "Mamma Mia" and "Super Trouper".

"It was like time had stood still which we tend to solely had been away on a brief vacation. an especially joyful experience!" members Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson supplemental.

The group, World Health Organization sold-out quite four hundred million albums, haven't sung along on stage since 1986.

• 'Come of age' -

But now, processed avatars square measure to perform "I Still Have religion In You" in a very TV special made by NBC and therefore the BBC to be broadcast in Dec, the cluster aforementioned.

"We have come back older, however the song is new. And it feels smart."

They aforementioned the "exciting ABBA avatar tour project had AN sudden consequence".

Bjorn, 73, was married to Agnetha, 68, and Benny, 71, was married to Anni-Frid, 72.

The cluster dominated the Seventies ballroom scene with their glitzy costumes, kitsch dance routines and catchy melodies.

They 1st found world fame when winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with "Waterloo".

While they need appeared publically along on rare occasions, they need ne'er reunited to perform as a gaggle, and have vowed that will not ever happen.

"There is just no motivation to regroup. cash isn't an element {and we tend to|and that we} would really like folks to recollect United States as we were," Ulvaeus aforementioned in a very 2008 interview.

Contacted by alpha foetoprotein, he wasn't at once obtainable for touch upon the newest announcement.

• 'The same terrific chemistry'-

The group's manager Gorel Hanser told TT news organisation that hearing them record the 2 new songs was "just like within the ABBA days".

"It was a similar terrific chemistry. it absolutely was as if time had stood still," Hanser aforementioned.

"Everyone got into their role and American ginseng, and American ginseng and American ginseng," she aforementioned adding the band wasn't about to tour along in reality.

Their quality has continued to grow over the years, with the 1999 hit musical "Mamma Mia" and therefore the 2008 film of a similar name star Streep transferral their music to an entire new generation of fans.

And ABBA's music featured conspicuously in 2 cult Australian films, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and "Muriel's Wedding", each free in 1994.

In 2013, the world's 1st depository dedicated to ABBA is ready opened in capital of Sweden, giving guests an opportunity to urge up shut and private with the Seventies foursome with somewhat facilitate from fashionable technology.