Here they go again! Disco group ABBA reunites for two more songs more than 35 years after splitting
The quartet, which sold more than 400 million albums, called the new recording session ‘an extremely joyful experience’
Mamma Mia - here they go again! Members of Sweden’s legendary disco group ABBA announced on Friday that they have reunited to record two new songs, more than three decades after their last single, sparking joy and surprise among fans.
“We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did,” the group said in a statement after repeatedly vowing they would never reunite.
The new songs, I Still Have Faith in You and Don’t Shut Me Down, were recorded last summer, the band’s manager, Gorel Hanser, told TT news agency.
“It was like time had stood still and that we only had been away on a short holiday. An extremely joyful experience!” members Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson added.
The quartet, who have sold more than 400 million albums, split up in 1982 after dominating the disco scene for more than a decade with hits like Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia and Super Trouper. They have not sung together publicly since 1986.
“I think it’s going to sound pretty much like their last songs from 1982, with quite a mild tempo, not like Voulez-Vous or Gimme Gimme Gimme,” Carl Magnus Palm, who has written several books about the group, said.
“Frida’s and Agnetha’s voices are the same, so it won’t be a huge difference,” he said.