All four of them in the studio, and two new songs already!
This is how a week should end.
The first song, set to be released in December is "“I Still Have Faith in You”…but I’m betting we’ll get to hear some(or even all) of it long before then.
Grandchildren need college funds? 
I am an ABBA fan but am not over excited about this. Apart from the lyrics and music they traded a lot on the girls looks, sparkly dress and voices. The voices and sparkly dress will be difficult to replicate. I loved the visit to the ABBA Museum in Stockholm but sometimes I think it is better to sit back.
What did surprise me - which I learned at the museum- was that their success was not welcolmed universally in Sweden.
Abba is hugely popular in Australia, and I think all their hits still stand up today, they’re outstanding works. Bjorn and Benny have continued to produce music over the years that remains high quality, so I think that at the least they’ll make something worth listening to. I know Agnetha was still producing her own music sporadically too, not sure about Frida, so I am hopeful.
For some reason, I’d thought one of them had died. Guess I was wrong.
I have a bunch of their albums on vinyl and I still enjoy them. I’ll be curious to see what ABBA 2.0 will be like - hope they don’t let me down. 
…in pog form.
I have four vinyl records of “Arrival”. (the one in the helicopter). Heaven only knows where they all came from.
You’re forgetting about Mamma Mia. Those guys need money like I need a hair brush (spoiler: I don’t). I, for one, am excited about the idea, but of course it remains to be seen if the music has changed and how good it still is.
ABBA was a great musical group, and I am excited to hear the news.
Saturday morning 5 am … my husband who has gotten up for the day, comes back upstairs, turns on hall light and announced to me “ABBA” is back!
I read it the night before and did not have any urge to wake him at 11 pm to say the same thing. :smack:
They are calling it an “avatar tour”, which means the new material (and some of the old material, no doubt) will be performed on video by digital reconstructions of how they looked at the time they broke up.
I guess it’s worth a try. I wouldn’t really look forward to seeing their 70-something old selves performing directly. I’m a big fan, but I’ve seen recordings of their live performances and they didn’t exactly kill it on stage even in their heyday.
I assume the voices are holding up, or they wouldn’t be bothering.
ABBA is back… to being ABBA?
'cause it’s a palindrome…
Right…but can you hear the drums?
Wow! Everything bland is new again!
“You should have stayed retired!” shout the members of Björn Again as they launch a sparkly, glittery assault on ABBA headquarters, determined to remain the primary purveyors of “Waterloo” and other such hits.
Bumped.
PBS will show the documentary ABBA Forever: A Celebration on Aug. 24. Check local listings: ABBA Forever A Celebration Preview - YouTube
Could you elaborate on this statement please?
I posted that a year ago so good luck with my memory! 
There was something called the Music Movement (I think) in Sweden that wanted more attention (and in the end, money) to go to other musicians apart from ABBA. They were quite vocal and significant. The Museum doesn’t attempt to distrspect the Movement, it just relates it.
That aside the Museum was very good- the usual gift shop with Tee Shirts etc but you could browse all the history of the group, get up and do ABBA karaoke (I resisted the urge) and have your picture taken in the helicopter from the cover of the Arrival album (a smaller version).
I liked their stuff back in the 1970s, but not enough to want to go see them in concert or anything.
So the only thing that’s relevant to me is whether their new songs are something I’d want to listen to now. And given the overall track record of bands getting back together after many years have passed and recording new material, my expectations are extremely low.