This comes as no surprise, really. The group once turned down an insane offer of $1 billion to do 100 concerts.
They continue to make lots of cash from their records and DVDs. Plus, Benny & Bjorn are making a mint from Mamma Mia and their other musicals. Benny even said that Mamma Mia has made them more money than their records (they’ve sold over 350 million over the past 30 years, though the CNN story says 100 million. On one of their DVDs is a presentation of an award for 300 million).
Although I was never able to see them live (they came as cloase as Atlanta in 1979), I agree with their decision not to tour. I think a VH1 Storytellers or MTV Unplugged would be interesting, though.
I had a dream once that I was in that video for Knowing Me, Knowing You where the chorus is set to shots of the band members’ profiles and I climbed up one of the blonde’s nostrils while I sang along.
Not a surprise. Agnetha, for one, has been adamant about not reuniting for decades. I don’t really blame the girls especially…there was a lot of bad feeling and liverchewing bitterness toward the end.
On EVE Radio one night, they seemed to be going for what I am assuming is the current European dance sound. Every single song sounded exactly like Abba, just with modern synthesizers and mixing. I couldn’t decide whether Abba should feel cheated or proud to have been chosen as the premiere dance sound.
