In the event you had discovered the best way to get a hologram to do your job, would you ever hassle going to work once more?
In all probability the one individuals on the planet who can reply that query with any authority are Abba, who’ve performed to greater than 1,000,000 individuals in London prior to now 12 months with out even having to go away the home.
It ought to maybe be no shock then, that the group have dominated out returning to the Eurovision contest for a last time when it’s held in Sweden subsequent 12 months.
Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, the band’s primary songwriters, stated they might not reunite with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad to mark 50 years since they received the 1974 contest with Waterloo.
There had been more and more feverish hypothesis that the band would reform and even perhaps compete as Sweden’s entry, regardless of having not performed collectively since showing on Noel Edmonds’ The Late Late Breakfast Present on the BBC in 1982.
In a recording for the BBC’s Newsnight programme on Thursday night, Andersson stated there was “no manner” the group was going to reunite and even stroll on stage collectively throughout Eurovision.
“I don’t wish to,” he stated. “And if I don’t wish to, the others received’t.
“It’s the identical for all 4 of us. Somebody says no – it’s a no.”
Ulvaeus, who additionally stated it was a no from him, added: “We are able to rejoice 50 years of Abba with out us being on stage.”
Their feedback do nonetheless go away the door open to an look from the quartet’s “Abbatars” – digital variations of themselves, that are at the moment taking part in to offered out crowds each night time in London as a part of Abba Voyage.
Greater than 1,000,000 individuals have been to see the multimedia extravaganza because it opened final June in a purpose-built area within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, many paying over £100 a ticket.
Abba, who’ve offered greater than 400m albums and singles, had been the primary Swedes to clinch a Eurovision victory. This 12 months Loreen sang Sweden’s seventh profitable music, Tattoo, having already triumphed with Euphoria in 2012.
Abba received Eurovision once more in 2005 with Waterloo at a particular version of the competition to mark its fiftieth anniversary, however didn’t play dwell. For his or her final ever efficiency collectively on Edmonds’ present greater than 40 years in the past, they carried out Thank You for the Music.
Whereas they had been in killjoy mode for his or her followers, Ulvaeus and Andersson additionally poured chilly water on rumours {that a} third version of the hit musical Mamma Mia! was within the works.
“Folks wish to do it,” Andersson stated. “Common [Music Group] desires to do it. “[The Mamma Mia! producer] Judy Craymer desires to do it.”
However he insisted that with out adjustments to the script and setting – a fictional Greek island – “there’s not going to be a subsequent Mamma Mia! movie. That’s simply wishful pondering.”
