ANDY JONES
The announcement of a new ABBA tour – albeit one with just on-stage digital avatars – was greeted with unabashed joy among the band’s huge fanbase. They (and we) had given up on the chance of ever seeing the quartet together again on stage so, four decades after they last played live, even holographic recreations will do. This virtual tour has now led to an even greater event in the ABBA-sphere, as the band itself revealed: “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…”
This, as you know by now, meant that Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Anni-Frid recorded two completely new ABBA songs and their huge global fanbase, already in ecstasy over the avatar tour, is now in a state of extreme anticipation. What are the songs like? How are the voices holding up? Could the new tracks possibly be as good as the classics? Will they be happy or sad songs? Did they all get on?