Mamma Mia! Abba’s back – from new music to a Voyage tour with VR ‘Abba-tars’, everything you need to know about the legendary pop band’s comeback after a 39-year hiatus
- Abba’s heyday was in the 70s, but its legacy lives on in the Mamma Mia! films starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Cher, Julie Walters and Amanda Seyfried
- Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid will appear as holograms similar to that of Tupac at Coachella 2012, brought to life by Simon Fuller of American Idol
It’s been almost four decades since Abba, the iconic pop group made up of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, last performed on stage or wowed the world with new music. Many of us weren’t even born when the group were at their peak, and yet the pure pop magic of Abba has been passed down from generation to ever-younger generation through blockbuster films Mamma Mia! The Movie in 2008 and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again in 2018, as well as the stage show, also called Mamma Mia.
But now, if we’re reading the signs correctly, the long silence from Abba is coming to an end – soon.
That’s right, Abba, the music makers that got superstars like Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Cher, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried and Christine Baranski to come together and release their inner dancing queens, are set to make a comeback with a smorgasbord of new music and even a virtual reality tour.
Abba took the world by storm by winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with their entry Waterloo, and went on to create a songbook that still garners newer and younger fans to this day. The foursome officially broke up in December 1982, and even though we thanked them for the music, diehard Abba-ficionados held out little hope of a reunion or new hits, especially after the group declined an offer of US$1 billion back in 2000 to reunite for a concert. Abba even told Billboard magazine in 2014: “You will never see us on stage again. We don’t need the money, for one thing.”
As of August 2021, the four members are each worth US$200-300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. So are they about to get even wealthier?
The last single ever recorded by Abba was Under Attack, marking the beginning of a 39-year silence and leaving us with nothing but well-played LPs and memories. Now Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid have heard our requests to Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! more Abba, and here’s what we know so far about their much-anticipated comeback.