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Abba in the seventies: Coming back on stage as holograms
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The legendary Swedish pop group Abba (“Dancing Queen”) presented details about their comeback at a worldwide »Abba event«.
The band will release a new album 40 years after the last LP "The Visitors".
A pre-release single, "I Still Have Faith In You," was played at the beginning of the event.
There will also be a show in London that will feature a digital version of Abba from 1979 on stage.
The plans for a hologram show were announced for the first time in 2016.
Instead of the original plans to go on tour with it, it was decided to build a separate arena in the East End of the British capital, in which the show should run permanently.
22 songs, one and a half hours long - including two of the new songs.
A website with the title "Abba Voyage" had been set up with a countdown - at the end of which simultaneous press conferences began in Berlin, London, Stockholm, New York, Sydney and Tokyo.
At the event in London Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson discussed the band's plans.
Abba’s new music had been speculated for years, but its release was repeatedly postponed.
Fans of the Swedish band, which split up in 1982, hoped that Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad would even release a full album almost 40 years after their split.
Your hopes will be fulfilled on November 5th, when the work is due to appear.
"There's the old saying in the music industry: never let more than 40 years pass between two albums," joked Ulvaeus.
Abba have also prepared a Christmas song.
feb / dpa