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When darkness falls in the Abba Arena and
Skallgång
, an instrumental by Benny Andersson, resonates, the emotion is palpable.
Under the howls of the public, four Chinese shadows emerge from the ground and begin
The Visitors
, one of the last songs of the Swedish pop group Abba, before their separation in 1982. The text, which refers to Russian agents on a "visit" to a dissident resonates with the invasion of Ukraine and the entry of Sweden into NATO.
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In London, the avatars of Abba put on a breathtaking show
Under an extraordinary play of lights, reminiscent of hundreds of colored aquarium portholes, Björn Ulvaeus plays the guitar on the left, Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad sing in the middle, Benny is at the piano on the right.
They are very well distinguished.
The moment is surreal.
We came to see Abba in London but the four septuagenarians are elsewhere, probably quietly at home in Stockholm.
On stage, it is their avatars and their 1977 looks that dance, sing,…
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