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Abba beams back - 8th September 2021 View All

Mamma Mia, here we go again with Abba lovers over the moon at the news of a new album release and show in London.

The iconic Swedish quartet, who came to prominence as 1974 Eurovision champions, singing Waterloo, haven't produced music in four decades.

The new studio album, boasting 10 tracks and titled Voyage, has Stockholm's ABBA museum floor manager, Mansa Faddaoui, almost delirious.

Mansa Faddaoui: "Where should I start? It feels magical, it feels like a dream, it feels like we've been waiting for this for a long time. We [ABBA the museum] opened in 2013 and about 2018 we heard about some new songs, today I heard two of them - how crazy is that?"

Bjorn and Benny, the music maestros behind the hits and 400 million album sales, broke the news in London. Voyage hits stores from November 5th, 2021 and after a four decade long break, the band makes a huge comeback with a futuristic London show in 2022, which'll be no ordinary show. Given that band members Anni-Frid, Agnetha, Benny and Bjorn are septuagenarians, going through the demands of live tours was off the table.

Holographic projections of the pop icons, created by donning technology wired suits to make their avatars, will take the stage.

Whether fans who remember the quartet in their heyday or have discovered them through their hits in films such as Mamma Mia and Muriel's Wedding - holographic or in the flesh - everyone's thrilled.

Hakan: "I'm knocked out! ABBA is back! ABBA is back! ABBA are avatars!"

Johanna Pihl: "I think there is enormous shock in my entire body just looking at the video when it started to roll out in its entirety of this global event and the fantastic sensation of being all together and now we're finally able to be all together in some sort of way after all this. "

Scheduled for May 2022, the London show's premiere has fans raring to go.

Hakan: "I absolutely have to go to London to watch this [the ABBA show]. Amazing good"

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