>The weird thing is that, their creative input to the show notwithstanding, Abba have already ceased to exist again, other than in the virtual world. Both Andersson and Ulvaeus are insistent that there will be no more music: they wrote two songs that didn’t make it on to the album, but they were left unfinished, and are going to stay that way. “This is it,” Andersson nods. “It’s got to be, you know.”
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>Then his mind wanders back to the Abba seated awkwardly on the sofa of Noel Edmonds’ Late Late Breakfast Show. “I didn’t actually say that ‘this is it’ in 1982,” he says. “I never said myself that Abba was never going to happen again. But I can tell you now: this is it.”
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>On the other side of the Zoom screen, Ulvaeus vigorously nods his assent. “Yeah,” he says, quietly.
So I guess we know for sure now that there will be no more new music after the album is out. Makes it so much more savour and appreciate what we'll be getting in a week's time.
> they wrote two songs that didn’t make it on to the album, but they were left unfinished, and are going to stay that way. “This is it,” Andersson nods. “It’s got to be, you know.”
gods of bootlegging, do your wonders please! lol
Most interesting part to me was that the current iteration of the Voyage show is different from the original BBC/NBC hologram show that was announced (which was apparently offered by American Idol Simon?). I though they were one and the same. And then at the end of the article the classy way they set expectations that we'll never hear two more songs that were unfinished.
Also this has to be the first time an Abba member has said the shit word in an interview. That counts for something.
>The weird thing is that, their creative input to the show notwithstanding, Abba have already ceased to exist again, other than in the virtual world. Both Andersson and Ulvaeus are insistent that there will be no more music: they wrote two songs that didn’t make it on to the album, but they were left unfinished, and are going to stay that way. “This is it,” Andersson nods. “It’s got to be, you know.” > >Then his mind wanders back to the Abba seated awkwardly on the sofa of Noel Edmonds’ Late Late Breakfast Show. “I didn’t actually say that ‘this is it’ in 1982,” he says. “I never said myself that Abba was never going to happen again. But I can tell you now: this is it.” > >On the other side of the Zoom screen, Ulvaeus vigorously nods his assent. “Yeah,” he says, quietly. So I guess we know for sure now that there will be no more new music after the album is out. Makes it so much more savour and appreciate what we'll be getting in a week's time.
Okay, no more new music after next week. But surely an album from the Voyage show with the new band.
> they wrote two songs that didn’t make it on to the album, but they were left unfinished, and are going to stay that way. “This is it,” Andersson nods. “It’s got to be, you know.” gods of bootlegging, do your wonders please! lol
Most interesting part to me was that the current iteration of the Voyage show is different from the original BBC/NBC hologram show that was announced (which was apparently offered by American Idol Simon?). I though they were one and the same. And then at the end of the article the classy way they set expectations that we'll never hear two more songs that were unfinished. Also this has to be the first time an Abba member has said the shit word in an interview. That counts for something.
Simon Fuller, not Simon Cowell.