“Can you hear the drums, Fernando?...”
Not sure about the women...but Andersson and Ulvaeus wrote all the ABBA songs, and made tons of money off royalties, including the Mamma Mia play and movie.
Agnetha Fältskog, after many years of not being in the public eye, released a new album called “A”. In the UK, the first single “When You Really Loved Someone”
Listen to it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Jdw9utrfU
And yes...I'm a 100% hetero guy (and always have been).
I may be old fashioned but I’ll take ABBA over The Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stone, Lady Gaga, Pink, Beyonce, U2, ...
They dressed funny but the women could sing beautifully.
Two of many crazy outfits:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IzNOPiBCntI/UNMbdE7KcSI/AAAAAAAAAC0/Pw2tKNVqh5Y/s1600/abba.jpg
Let me guess. They got a better offer not to reunite.
110% tax rate?
You have to give them credit for both common sense and good taste.
And while their music wasn’t particularly spectacular as music, there are a lot of superlative musicians out there who after retirement could found entire schools of music, that out of hundreds of students might produce a dozen who themselves are superlative, and a hundred who are noteworthy.
“We have never made a comeback,” Ulvaeus told the paper. “Almost everyone else has. I think there’s a message in that.”
Uhhhh yeah. You missed the boat and made a decision you are trying justify with some weird artistic relativism.
Really, you shouldn’t even be doing interviews.
Some people just don’t care about money on some fundamental level.
