NEWS published on 11 Nov 2013

ABBA to reunite in 2014?

A member of ABBA says the band could re-form next year, 40 years on since Waterloo won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974.

Agnetha Fältskog told German press (Welt am Sonntag), "Sure, we do think about it."

The Swedish quartet – one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music – jettisoned to fame after winning the 19th Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, then known as the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson.

Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson went on to sell more than 380 million albums and singles worldwide, making them one of the best selling music groups of all time. 

"There are plans about doing something for that anniversary, but I still don’t know what will come out of it in the end. On the other hand, I do not want to know about it precisely in this very moment," the 63-year-old pop icon explained. “If such an event is being planned and I knew all the details in advance, then I would be thinking about it all the time. That would take way too much energy. (I would prefer) not thinking about it – just doing it."

The Eurovision Song Contest will take place at the B&W Hallerne on Refshaleøen 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark on 6, 8 and 10 May.

Twelve countries will participate in the 2013 Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) at the end of this month (30/11) at the National Palace of Arts Ukraine in Kyiv, hosted by EBU Member the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)