BJORN ULVAEUS says Abba won’t ever play Glastonbury.
The ‘Dancing Queen’ hitmakers stunned followers final April, once they introduced they’d been within the studio for the primary time since in 37 years and have been set to launch new tracks ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ – their first new music since 1982.
Bjorn has promised followers can count on to listen to ”at the least one” of them subsequent 12 months and likewise mentioned whether or not they would carry out on the world well-known music pageant.
Asked if he and his bandmates – Agnetha Faltskog, BENNY ANDERSSON and Frida Lyngstad – would take into account Glastonbury, he insisted: ”Uh, no. It’s a straight no.”
The 74-year-old ‘Super Trouper’ hitmaker admitted that it could take an excessive amount of to get the band on stage as a result of ”one present can be the identical as doing an entire 12 months” of touring.
Speaking to Nicki Chapman, who was stepping for Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2’s ‘The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show’ on Friday (04.10.19), Bjorn mentioned: ”We recorded some new songs and you’ll in all probability hear them subsequent 12 months, at the least one in every of them.
”But that’s fairly a distinct factor from going by way of the trouble of rehearsing.
”Just one present can be the identical as doing an entire 12 months of excursions.
”But that isn’t what we want.
”If you’re taking 10 years out of our lives.”
The Swedish superstars – who shot to fame after successful ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’ in 1974 – will nevertheless be giving followers the possibility to see their greatest hits and new songs carried out on their upcoming digital tour by computer-generated ‘Abbatars’.
The ‘Waterloo’ group went their separate methods in 1982 on the top of their profession, and through their ultimate years Bjorn, 74, divorced bandmate Agnetha, 69, while Benny, 72, and Frida, 73, break up up, too.
And Bjorn just lately admitted that their reunion is proof of ”two former married {couples} getting alongside very effectively”.
However, he insisted that he nonetheless believes they’d have disbanded whether or not they have been nonetheless in {couples} or not.
He mentioned: ”We may by no means have simply gone on with ABBA having one hit each 5 years or so. No! It was by no means within the playing cards.”
Bjorn has additionally forged doubt on the band releasing a full album of recent materials until there’s a ”actually good purpose”.
He mentioned beforehand: ”It’s good to have a purpose to do what you do and this avatar tour is a purpose to give you one thing.
”Doing one other album is like doing ‘Mamma Mia 3’, what’s the level until there’s a good purpose, good script, good atmosphere? It is such a joyful expertise, so that could be a purpose to do it.”
