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<p>Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad at the third Abba Voyage anniversary (Abba Voyage/PA)</p>

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Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad reunite for third Abba Voyage anniversary

The Swedish musicians were married until divorcing a year before the influential pop group split in 1982

Left to right, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson (Ian West/PA)

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Public reunion of Abba members last month ‘might be the last occasion’

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Benny Andersson received the Royal Vasa Order (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

celebrity

‘Outstanding’ Abba members receive knighthoods from Sweden’s King

Abba Voyage

celebrity

Abba: Sweden’s most successful international four-piece

Abba Voyage

world

Abba stars rule out Eurovision reunion in Sweden on 50th anniversary of win

Tom Dunne: Boxsets can be brilliant but expensive items to collect

Triumph or Abba-ration? What the critics are saying about Voyage virtual concert

Triumph or Abba-ration? What the critics are saying about Voyage virtual concert

The concert featured four 3D digital versions of the group’s younger selves singing and dancing to some 20 of their hits

Fri, 27 May, 2022

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Abba reunite in London for first time since 1982 for Voyage concert

All four members of Abba have reunited in London for the first time since 1982 for the opening night of their Voyage live show.

Thu, 26 May, 2022

Ivor Novello Awards 2021

Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus: Seeing people happy due to your writing is ultimate reward

Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus has said that seeing people “happy and moved” by something you have written is the “ultimate reward”.

Tue, 25 Jan, 2022

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Bjorn Ulvaeus seeks source of Abba magic with radio show

Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus is launching a radio show aimed at working out why songs such as Mamma Mia and Dancing Queen have stayed stuck in the heads of so much of the world for so many decades.

Mon, 24 Jan, 2022

Abba Voyage

How Björn's roadtrip to Kilkenny inspired new Abba song

The new track was inspired by a family trip to Ireland in the 90s

Mon, 08 Nov, 2021

Abba Voyage

Abba's new album may be their last recording

While the digital show at a purpose-built ABBA Arena in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park could run and run, Abba themselves - all now in their 70s - may call it a day.

Fri, 05 Nov, 2021

Music - ABBA - European & Australian Tour - Gothenburg, Sweden

From Eurovision to the West End: Key events from Abba’s history

Abba have released Voyage, their first studio album in nearly 40 years.

Fri, 05 Nov, 2021

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Abba decides to Give it, Give it, Give its fans another album

Forty years after their last album the Swedish pop sensation will release a new album and have also announced a new concert experience in London beginning in May 2022

Fri, 03 Sep, 2021

New Abba songs reviewed: a perky, moving return to pop’s highest peaks

New Abba songs reviewed: a perky, moving return to pop’s highest peaks

It is so powerful to hear Agnetha and Anni-Frid singing I Still Have Faith In You together after 40 years — and the slinky, cheeky Don’t Shut Me Down is even better

Fri, 03 Sep, 2021

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Here they go again: Abba join TikTok amid reports of new project

Swedish pop veterans Abba are joining video-sharing app TikTok. The band – Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – have been one of the most searched for groups on the platform, TikTok said.

Mon, 30 Aug, 2021

Saturday TV Tips: Chris O'Dowd tackles doping deception in The Program and Tour de France stage one gets underway

Saturday TV Tips: Chris O'Dowd tackles doping deception in The Program and Tour de France stage one gets underway

— Plus Cork's Fiona Shaw stars in creepy thriller Kindred

Sat, 26 Jun, 2021

Escapism or disengagement? - We can’t sing Abba songs all of the time

Escapism or disengagement? - We can’t sing Abba songs all of the time

The Scot Alexander Graham Bell, the great-grandfather of Facebook and Snapchat, is remembered in the term used to measure volume — decibel.

Wed, 29 Aug, 2018

WATCH: Cher singing Abba's Fernando will make you stupidly excited for the Mamma Mia sequel

WATCH: Cher singing Abba's Fernando will make you stupidly excited for the Mamma Mia sequel

"There was something in the air that night..."

Mon, 16 Jul, 2018

Abba reunite for opening of restaurant-entertainment venture Mamma Mia! The Party in Stockholm

Abba reunite for opening of restaurant-entertainment venture Mamma Mia! The Party in Stockholm

The four former members of Swedish band Abba, whose catchy tunes still have fans dancing around the world decades after their release, reunited — albeit very briefly — for the opening of a restaurant-entertainment venture in Stockholm.

Fri, 22 Jan, 2016

Life comes full Circle for ABBA co-creator Benny Andresson

Life comes full Circle for ABBA co-creator Benny Andresson

It’s 41 years since the Swedish band won Eurovision with ’Waterloo’, but, at 68, co-writer Andersson is still diversifying. The composer of musicals Chess and Mamma Mia has just produced a teen horro with his son, writes Helen Barlow

Wed, 13 May, 2015

Number-one songs that never were

Number-one songs that never were

As Ed Power ponders a possible digital backlash, he talks to John Creedon about classic songs that never made it to the top of the charts

Fri, 27 Feb, 2015