Nearly four decades after disbanding and vowing never to get back together, Swedish superstars ABBA on Thursday announced a musical comeback with a new album and a London show featuring their performances captured by digital avatars.
ABBA notched up over 400 million album sales over 50 years despite parting ways in 1982 and resolutely resisting all offers to work together again -- until now.
The pop maestros had a string of hits in the 1970s and early 1980s after winning Eurovision in 1974 with "Waterloo".
After the video announcement, both men appeared in person, dressed in black, for a presentation of the forthcoming album.
"It's been 40 years, or 39, it was like no time had passed. It was quite amazing," he said.
The pair looked relaxed and described their reunion as very friendly.
"It's the most fun thing you can do: to write songs," he added.
The album will come out on November 5, the musicians said, with the show expected in May 2022.
British radio presenter Zoe Ball, hosting the interview, said: "This is huge: yes ABBA are back together officially."
The presentation came after the group -- Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 75, Agnetha Faltskog, 71, Ulvaeus, 76, and Andersson, 74 -- announced on Twitter last week: "Thank you for waiting, the journey is about to begin."
Two new songs -- "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down" -- were played in London Thursday, featuring the band's characteristic sound.
"We're not competing with (Canadian rapper) Drake and all those other guys," said Andersson.
The musicians also described the process of being transformed into digital avatars using hologram technology for a new show set to launch in London next year.
"We looked ridiculous," said Andersson.
The show is "technically immensely complicated, the screen, the sound, all the lights", he added.
The group broke up in 1982 by which time both of the quartet's married couples were divorced.
"There is simply no motivation to regroup. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were," Ulvaeus said in a 2008 interview.
"They're very independently wealthy so I don't think it's because of the money," Swedish Abba expert and author of several books on the group Carl Magnus Palm said of their comeback in a comment to AFP.
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