Abba Reunion !!!

[Golden AWe]

I can sing as high as Anna but I don't exactly look like her...

[Mr Grimsdale]

i don't know
with the right make up and a nice dress you could pass

[Panamark]

LOL. Well he does have the blonde nordic thing happening.

[Ally_Kat]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
I can sing as high as Anna but I don't exactly look like her...

Let's go Fernando. The rest of ABBA is calling.

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
I can sing as high as Anna but I don't exactly look like her...

Any guy with some sort of heavy metal/70's hard pedigree/background can...

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
Let's go Fernando. The rest of ABBA is calling.

And at this point I'm glad I'm not that good as a singer.

[Atomic_Rob]

Is is true that Abba were offered someting like a Billion $ to reform years ago? I might be wrong!

[Panamark]

Yup, I heard Bjorn actually say that in an interview. I believe Anna recorded that solo album which didnt set the world on fire, and also there was reportedly a stalker that came to light..

Looks like this reunion will be on hold forever again..

[Blacklisted]

This reunion tour is worse than the Van Hagar reunion tour.

I bet Motley Crue will sell more per show than these disco dancin' sluts!

I will see you there! pfffffft!!! NOT.

[lucky wilbury]

Originally posted by Atomic_Rob
Is is true that Abba were offered someting like a Billion $ to reform years ago? I might be wrong!

its true

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,5956,00.html

ABBA's Billion-Dollar Rejection

by Julie Keller
Feb 2, 2000, 5:35 PM PT

"Mamma Mia" is right.

In perhaps the largest rejection in history, '70s Swedish pop group ABBA has turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite after 17 years.

"It's a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn't for us," Benny Andersson, ex-leader of the four-member group, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet today.

The staggering offer came from an American-British consortium that reportedly wanted the group to reunite for 100 concerts and cash in on a recent revival of several of their hits. (Currently, the teen band A-Teens has covered "Mamma Mia" and "Gimme Gimme," and a musical based on several songs is a hit in London's West End.)

Anderson and bandmate Bjorn Ulvaeus both say the recent reincarnation of their music has been successful because the group never reunited.

"We have never made a comeback," Ulvaeus told the paper. "Almost everyone else has. I think there's a message in that."

The group--Andersson, Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog--was founded in 1966 by Andersson. They shot to fame after winning a Eurovision song contest in 1974, endured years of internal conflict and officially disbanded in 1982 following the release of their final album, The Visitors.

Thanks to the smash success of hits like "Dancing Queen," "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Money Money Money," ABBA was he most commercially successful pop group of the 1970s. Regardless, $1 billion is a lot of freaking money.

Even the Beatles, the biggest band ever, was only offered a paltry $30 million in the mid '70s to reunite (though they never did).

And successful as they inevitably are, the fleeting reunion tours of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers never break the billion-dollar mark.

The Eagles' 1995 Hell Freezes Over reunion tour raked in relatively measly $61 million, and the just-launched Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion--the group's first tour as a quartet since 1974--would have to sell lots of tickets (from $39 to $200 a pop) to be in ABBA's league .

[Blacklisted]

There is NO WAY Abba would gross more than a Billion on a reunion tour. I am sorry... Those investors have more than likely gone into insolvency at this point in time.

That is commercial suicide.

Have any bands grossed more than 1 billion on a world tour? Let alone a reunion tour.

[Nickdfresh]

I'm sure there were some "performance clauses" in the "billion dollar" contract.

[Blacklisted]

A 100 show tour though, they would to make over 10 million per show.

Better play some UUUGE venues and pack that place with thousands of disco freaks.

Just to make money off the royalities of their past hits.

[Panamark]

Get ready ???

[Panamark]

http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,12264226-7484,00.html