Eurovision followers went wild as ABBA teased their return in a social media clip on Thursday.
They dominated the music scene all through the Seventies, however after simply 10 years – and two divorces – they known as it quits in 1983.
However since Eurovision 2024 kicked off, rumours that the band are set to reunite for a efficiency on the singing competitors have began to unfold, as they put together to mark 50 years since they gained with hit monitor Waterloo.
The band – made up of Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus – shared a clip to their TikTok web page coming out from behind a bush.
The sound enjoying over the video mentioned: ‘Okay guys we’re again, did you miss us? As a result of we missed you’
Eurovision followers went wild as ABBA teased their return in a social media clip on Thursday
Followers rushed to the remark part to share their pleasure, with one penning: ‘Omg if they seem at Eurovision I will completely explode’;
‘Cease they’re so iconic’; ‘We want ABBA at Eurovision’;
‘The most effective and most necessary comeback in historical past? We’re prepared’
It comes after ABBA thanked followers in a uncommon assertion because the band have fun the fiftieth anniversary of their Eurovision Tune Contest victory.
The enduring 70s pop group stay the present’s most well-known and profitable exports after they have been topped winners in April 1974 with their tune, Waterloo.
Reflecting on the milestone, the group issued a joint assertion as they expressed their gratitude for followers ‘steadfast loyalty and assist by means of the years’.
To mark the anniversary, a number of pianos throughout Europe will play a pre-recorded by Benny concurrently to make it sound as if he’s enjoying dwell.
Sharing an image of the foursome successful the accolade, they wrote: ‘It is barely dizzying and deeply humbling to suppose that hundreds of thousands of you who noticed us for the primary time within the Eurovision ultimate 1974 have handed our music on not solely to 1 era, however to a number of.
‘We see proof of that each time considered one of us visits Abba Voyage in London, and it is due to this we will have fun the fiftieth anniversary of that occasion within the data that our songs nonetheless resonate around the globe.’
They continued: ‘It is troublesome to understand that fifty years have passed by for the reason that 4 of us waited backstage for the verdicts of all of the juries round Europe on the Dome in Brighton.
‘So what have been out goals throughout these suspenseful moments or within the chaos within the aftermath of the victory we had secured with the smallest margin in Eurovision historical past?
‘4 completely different goals, little question, however no matter they have been, nevertheless grand, actuality has surpassed them, that is for certain.’
They dominated the music scene all through the Seventies, however after simply 10 years – and two divorces – they known as it quits in 1983
The band – made up of Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus – shared a clip to their TikTok web page coming out from behind a bush
Followers rushed to the remark part to share their pleasure, with one penning: ‘Omg if they seem at Eurovision I will completely explode’
The group went on to have an enormous repertoire of hits together with Dancing Queen (1976), Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (1979) and Tremendous Trouper (1976) to call a couple of.
Since their cut up their catalogue of music has impressed the Mamma Mia! movie franchise and theatre present, and extra lately the unbelievable ABBA Voyage.
The enduring hologram present has pumped £322million into the British economic system – with greater than 1,000,000 tickets purchased at as much as £181.50 every.
The gig 5 years within the making takes the viewers again to Abba’s Seventies and Eighties prime and permits followers to expertise them in live performance, regardless of their cut up again in December 1982.
Thanking followers for his or her continued assist they added: ‘A lot of you have been there from the very begin and have adopted us ever since – for over half a century!
‘Music you uncover and study to like whenever you develop up and even later in life has a means of staying with you eternally.
‘We share that have with you and to know that our music has turn into a relentless in your lives is a superb factor.’
They concluded: ‘All through the years we’ve got been blessed with the outpouring of affection from you, our followers.
‘We really feel it and we wish to know that hardly a day goes by once we’re not reminded of it. To say thanks for what you are giving us with out sounding trivial just isn’t straightforward and this isn’t a second of triviality.
Since their cut up in 1982 their catalogue of music has impressed the Mamma Mia! movie franchise and theatre present, and extra lately the unbelievable ABBA Voyage.
The prolonged assertion thanked followers for his or her continued assist they added: ‘A lot of you have been there from the very begin and have adopted us ever since – for over half a century!
‘It’s a glad and, on the identical time, solemn second and we will solely hope that you just perceive how deeply grateful we’re for a protracted, profitable profession and to your steadfast loyalty and assist by means of the years. Thanks!’
The foursome broke up in 1982, and while they got here collectively for a one-off event to mark the debut of ABBA Voyage in 2022, there hasn’t been a ‘correct’ reunion with all 4 on stage singing collectively once more.
Final yr, a spokesperson for the band Görel Hanser issued a ‘clear denial’ of a Eurovision reunion, saying there have been ‘no such plans’ and it was ‘undoubtedly wishful considering from followers.
Benny added: ‘I do not wish to. And if I do not wish to, the others will not. It is the identical for all 4 of us – somebody says, ‘no’ – it is a no.’
On Sunday, performers representing 26 international locations from throughout Europe and past take to the stage on the ultimate of the 68th Eurovision Tune Contest.
On Tuesday, the annual music competitors kicked off with its first of two semi finals within the Swedish metropolis of Malmo – with ten of the 15 acts performing voted by means of to Saturday’s finale by viewers.
The second semi ultimate on Thursday will additional slender the unique discipline of 37 competing nations to 26 for the extremely anticipated ultimate, the place frontrunners embrace Croatia’s Child Lasagna and Switzerland’s Nemo.
Eire’s entry additionally left viewers predicting the nation might win the competition after non-binary artist Bambie Thug, 31, from County Cork, delivered a sensational efficiency of their tune Doomsday Blue for the group on Tuesday.
The band pictured in 2022 arriving on the Abba Voyage live performance in London
It comes simply forward of a brand new movie about ABBA ‘s rise to world stardom, which options never-before-seen footage of tense encounters between the enduring Swedish band.
Documentary ABBA: In opposition to The Odds will inform the epic story of the band’s domination of the pop charts – in addition to the non-public relationships that led to its demise.
A brand new trailer of the upcoming documentary, which drops on BBC iPlayer on Could 4, consists of beforehand unseen clips of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
In a single clip, Benny and Bjorn are seen rehearsing on stage collectively earlier than all of the lights exit at which level they’re left trying involved.
Whereas one other hints at a number of the tensions felt throughout the group, as Agnetha is noticed trying irritated on stage as she seems to shout at considered one of her bandmates.
What made ABBA distinctive was not solely their beloved sound, however the reality the band was made up of two {couples}.
When the band fashioned, Agnetha and Bjorn have been already married whereas Benny and Anni-Frid have been courting.