The story of ABBA

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They're back … But did they ever really go away? This is the story of ABBA.

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00:00It's great to be back after 40 years of doing, well, not nothing.

00:30It all started with us being two couples who were going on vacations and singing together

00:52but not having the idea to form a group.

01:22It's great to be back after 40 years of doing, well, not nothing.

01:29It's great to be back after 40 years of doing, well, not nothing.

01:52We thought that was great fun to dress up like that.

01:57Music was at the heart of everything.

02:00We took that very seriously, making all the music.

02:05But the rest of the circus around us, you know, we just took tongue in cheek.

02:11And so it was like a sport to look more outrageous than the other contemporary groups around us.

02:20Friday night and the lights are low.

02:25Looking out for a place to go.

02:30We're the city, the right music.

02:32Getting in between.

02:34You've come to look for a place.

02:37I found myself thinking, gosh, I really do miss those days.

02:40I miss getting up with the four of us and all the razzmatazz, the music and the dancing.

02:46You're crazy.

02:47No.

02:49But fond memories.

02:50Very fond memories, yes.

03:20So who is your dad?

03:23I don't know.

03:25Why they should listen to ABBA?

03:27You can relate to ABBA.

03:28ABBA will literally erase your mind for a minute.

03:32When you're feeling down or feeling anxious or feeling anything, you can literally put on any ABBA track

03:38and forget all of your troubles for about three minutes.

03:50Slipping through my fingers all the time.

03:58A lot of the pop from each era kind of gets outdated as it goes.

04:01It's by design.

04:02But there's stuff, the complexity of the arrangements and the production really kind of holds up even to this day.

04:09So to see that people are still getting into them, they've got this whole thing happening on TikTok

04:14and that the new generations are sort of understanding it and relating to it is really cool.

04:26Thank you TikTok for the two million followers we have.

04:29And let's go for three.

04:31Of more. We want more.

04:33More.

04:44Don't shut me down.

04:52There is something irresistible in this.

04:54Being able to replicate yourself in zeros and ones and on huge screens with 3,000 people in the audience.

05:05It's going to be something spectacular.

05:08I still have faith in you.

05:14And I will say.

05:18The first song, I still have faith in you.

05:22I knew when Benny played the melody, I just knew it had to be about us.

05:38You

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