With recent media reports about the former ABBA members warming to the idea of a possible one-off reunion, I shared my thoughts on the topic in an interview on The World Today on Friday March 26, 2010.
Thanks to the exposure of some classic but lesser-known ballads from the final ABBA years incorporated into Mamma Mia! (e.g., Slipping Through My Fingers and When All Is Said And Done), the greater public is more attuned to the post-exuberant ABBA style; a world away from the effervescence of the early years.
But the songs never lost their ability to move and endear. These are songs of powerful emotional conviction. It’s quite achievable for the group to join forces in a low-key evening, singing around the piano, torch-song style. The trademark wall-of-sound is immortalised in digital stereo, and the tribute bands are fulfilling the party crowd’s craving for kitsch. Now’s the time to relax and proudly revisit those personal milestone songs that frequented the last glorious years … and for the group to reinvent them in their own special way.
