Chords for Abba's Agnetha is back ... BBC Breakfast interview 10.5.2013

In 1982, _ Agneta walked away from the public eye.
Three decades later, she's decided to end her relative seclusion
to start recording once again.
I've been speaking to her _ about how she whistles at home instead of singing.
That's what she told me.
She talked about her marriage to Bjorn, of course,
and a very painful divorce, and whether we'll ever see Abba back together again.
_ _ _ Agneta, lovely to see you here on Breakfast.
Thank you very much.
Much has been said about how you didn't want the business anymore,
but here you are, _ sat talking to me.
So what's changed?
Well, some years have gone, and I have also done,
after Abba, I have done several solo records.
And was the voice OK?
_ To start with, it was a bit rusty.
I could feel _ _ _ something was not as it was.
So I had to take some lessons to remember how to breathe
and to use my voice in a good way. _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F]
The single is called When You Love Someone.
When You Really Love Someone.
[N] When You Really_
When You Really Loved Someone.
When You Really Loved Someone.
When You Really, Really Loved Someone.
It's a sad song. _
_ Yes, it is.
It often [A] is like that when I'm going to sing,
but there are also nice and, _ I mean, [C] more up-tempo songs
in this album, I must say.
Are you drawn to the melancholy?
Maybe, because I'm a composer myself,
and I'm a very _ romantic person,
and I [Ab] like sensitive [Gb] songs,
[D] and songs where you really can [F] tell a good story.
[A] Everyone thinks they know you.
Do you get that sense that people think they know your [G] story?
_ Yes, in a way, but [C] I'm not so [Ab] sure that it's the right story.
And I think I have [N] been described as a very _ mysterious _ _ secret,
you know, _ like_
Like a recluse.
Yes, yes.
_ _ And it's not like that at all.
Tell me more.
Tell me the real story then.
Yes, I think it has been like that,
because after the ABBA years, we were all very tired,
[D] and we just felt that we have to do something else now.
It gets_
It has been too much now.
_ And _ _ I felt very, very strong that I had to be for myself,
and just [G] relax and get in a good_
Try to get in a good [C] balance again,
because those were very hectic [Em] years. People everywhere
[C] _ Certains have [Em] expectations
And you need to act
[C] Were those very unhappy times?
Because people have [C] described you as being [Gb] depressed.
I think I was more _ like the black sheep, maybe,
that I was someone that you could blame on.
But we were actually very agreed about that we have to stop [B] now,
because we came to a point when it doesn't feel good anymore.
You used the word blame there.
You said that people blamed you.
Do you mean fans or are you talking about_?
No, I mean newspapers.
The newspapers.
Yes, I think it's very usual that you have someone to [Ab] blame on, maybe,
because people wanted us to go on,
and we were just too tired, all of us.
And I think that's understandable,
but it's not so nice to be the [B] one that they [Ab] pick on
and say it's because of her.
_ _ [Db] _ Nothing more to [Abm]
say
[Ab] _ _ _ No more [Db] ace to [Eb] play
The song The Winner Takes It All,
[Gb] that was written, of course, at a time of your break-up.
Your former partner is with you in the band.
Yeah.
And you're singing about the pain of divorce.
Yes, but it [Ab] was a challenge, really.
And, _
_ [Abm] you know, [Cm] that divorce was not going on from one day [Db] to another.
It was going on during a long [Eb]
time.
Was it difficult going on stage?
[Bb] People thinking of you as a happy-go-lucky, beautiful _ young lady,
and you had all of this going [N] on behind.
Yeah, that time was, of course, not so funny,
because we _ were_
I mean, our divorce and so on,
then when Frida and Benny divorced, we were very sad about them.
But to start with, it was not very nice,
but we did it anyway,
because we were all aware of that.
We have to do this now, this is our thing.
I'm fascinated about you and your singing.
You effectively stopped singing,
but I assume that at home you were singing.
Were you singing in the kitchen?
Were you singing with your children, your grandchildren?
_ Yes, I am.
I'm trying [F] to teach them to play piano and so on.
They like when I sing _ _ _ [N] children's songs with them and so on,
but I _ sing very, very rare at home.
I whistle more, _ _ you know.
Are you good at whistling?
I'm not good at it, but it's more often I whistle than [D] I sing.
Can I hear a little whistle?
No, please.
Now I need to hear you whistle. _
Mama!
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..in
[A] quite a [Bm] similar way
Do your grandchildren know about Abba?
We never talk about it, [A] you know.
It doesn't get spoken about?
No, no, no.
So I live quite another life at home.
We live on an island, we have a big farm,
we're surrounded with [F] horses and with animals,
and we [C] seldom talk about Abba,
because also it's such a long time back.
But of course, that doesn't mean I'm not proud of what we have done.
[G] And that [Eb] so many people loved and love our music,
that's a great feeling.
Bjorn came into our studio on Breakfast about three weeks ago now.
Ah.
And one of the things he said [D] was that the reason Abba
are not getting back together
is because the right material _ has never come about.
I think that we mostly have felt that, why should we do it?
We have done so, so many songs and during such a long [N] time.
The fact that we had two divorces,
and _ there was no meaning, I think, with getting together again.
Thank you so much.
Thank you. _
Lovely to meet you.
Thank you, same to you.
_ So, too much water under the bridge, she says, to come back together.
Let me just tell you about Agnetha, she's so lovely.
When she first came in the room, some stars,
they just sit down, plop themselves down, don't talk to anyone.
She came in, she went round everyone on the crew introducing herself.
I went that way that day.
_ Fantastic.