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When it comes to Eurovision, there are few bands who symbolize the competition more than ABBA.
The band that put Swedish music on the map won the Eurovision contest in 1974 with this track.
[E] [G] [A] [D]
[G] You are [A] so singing along, right?
Everyone at home sings along to [Bm] ABBA.
Let's talk about this with Bjorn Ulvaeus.
He joins me [G#] now.
First of all, let me ask you about Eurovision.
I read somewhere that you don't watch Eurovision.
Is that correct?
I watch it sometimes, but I think it's, you know, too many countries.
It's difficult to [C] keep the attention up, I think.
[F#] But it's a great TV show.
It is.
It's got almost 200 million viewers around the world.
And Sweden is one of the favorites.
Sweden are the favorites?
One of the favorites.
One of the favorites.
So I hear.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
So what's important to you now?
Because, of course,
you were put on the map, though, for many years you tried and in the end you won in 1974.
But what is important to you now as someone whose fame has just worldwide been so huge?
Well, I'm always into new projects.
For instance, right now I'm doing something in Stockholm called
Mamma Mia!
The Party.
Yeah, I'm trying to [Em] take the fantastic atmosphere that is at the end of each
show of Mamma Mia!
and transferring that into a restaurant situation and having a party there.
So it's something that's become a business, a lucrative business for you, the brand,
the ABBA brand.
However, and correct me if this is wrong, I understand that you, the group,
turned down an offer for one billion dollars to [C] reform as ABBA.
Is that correct?
That's.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what they said.
We turned it down because he wasn't.
It was over a period of a year and it was hundreds of concerts and sponsors and TV shows.
It would have taken 10 years out of our lives.
We just turned it down.
I don't know.
I actually asked a quick question in the newsroom.
What would you do for one billion
dollars?
And performing hundreds of shows over a year was certainly one of the things people were
willing to do for that amount of money.
But you said no.
As you look back, let's talk a little
bit about the songs.
Which is the one song that you, if you had to be remembered for just one,
which one would it be?
Oh, that's a difficult one because we had quite a long career and there are
periods in the career that I mean, in the beginning, I would say I like I still like
Mamma Mia a lot.
And in the middle, I would pick Dancing Queen and maybe towards the
The band that put Swedish music on the map won the Eurovision contest in 1974 with this track.
[E] [G] [A] [D]
[G] You are [A] so singing along, right?
Everyone at home sings along to [Bm] ABBA.
Let's talk about this with Bjorn Ulvaeus.
He joins me [G#] now.
First of all, let me ask you about Eurovision.
I read somewhere that you don't watch Eurovision.
Is that correct?
I watch it sometimes, but I think it's, you know, too many countries.
It's difficult to [C] keep the attention up, I think.
[F#] But it's a great TV show.
It is.
It's got almost 200 million viewers around the world.
And Sweden is one of the favorites.
Sweden are the favorites?
One of the favorites.
One of the favorites.
So I hear.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
So what's important to you now?
Because, of course,
you were put on the map, though, for many years you tried and in the end you won in 1974.
But what is important to you now as someone whose fame has just worldwide been so huge?
Well, I'm always into new projects.
For instance, right now I'm doing something in Stockholm called
Mamma Mia!
The Party.
Yeah, I'm trying to [Em] take the fantastic atmosphere that is at the end of each
show of Mamma Mia!
and transferring that into a restaurant situation and having a party there.
So it's something that's become a business, a lucrative business for you, the brand,
the ABBA brand.
However, and correct me if this is wrong, I understand that you, the group,
turned down an offer for one billion dollars to [C] reform as ABBA.
Is that correct?
That's.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what they said.
We turned it down because he wasn't.
It was over a period of a year and it was hundreds of concerts and sponsors and TV shows.
It would have taken 10 years out of our lives.
We just turned it down.
I don't know.
I actually asked a quick question in the newsroom.
What would you do for one billion
dollars?
And performing hundreds of shows over a year was certainly one of the things people were
willing to do for that amount of money.
But you said no.
As you look back, let's talk a little
bit about the songs.
Which is the one song that you, if you had to be remembered for just one,
which one would it be?
Oh, that's a difficult one because we had quite a long career and there are
periods in the career that I mean, in the beginning, I would say I like I still like
Mamma Mia a lot.
And in the middle, I would pick Dancing Queen and maybe towards the
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When it comes to Eurovision, there are few bands who symbolize the competition more than ABBA.
The band that put Swedish music on the map won the Eurovision contest in 1974 with this track. _ _
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ You are [A] so singing along, right?
Everyone at home sings along to [Bm] ABBA.
Let's talk about this with Bjorn Ulvaeus.
He joins me [G#] now.
First of all, let me ask you about Eurovision.
I read somewhere that you don't watch Eurovision.
Is that correct?
I watch it sometimes, but I think it's, you know, too many countries.
It's difficult to [C] keep the attention up, I think.
[F#] But it's a great TV show.
It is.
It's got almost 200 million viewers around the world.
And Sweden is one of the favorites. _ _
Sweden are the favorites?
One of the favorites.
One of the favorites.
So I hear.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
So what's important to you now?
Because, of course,
you were put on the map, though, for many years you tried and in the end you won in 1974.
But what is important to you now as someone whose fame has just worldwide been so huge?
_ Well, I'm always into new projects.
For instance, right now I'm doing something in Stockholm called
Mamma Mia!
The Party.
Yeah, I'm trying to [Em] take the fantastic atmosphere that is at the end of each
show of Mamma Mia!
and transferring that into a restaurant situation and having a party there.
So it's something that's become a business, a lucrative business for you, the brand,
the ABBA brand.
However, and correct me if this is wrong, I understand that you, the group,
turned down an offer for one billion dollars to [C] reform as ABBA.
Is that correct?
That's.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what they said.
We turned it down because he wasn't.
It was over a period of a year and it was hundreds of concerts and sponsors and TV shows.
It would have taken 10 years out of our lives.
We just turned it down.
I don't know.
I actually asked a quick question in the newsroom.
What would you do for one billion
dollars?
And performing hundreds of shows over a year was certainly one of the things people were
willing to do for that amount of money.
But you said no.
As you look back, let's talk a little
bit about the songs.
Which is the one song that you, if you had to be remembered for just one,
which one would it be?
_ Oh, that's a difficult one because we had quite a long career and there are
periods in the career that I mean, in the beginning, I would say I like I still like
Mamma Mia a lot.
And in the middle, I would pick Dancing Queen and maybe towards the
The band that put Swedish music on the map won the Eurovision contest in 1974 with this track. _ _
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ You are [A] so singing along, right?
Everyone at home sings along to [Bm] ABBA.
Let's talk about this with Bjorn Ulvaeus.
He joins me [G#] now.
First of all, let me ask you about Eurovision.
I read somewhere that you don't watch Eurovision.
Is that correct?
I watch it sometimes, but I think it's, you know, too many countries.
It's difficult to [C] keep the attention up, I think.
[F#] But it's a great TV show.
It is.
It's got almost 200 million viewers around the world.
And Sweden is one of the favorites. _ _
Sweden are the favorites?
One of the favorites.
One of the favorites.
So I hear.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
So what's important to you now?
Because, of course,
you were put on the map, though, for many years you tried and in the end you won in 1974.
But what is important to you now as someone whose fame has just worldwide been so huge?
_ Well, I'm always into new projects.
For instance, right now I'm doing something in Stockholm called
Mamma Mia!
The Party.
Yeah, I'm trying to [Em] take the fantastic atmosphere that is at the end of each
show of Mamma Mia!
and transferring that into a restaurant situation and having a party there.
So it's something that's become a business, a lucrative business for you, the brand,
the ABBA brand.
However, and correct me if this is wrong, I understand that you, the group,
turned down an offer for one billion dollars to [C] reform as ABBA.
Is that correct?
That's.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what they said.
We turned it down because he wasn't.
It was over a period of a year and it was hundreds of concerts and sponsors and TV shows.
It would have taken 10 years out of our lives.
We just turned it down.
I don't know.
I actually asked a quick question in the newsroom.
What would you do for one billion
dollars?
And performing hundreds of shows over a year was certainly one of the things people were
willing to do for that amount of money.
But you said no.
As you look back, let's talk a little
bit about the songs.
Which is the one song that you, if you had to be remembered for just one,
which one would it be?
_ Oh, that's a difficult one because we had quite a long career and there are
periods in the career that I mean, in the beginning, I would say I like I still like
Mamma Mia a lot.
And in the middle, I would pick Dancing Queen and maybe towards the