It's not about the Money Money Money for ABBA... as they 'turn down $1 billion for a reunion tour'



One of their biggest singles was all about what they would do with a 'little money', but it seems even $1billion can't persuade one of the most successful pop groups of all time to reclaim the stage.



The band, who rose to global fame in the 70's, made up of Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Frida Lyngstad, have quashed rumours that they could reunite for a comeback tour.

ABBA seem to have firmly decided that they will not be making a comeback for love nor money, but maybe for the music.

End of the road: ABBA have firmly denied the possibility of reuniting for a tour, despite being offered $1 billion, from left to right: Benny Andersson, Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus in 1978

Amongst reports that the Swedish super group had been offered up to $1 billion to reform, Frida told Irelands national broadcaster RTE at the Tate Modern on Monday:



'No amount of money would change our minds. Maybe we sometimes say it would be good to do a song together again, just a recording and nothing else, but I don’t know if that will happen - so don’t say that we will!'



Members of the Swedish supergroup marked 40 years since their international breakthrough hit Waterloo with a party for hundreds of guests at London's Tate Modern gallery.

Bjorn Ulvaeus said he felt 'extremely proud and humbled' by decades of success that includes hit records, the stage and movie musical "Mamma Mia" and a Stockholm museum dedicated to the band.

Legends: Swedish singer's Bjorn Ulvaeus, left, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, of the pop group ABBA, pose on the red carpet at the Tate Modern in central London on Monday April 7

And Frida Lyngstad said she was proud of ABBA's ultra-70s look of big boots and spangly jumpsuits, documented in a new photo book about the band.



The former singer, now 68 said: 'It was our youth, it was our time, and we decided how we wanted to dress ourselves onstage', adding, 'And it was fun.'

She said some performers 'are even more courageous nowadays, if you think of Lady Gaga, for example.'

Having fun: Frida said the bands crazy stage costumes were just a 'bit of fun' and not half as mad as Lady Gaga's

Lyngstad said she could not explain the global success of ABBA, which rocketed when the band won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo.



The quartet's blend of poppy melodies, lush harmonies and slick arrangements helped them sell more than 400 million records around the world.

'We never had a formula' Lyngstad said, 'We just did what we loved the most. And the great thing was maybe that the four of us met and started to work together the way we did. Two great songwriters, Bjorn and Benny, together with Agnetha's and my voices.'

The foursome eventually fractured, with the band's two married couples — Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog— divorcing.

But Ulvaeus said the four of them recently met up, and 'the chemistry is still there.'

We bonded instantly,' he said.

So are they tempted to make fans' wishes come true with an ABBA reunion?

Lyngstad laughed. 'No' she said.

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