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Abba turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite because it would have involved playing 250 shows, the singer Agnetha Fältskog has revealed.

It was made in 2000 by a British-American consortium, which asked the 1970s Swedish disco stars to tour 100 cities.

The group’s keyboard player, Benny Andersson, and guitarist, Björn Ulvaeus, publicly turned down the offer down at the time, and Fältskog told the Radio Times yesterday that she had no regrets.

“We said no because they wanted 250 shows or something, it was incredible,” she explained. “No chance. No chance. We had done it.”

Andersson told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in 2000 that: “It was a hell of a lot of money to say no to, but we decided it wasn’t for us.”