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ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus had 'severe problems' with age gap romance

ABBA star Bjorn Ulvaeus experienced "love at first sight" when he met his wife Christina Sas but he also had "severe problems" with their age gap romance.

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"Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were huge fans of Abba. Abba may not have been huge fans of the Sex Pistols

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Sharon Osbourne teases Black Sabbath hologram show after final gig

Sharon Osbourne has insisted she would consider working on a Black Sabbath hologram show after this summer's 'Back To The Beginning' farewell show.

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Abba ‘adding a little something’ to avatar arena shows for third anniversary

ABBA Voyage is booking until January 2026.

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ABBA Voyage setlist to change in honour of third anniversary

The 'ABBA Voyage' setlist is to change for the first time in the show's history, three yers after it opened in a purpose-built arena in London.

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"When we did Live Aid, we could barely play. Queen were in the middle of a tour, walked out there, took the whole thing, and turned it into an advert for themselves": Pete Townshend says that The Who invented stadium rock and then gave it away

He also prefers ABBA to Queen

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"And the winners are": Queen, Herbie Hancock and Barbara Hannigan just won 1 million krona each in 2025's Polar Music Prize

The awards, best known for rewarding long-standing rock royalty with cold hard cash, just made its annual pick of the best of the best

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“He noticed that the studio had a marimba sitting in the corner, and the rest is history”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind ABBA's Mamma Mia

On Mamma Mia's 50th birthday, our resident music prof puts ABBA's infectiously catchy karaoke staple under the musical microscope

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Did Amanda Seyfried Just Confirm Mamma Mia! 3? ‘Oh, It’s Happening’

Actress Amanda Seyfried has seemingly confirmed the future of 'Mamma Mia! 3', stating that it's "happening".

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"A ninth album would have been about riffs - interestingly constructed riffs and hypnotic music": Jimmy Page looks back on the tests and turmoil of Led Zeppelin's final albums

The man who led Zeppelin looks back on Presence, In Through The Out Door and Coda

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“It didn’t feel that good. There was nothing special about it, other than it had belonged to Kurt Cobain.” Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt wasn’t impressed when he got to play the Nirvana frontman’s guitar

The Opeth mainman admits he wasn’t that wowed when he recently got his hands on Kurt Cobain’s “haunted” guitar

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"After shaking her hand, I went out and had like five cigarettes in a row just to calm myself down. I get starstruck easily": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on the time he met ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog and had dinner with her

Mikael Åkerfeldt looks back on the time he was starstruck after meeting fellow Swedish legend, Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA

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Mogwai's new single Fanzine Made of Flesh sounds like "ABBA meets Kraftwerk" according to guitarist Stuart Braithwaite

Scottish post-rock quartet Mogwai will release their brand new studio album The Bad Fire in January

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“I could be listening to Abba one minute and then Morbid Angel. It doesn’t seem strange to me”: How Porcupine Tree reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century metal generation

Porcupine Tree’s 2010 album The Incident capped their rise from cult psychedelicists to prog metal giants

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"Most of my favourite bands, their fourteenth album was shit": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop, and their awesome 14th album

When ABBA-mad Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt met one of their singers, he “lost it”. She didn’t sing on their new concept album, but some other, perhaps unlikely, big names did

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Michael Fassbender finally 'understood' ABBA after scary brush with death

Michael Fassbender developed a new appreciation for ABBA following a near-death experience during a late night boat trip to Ibiza.

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The top music documentaries to watch this Christmas (and where to find them)

Give Christmas Top of the Pops and The Two Ronnies the swerve this year with our pick of essential festive music viewing

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AP's top music documentaries of 2024: Taylor Swift, ABBA, the Boss and more — and where to watch

Here are some of The Associated Press’ favorite music documentaries of the year — in no particular order — along with where to find them

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Evening Standard

Abba Voyage gives £1.4bn economic boost - and may stay in London 'forever'

Executive producer Michael Bolingbroke said the Swedish pop group ‘chose the UK when they could have gone anywhere else’

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Abba ‘chose the UK’ for virtual show which brings £1.4bn boost to economy

Executive producer Michael Bolingbroke said the Swedish pop group ‘chose the UK when they could have gone anywhere else’.

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"We weren’t fiddling around and wondering what to do, we were going to nail this sucker": Steve Howe names the best record he's ever made

Yes guitarist Steve Howe picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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Pierce Brosnan believes Mamma Mia! 3 is 'doable'

Pierce Brosnan would "welcome the opportunity" to return for a third 'Mamma Mia!' film and he believes another sequel is "doable" following a meeting with producer Judy Craymer over the summer.

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‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance

Does Charlie Simpson regret choosing Sigur Rós? Did Chesney Hawkes play ‘that’ song? And who picked an eight-minute jam by LCD Soundsystem? Musicians on the songs they chose for their wedding dance, for better or for worse

International Business Times

ABBA's Bjorn Among 11,000 Artists Issuing AI Warning

Thousands of artists including ABBA singer Bjorn Ulvaeus, Hollywood actress Julianne Moore and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro have signed a statement warning about the unlicensed use of artificial intelligence.

The Independent UK

ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure musicians sign AI protest letter against 'unlicensed use' of works

Musicians from ABBA, Radiohead and The Cure have joined actors and authors in signing a protest letter against the mining of their artistry to build artificial intelligence tools

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