In the event you had found out methods to get a hologram to do your job, would you ever hassle going to work once more?
In all probability the one folks on the earth who can reply that query with any authority are Abba, who’ve performed to greater than one million folks in London previously yr with out even having to depart the home.
It ought to maybe be no shock then, that the group have dominated out returning to the Eurovision contest for a last time when it’s held in Sweden subsequent yr.
Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, the band’s foremost songwriters, mentioned they’d not reunite with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad to mark 50 years since they received the 1974 contest with Waterloo.
There had been more and more feverish hypothesis that the band would reform and maybe even compete as Sweden’s entry, regardless of having not performed collectively since showing on Noel Edmonds’ The Late Late Breakfast Show on the BBC in 1982.
In a recording for the BBC’s Newsnight programme on Thursday night, Andersson mentioned there was “no approach” the group was going to reunite and even stroll on stage collectively throughout Eurovision.
“I don’t need to,” he mentioned. “And if I don’t need to, the others received’t.
“It’s the identical for all 4 of us. Somebody says no – it’s a no.”
Ulvaeus, who additionally mentioned it was a no from him, added: “We are able to have a good time 50 years of Abba with out us being on stage.”
Their feedback do, nevertheless, depart the door open to an look from the quartet’s “Abbatars” – digital versions of themselves, that are at present taking part in to sold-out crowds each night time in London as a part of Abba Voyage.
Greater than one million folks have been to see the multimedia extravaganza because it opened final June in a purpose-built area within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, many paying greater than £100 a ticket.
Abba, who’ve bought greater than 400m albums and singles, have been the primary Swedes to clinch a Eurovision victory. This yr Loreen sang Sweden’s seventh winning song, Tattoo, having already triumphed with Euphoria in 2012.
Abba received Eurovision once more in 2005 with Waterloo at a particular version of the competition to mark its fiftieth anniversary, however didn’t play reside. For his or her final ever efficiency collectively on Edmonds’ present greater than 40 years in the past, they carried out Thank You for the Music.
Whereas they have been in killjoy mode for his or her followers, Ulvaeus and Andersson additionally poured chilly water on rumours {that a} third version of the hit musical Mamma Mia! was within the works.
“Folks need to do it,” Andersson mentioned. “Common [Music Group] needs to do it. “[The Mamma Mia! producer] Judy Craymer needs to do it.”
However he insisted that with out modifications to the script and setting – a fictional Greek island – “there’s not going to be a subsequent Mamma Mia! movie. That’s simply wishful considering.”