Swedish disco-pants pioneers Abba say the country's tax laws are to blame for their flamboyant attire.
The sequinned jumpsuits and platform shoes were not merely a fad of the 1970s, Björn Ulvaeus wrote in "Abba: The Official Photo Book", published to mark 40 years since they won Eurovision with Waterloo and featuring scores of intimate, never-before-seen pictures.
According to Ulvaeus Swedish laws allow businesses to deduce the cost of clothing against tax - as long as they were too outrageous to be worn out on the streets.
"In my honest opinion we looked like nuts in those years," he wrote. "Nobody can have been as badly dressed on stage as we were."
Ulvaeus also poured cold water on rumours of a possible Abba reunion, saying: 'If any one of us has opened the door a crack, I'm shutting it now.'
I'm not asking for a new album and huge reunion tour (both would be huge mistakes), just come together for some charity show and do a song. Both the girls are still singing, both the boys are still playing instruments and composing. It could be frikken Chiquitita again for all I care.
I understand why they don't want to, they're worried it'll tarnish their legacy and come off as desperate, but I wish they would. ABBA used to be my favs.
why are the so against being together again? Is there bad blood?
I think one of the main reasons is because they hate fame. From what I remember they primarily split because Agnetha (aka. the blonde one) hated the fame so much, hence why she withdrew and pretty much kept out of the public eye ever since.
I think one of the main reasons is because they hate fame. From what I remember they primarily split because Agnetha (aka. the blonde one) hated the fame so much, hence why she withdrew and pretty much kept out of the public eye ever since.
I think one of the main reasons is because they hate fame. From what I remember they primarily split because Agnetha (aka. the blonde one) hated the fame so much, hence why she withdrew and pretty much kept out of the public eye ever since.
Agnetha just came out with a new album, and slowly but surely she's getting used to the fame again.
I think one of the main reasons is because they hate fame. From what I remember they primarily split because Agnetha (aka. the blonde one) hated the fame so much, hence why she withdrew and pretty much kept out of the public eye ever since.
its sad. Is that always why their career stopped so soon? I mean didn't they stop making music in the early 80s? If they had stayed together it's hard to tell how many other hits we could have gotten.
