We saw ourselves and thought, What the hell!
Daily Express|May 25, 2022
MOST people will not have clocked the trio of seventysomethings as they quietly took their seats in the new Abba Arena in London's Olympic Park.
Tom Bryant
We saw ourselves and thought, What the hell!

After all, they were right at the back, the lights were down and all eyes were on the stage.

"We were sitting away back in the darkness, so nobody saw us," Bjorn Ulvaeus, 77, laughs.

"Benny was there and Frida too...and we just looked at ourselves and thought: 'What the hell is this. How did this happen?"

Monday night was a rehearsal of the new Voyage show, featuring Bjorn, Agnetha Fältskog, 72, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 76, and Benny Andersson, 75, as digitally created younger selves or Abba-tars made with the help of George Lucas's visual effects company.

This story is from the May 25, 2022 edition of Daily Express.

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