ABBA co-founder Bjorn Ulvaeus: “During the ‘70s we had our ears to the ground all the time: ‘What are the Bee Gees doing this time? What’s that sound? This is some new s—t! We have to get it!’”
— but following is a loose conversation that most ABBA fans are likely to find entertaining and illuminating.
Even though they’re new, the first two songs from the album, “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down,” are kind of timeless — they just sound like ABBA. Are there more songs in the vault? It looked like you had cleaned it out for the re-releases and boxed sets in the ‘90s. Because we spent so much time writing and recording. And during that time — ‘73-‘82, nine years — we may have toured [only] six months. Almost all the rest of the time we spent writing and recording, and we never went into the studio unless we had a full song — we might not have had the intro, that might have come later, but definitely the whole song in a definite form. And as you have seen, there are very few songs in the cabinet.
No, they didn’t, actually! But that’s a great song — when we wrote it we were so deliriously happy, we played it all night long.
And it would have, had we not gone on that break in ’82. That would have been an ABBA song, definitely, so would “One Night in Bangkok” and “Nobody’s Side,” songs like that. But we wanted to try something new, all four of us, so we went our separate ways and planned to do something together in the future, and it turned out to be 40 years .Not really. Jazz was never an influence for us, it was more folk music and pop and rock and roll — plus French[pop].
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