{"id":11348,"date":"2016-10-26T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:18:14","slug":"abba-komt-weer-samen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/ex-deelnemers\/abba-komt-weer-samen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ABBA comes together again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The four members of Swedish pop group ABBA will be together for a project of an ex-manager of the Spice Girls. ITV, the biggest British commercial broadcaster claims that, according to press agency Belga. (Photo: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The foursome Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad was going to collaborate on a musical project by <strong>Simon Fuller<\/strong>, ex-manager of the Spice Girls. It is a &#8216; ground-breaking undertaking to which the very latest in digital and virtual reality technology is used, &#8220;says Fuller. The &#8216; authenticity and integrity &#8216; of the band would also be preserved.<\/p>\n<p>In June this year has already been done what no one really expected it to be: a <strong>reunion<\/strong> of ABBA. The two female members sang along <em>The Way Old Friends Do<\/em>, one of their countless hits:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"K5nYTGQfnnQ\" data-time=\"0\">\n<div class=\"play-button\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"play-button\" alt=\"play\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/themes\/songfestival\/img\/play.svg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The international career of ABBA was careful started in 1973 with <strong><em>Ring Ring<\/em><\/strong>, a song which came third in the Swedish Eurovision heat that year but became a hit in several countries, including Belgium. A year later they won <em>Melodifestivalen <\/em>successively and the Eurovision Song Contest with <em>Waterloo<\/em>, and the rest is musical history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their career began after their Eurovision victory in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1246,2496,2498,2497,2499,254,219,17,830,35,2500,1343,178,2502,2501,44],"class_list":["post-11348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ex-deelnemers","tag-abba","tag-agnetha-faltskog","tag-benny-andersson","tag-bjorn-ulvaeus","tag-en-anni-frid-lyngstad","tag-eurosong","tag-eurovisiesongfestival","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-melodifestivalen","tag-ring-ring","tag-sverige","tag-sweden","tag-the-way-old-friends-do","tag-waterloo","tag-zweden"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}