{"id":138298,"date":"2025-05-28T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/138298\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:39:09","slug":"abba-stars-perform-together-again-at-incredible-encore-for-abba-voyage-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/138298\/","title":{"rendered":"ABBA stars perform together again at incredible encore for ABBA Voyage anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the show, which featured new songs including Super Trouper, in a Benny Andersson played piano with Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Elvis Costello and then Guy Garvey taking the mic<\/p>\n<p>09:13, 28 May 2025Updated 09:19, 28 May 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Lucky fans were treated to an incredible encore at the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/breaking-abba-voyage-relaunches-huge-35295546\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">ABBA Voyage 3rd anniversary show<\/a> &#8211; when two of the original band member sang and played piano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The revolutionary concert featuring cutting-edge <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tech\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> so the band appear as avatars on screen features spectacular lighting, and now even more of the most beloved songs ever written after new ones were added last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The audience screamed with delight when they were told they were watching the performance with band members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad in attendance for the celebratory event.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/breaking-abba-voyage-relaunches-huge-35295546\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abba Voyage relaunches with huge changes including four &#8216;forgotten&#8217; songs added<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2_Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-213933.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>(Image: Mirror)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Then after the show which featured new songs including Super Trouper, in a backstage garden area for some of the invited guests, Benny played piano with Elvis Costello and then Guy Garvey taking lead vocals whilst fellow ABBA member Anni-Frid &#8211; known as Frida &#8211; looked on dressed in white.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At one point Elvis briefly handed the mic to Frida which saw her and Benny reunited for a few bars. Songs included Knowing Me, Knowing You sung by Elvis and The Winner Takes It All sung by Guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The crowd which included <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/myleene-klass\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Myleene Klass <\/a>and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/denise-van-outen\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Denise Van Outen<\/a> looked on stunned to see Abba members joining in the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And Guy told the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirror<\/a>: \u201cThat was amazing. That\u2019s the soundtrack to everyone in my family getting christened and married, they are absolute legends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI found out that(encore) was happening about a week ago. It was mind-blowing. Benny was an absolute gentleman and really funny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cI hadn\u2019t seen the show before tonight. It blew my mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cMy son is turning into quite the dancer at eight years old so I will be indoctrinating him into all of Abba\u2019s back catalogue to bring him here. It\u2019s an amazing and lovely experience. The best night out I can think of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Earlier in the evening the new tracks and imagery had gone down a storm with the audience, with Super Trouper arguably the one going down best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Frida also took to the mic at the end of the Abba Voyage show in the arena and told the whole audience: \u201cThank you for all of your support over the years. It\u2019s hard to imagine that\u2019s 50 years or more. I am turning 80 this year!I love you, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">* ABBA Voyage is now booking until January 2026. For information and best availability of tickets go to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abbavoyage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"www.abbavoyage.comLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">www.abbavoyage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the show, which featured new songs including Super Trouper, in a Benny Andersson played piano with Anni-Frid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[53431,60273,60275,60274,77,60272,269,30493,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-138298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-abba","9":"tag-benny-andersson","10":"tag-denise-van-outen","11":"tag-elvis-costello","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-guy-garvey","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-myleene-klass","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114584798124552806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}