STOCKHOLM: ABBA fever hit Stockholm yesterday when a museum devoted to the Swedish pop legends opened — filling a void in the hearts of millions of fans since the group disbanded three decades ago and likely to fill the pockets of Sweden’s tourism industry too.
“I’m so moved, I think it’s so fantastic that we get to see the history of ABBA,” 46-year-old Swede Henrik Ahlen, who lives in London but came to Stockholm to be one of the first to tour the new museum. “I was eight years old when they won the Eurovision Song Contest (in 1974) and they have always been a part of me.”
The quartet last performed on stage together in 1982 and split a year later, and have vowed they will never reunite to sing together again. The state-of-the-art museum, located on Stockholm’s leafy island of Djurgaarden, allows visitors to get up close and personal with the band, offering a bevy of interactivity.
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