Björn Ulvaeus on ABBA Voyage: 'It's absolutely mind-blowing' (CNN) FULL INTERVIEW
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2022
- ABBA founding member Björn Ulvaeus speaks with Bianna Golodryga about the group's groundbreaking new stage show and becoming an "ABBA-tar".Source: CNN
Cheers to the Interviewer 👏 such a professional and very respectful and charismatic, she gave a great interview!
I was privileged to see this on the opening night and boy, was it fantastic. Jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, stunning, spectacular. Everything about it is such perfection. You really do think it is actually Abba on stage.
As if the show wasn't awesome enough, the real Abba all came on stage to take a bow, to a deafening standing ovation. They are Pop Royalty. I don't think any other group could have pulled this off and to such perfection ❤️
Lucky you, an event of magical joy no doubt ! .....I hope to fly over from the US this October to experience it
@@bobbyyounger7632 I hope you do. It is definitely worth it.
Hey Anthony you were "double" lucky cause you saw them in flesh and blood that night too in their first and last official appearence as a united band since 1982.Didn't make it to be there,i really cried a lot cause i wanted to shout out to them a big "thank you" but fortunately many of you did it that night.
@@christianoazzuro6711 we certainly did shout it to them. The noise was deafening ❤️
I was too on 26th May ! It was wonderful ! I will go on July again, it’s fantastic !
ABBA are perfectionists & the girl's voices are as beautiful in sync now as they were then. I'm seeing the wonderful show in November. 😊
Will ALWAYS be an ABBA fan!!! They gave life to music and still do!
AMEN ! They are brilliant
I think one of the best Abba interviews ever.
Bianca expressed real depth of both emotion and intellect on the subject.
None of that gushing contrite goofball camp shit which always elicits the same rote replies.
Even Bjorn himself was pressed to a less scripted response.
Thoroughly loved it!
Thank you Bianca and CNN. This is how Abba interviews should be done 🙏
Yes Sir!2 decent,civilised beautiful people.
Yea this makes me actually want to watch CNN again, after 2 decades
ABBAsolutely!
It was a good one.
Check out his interview on the Canadian show Q. It’s a great one as well.
Brilliant interview by Bianna of one of the 4 Super Swedes from the greatest Pop band ever. ABBA's music is absolutely timeless and incomparably untouchable.
ABBA is quintessential perfection!!!
This professional and uplifting interview between ABBA fan, CNN's Bianna and Bjorn also made me cry with joy. Thanks for posting and making my Friday here in Australia.
Bianna was nice and so was Bjorn.He seems quite relaxed now and so confident after the "risky" Voyage "experiment" got so much positive response and after such hard work for almost 5 years also carrying all the agony of a possible failure.I'm so proud and happy that its well deserved success was such a big reward for all 4 Abba.He once said it, he wanted people to come see this and cry , when the show was still in the making.And this aim was also achieved!..Bianna is also such a beautiful lady and seems to be a kind person.And of course she is...She is an Abba fan.Thank you Bianna.
Well said!
(Not that it matters that much, we from Sweden are used, but it is Björn, not Bjorn. Ö and o are not the same character, nor sounding)
@@AndersJackson indeed. You would think after all these years, the English speaking media could make the small effort to get it right. see also Björk!
It also made my Frida here in Sweden!
Their lesser known songs like "Watch Out", "My Mama Said", "Dream World", "Tiger", "Move On" etc. are awesome songs, too.
Yes, and "Another Town, Another Train," " Disillusion," "Happy Hawaii," "If It Wasn't For The Nights," "Our Last Summer," "I Am The City" and many more non-hits were also great.
The Piper is another one and it sounds so fresh you’d think it was new, it would’ve been amazing to hear live in the Voyage concert. I was lucky to go see it last Sunday and it was awesome, they did a few lesser known songs as well which was nice but they missed a trick with not including The Piper on the set list. Perhaps in the near future they will
@@gagalover2k10 I could have also listed "The Piper" too; I think it has always been underrated. I always especially liked their songs that have some traditional Swedish / Scottish / Scandinavian elements.."When You Danced With Me" is my favorite "Voyage" song. I think they left out "The Piper" because of lack of time as they probably wanted to include all biggest hits and that was actually a B side.
@@bobdavis4848 "Me And I" has also been a favorite of mine.
@@illustriousrocket4476 When an uncle mentioned Sigmund Freud, I mentioned the Dr. Freud reference in "Me And I" to him. Yes. that is a great song, too.
greatest band of all time. Must go & watch it.
In a weird way, the time delay probably made it an even better exchange. Björn is such a good interviewee and both of them seemed to understand that lengthy answers made it better. If she'd interrupted, the whole thing could have got messy. The best interviewers let their guests speak freely anyway.
All too rare these days!! 😏
I hope they release the Voyage Tour on DVD for those of us who can't make it to London.
I hope too that they release an album of their unreleased material - that would be awesome!
AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN, ABBA MAKES GROUNDBREAKING PERFECTION 🥰😍😍🥰
What makes ABBA relevant till this day is their humility in all things. God bless you all!
Absolutely fabulous interview! Positive, upbeat and engaged. Loved it.
Thank you.
I’ve been an abba fan right from the beginning. I got so excited when I heard about this. Absolutely amazing, love it ❤️❤️❤️
What a lovely lady and I think Bjorn is a real gentleman xx
I went opening night and thoroughly enjoyed it.
A great, feel good interview. Bianna is obviously a huge fan. Bjorn, as always is humble and unpretentious. BRAVO ABBA ~ your brilliant music & lyrics and the vibrant and dynamic recordings (the beautiful harmonies and voices) will continue to resonate with millions of people.
Bjorn gives an interview from his place and it looks like he is in a professional TV studio!!!. This is what it means to be an audio expert and control your own sound you transmit to a big studio like CNN !!!.. I liked this guy...
What a lovely, intelligent interview. Makes a change from the standard fluff that passes as journalism these days
Love ABBA since their Waterloo performance in 1974. Oh, soooo many beautiful memories! Still very relevant! Many Blessings to ALL!
GREAT MUSIC NEVER DIES!!!
THIS IS A WONDERFUL RE-INTRODUCTION, AGAIN OF GREAT MUSIC, GREAT ARTISTS!!! THANK YOU ABBA....
🎵🎶
Abba gave joy to my life, since 70' and they will continue to do so until i die, thank you ❗❗thankyou❗❗a fan
The magic of ABBA comes to the next stage.
Great interview. Very well done by both of you. And Bianna actually said Björn.
Well, at least she pronounced it almost correctly.
@@Vinterfrid , I would say she pronouced Björn as correctly as possible for a non-swedish speaker. Maybe because she is Russian.
❤️ABBA🇸🇪, and an amazing concert!!!!!!! Cried and danced....
Best Band Ever
ABBA truly is a legend. I grew up loving their musics now decades later I still love their music.
Good musics are truly timeless. I never am tired listen to their musics.
Awesome ABBA! Forever!
I enjoyed this interview.
He looks great at 77! Many years to him, Benny, Frida, and Agnetha!
Excellent interview Bjorn... Bravo.. well- done.. James from Dallas, Texas, U. S. A. 6/19/2022
Genius ❤
That's actually a pretty good interview... I never thought I'd see one come out of the US. Credit to the presenter.
Oh and the show blew my socks off. What a night.
Ah Bjorn. You are the man, the real energy behind the band. Bjorn has worn really well, and he doesn't look bad for a man aged 77. Bjorn never gives much away, and manages to maintain a certain mystique which helps to create the aura of Abba. Abba transcends generations, geographies and genres. (Nice lamp, btw and I'm sure it's available from Ikea 😁)
Great interview.
ABBA... one of my all-time favorite groups.
ABBA is like Christmas carols, it’s never going away.
It's a truly GREAT show (I saw it 2 weeks ago), very immersive and full of surprises
He looks better now than he did then!
January can’t come fast enough!! See you then ABBA!!
Best Experience EVER. I LOVED IT. Soooo amazing.
Great interview 👍
The ABBA/Polar Music Team during their 72-82 heyday:
Stikkan 'Stig' Anderson, mgr
Gorel Johnsen-Hanser, admin
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Benny Andersson
Bjorn Ulveras
Agnetha Falkskog
Rutger Gunnarsson
Michael B Tretow
&
ABBA's loyal top rank session/touring musicians.
This team were a self contained indie band that did everything themselves. They had no corporate music industry puppeteers or overlords. They were their own bosses. They released records on their time table. They toured when and where they wanted. They loved being home in Sweden with family and friends. Regular people.
Great interview
Is that an IKEA lamp behind Björn?! 😂❤️
I find it so astonishing, In the USA they were just a Swedish pop group with a few hits. To the rest of the world ABBA we’re superstars and one of the biggest pop groups in music history
The American , particularly the American male in the 70's, were musically immature and had no idea of western tonal music and ABBA's seamlessly incorporation of MELODY HARMONY RHYTHM from all music genre.
To the ignorant American male they were just a Swedish bubblegum pop band with a few hits. It shows you how ignorant many Americans were.
They got sucked into what they were told by the major record labels via puppeteers.
Too musicians, and the musically & analytically minded American music consumer they were a group with a very high level of musicality, musicianship and professionalism that were out writing/producing the American and British bands.
The entire rest of the world recognized that ABBA were putting out high quality with heart and soul. A "smiling through tears" melancholy effect that only a band from the melancholy belt could write.
The most ignorant demographic in the world regarding ABBA was the young American male and it wasn't close.
ABBA were a self contained indie band that did everything themselves.
They had no corporate music industry puppeteers or overlords like all the American and British bands.
The American pop/rock music establishment, puppeteers, middlemen, could not get rich off of ABBA, so they ignored ABBA.
The opposite of ABBA, was The Beatles. The Beatles were groomer and marketed for the American market. Epstein polished image. Then EMI/George Martin was assigned as their A & R man, producer. The Beatles were a corporate run band that needed the massive American markets (media and consumer).
ABBA just need to get heard outside of Sweden. How did ABBA do that?
Eurovision Song Contest (Waterloo) and their low budget music clips sent to TV station program directors around the world. Boom! ABBA TV before MTV.
ABBA's success was grassroots, not corporate owned music record labels not the American media/consumer markets.
What ABBA/Polar Music did was bust up the American-British monopolistic control by doing a massive end around.
The independent ABBA/Polar Music not only had a high level of musicality musicianship and professionalism. They were also highly intelligent and became an unwanted contrast.
Thanks for bringing it back, ABBA. I hope QUEEN should be next...
GREAT SONGS LAST FOREVER
Perfection
...and the technology will only get better!
I love the idea of this for bands and artists that are still alive but tbh I wouldn't want to watch my two favourite singers George Michael and Amy Winehouse in this; it feels wrong. But yes if any other bands want to. I just can't think of any!!
Abba I adore!! I'm 50 and I just caught their music as a kid, and I love it still so much.
I'd love to see them do this blend the dead & the living. What I mean by that is for example I'm a huge fan of Queen. Born too late to see them with Freddie (seen them with Adam Lambert 4 times though) and one of the things they do on tour (slight spoiler) is the guys duet with video footage of Freddie Mercury and have the video footage do the inconic 'Ayoh's from Live Aid
I think it would be absolutely incredible for them (in the flesh) to duet with a hologram version of him let alone the younger generations who got into Queen after the biopic came out and never got to see them live with Freddie (saw an c. 8 year old at the last Queen gig I went to last week)
Well - Think about it - ABBA In the mid 1970s, were A B B A the most successful PoP Group / Act in the world in all categories. AVATAR`s is Its a good Thing for a Group 40 years later - But a band who are in the for ex 35 - 50 `s of age can wait ! - ABBA IS MORE LIKE - Hey Now You have a Chanse to show a Phenomen in POP -- ABBA
Abba had / has over 70 singles as No. 1 worldwide and over 60 albums no 1 worldvide. In the UK they had 19 straight top 10 singles, 9 singles and nine albums as no. 1 on the British top list of which eight are in succession (1975, 76, -77, -78, -79, -80, -81, -82). In 2014, the group had sold 400 million records and is thus Sweden's most successful music export of all time. and The Latest Voyage comback record / consert project topped the List`s as No 1 in 18 countries ! and a lot of no 2-3-4-5 `s
In The 1970 `s - ABBA did`nt want to be the "Opening Act for any group as their Usa management wanted so they wanted to wait for an USAtour until they had a number one hit - DANCING QUEEN 1976 was the one - BUT Usa had to wait until 1979 - then ABBA came on Tour - Abba had over 70 singles as No. 1 worldwide and over 60 albums no 1 worldvide. So they had to do a lot of Tv Commersials Worldvide and Videos just to reach everywhere - And that make them ( and The Beatles ) one of the pioneers among some other `s in making Music VIDEO`s for Comersial`s before MTV .
ABBA music has been around over 40 years, they have released over 100 compilations and sold records in a 100 or more territories and you know that kind of thing (even in small amounts) does add up over time. ABBA is a uniquely universal group, selling or having their music stolen in every conceivable market. ABBA were popular in the heyday in even less traditional markets like Japan, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Philippines, and nowadays in places like China and Korea. We just can’t nail down a total sales numbers.. I guess will never know.
- ABBA did 3 Big Live Tours - European Tour 1974-75. - 1977 Touring Europe and Australia, where the group was extremely popular, ("ABBA Mania") and was documented in the feature film ABBA - The Movie, which received a bio premiere in December 1977. During the first half of 1978, the group did a promotional tour in the United States, where the single "Take a Chance on Me" climbed to third place.
ABBA has sent 20 songs onto the Hot 100 (all between 1974 and 1982), earning four top 10 s among 14 top 40 hits. ... ABBA has also landed 13 albums on the Billboard 200 (from 1974 to 2011), six of which reached the chart's top 40, led by The Album, which rose to No. 14, the act's best rank, in 1978. - No 1 Hit "Dancing Queen " in 1976 ) -
In the fall of 1979 the group toured Europe, USA and Canada. In the spring of 1980, the tour continued to Japan, which would be their last concert tour Abba was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Swedish Music Hall of Fame in 2014
@@oliviadaly4795 But it would still be Freddie as a hologram - old tech now - not as an avatar! You need a living band member to create an avatar. Holograms have been tried with Whitney Houston and Tupac at two different events - it was grave robbery and was 2D and cheap!!
@@doriangray_1999 ..."grave robbery"...i 'm sorry but i have to agree with you Dorian.At least for Whitney which i loved.Spooky and kinda disrespectful to the most beautiful black songbird my ears have ever heard.And yes indeed it takes a living member for avatar technology as opposed to the hologram but 0f course people can pick and choose whatever they want to, since we can rightfully think/feel different in some cases.
@@doriangray_1999 Yes. I think it would be cool to do with someone like Elvis, but he’s not alive. All of Abba still are and that is the difference. This is really them. It’s not someone wearing a suit imitating them.
Really good interviewing by the presenter
He is a Geni.
It's ABBA no H or R in there, it couldn't be simpler.
No C or D or E, etc...
ᗅᗺᗷᗅ Björn Ulvaeus
Subtitles please
TBH, I really wish they would finish their undeleted works.
ABBA IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE NUMBER 1 GROUP ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT THANKYOU ABBA FOR THE MUSIC 🎶..🎵....🎶 ♥️🎵
What's the part of the show made by the body doubles?
The more athletic dance movements, bearing in mind that ABBA are all now well into their 70's and are not as agile or as fast on their feet as they were in their 30's.
The members joked that their dance steps are better, they have commented on their lack of choreography in their hey-day when they performed making it up as they went.
Abba did the mowes and dances and the younger is layed on and its not "hologram " - "luckas from Holywood who does like starwars so its Abba ground and
🎤🎹🎼🎧📹📡📺😉
I don't understand what they mean by "avatars". Are these projections onto a screen? If so, what's the big deal?
No. The ABBA-tars are not projected on the screen. They are on stage, 4D. They look real. It is brand new cutting edge technology. Read the reviews from those that have been their to include Rolling Stone magazine. They are all blown away.
it's a bit like the matrix
I’d prefer to just get stoned and watch their old videos
Arbour?
Fancy admitting her friend recorded it 😡
KISS will be the next!!
The new frontier. Fleetwood Mac / The Eagles/ The Stones? who is next?
Queen.
They should of just performed together, would of been better even tho they are all in their 70s
Would love for this to happen to led zeppelin. Though i doubt Robert plant and Jimmy page would agree to it.
They apparently discussed it but couldn’t figure out how it would work for them. Although the fact that Robert Plant actually talked about it rather than saying “absolutely not” is huge.
The problem there is the original Zeppelin four can't reunite. It'd have to include Bonzo's son or a total substitute and I think Plant has had enough of that.
4:38 that's because he is Bjørn, not Björn.
IN SWEDISH Its BJÖRN ( means Bear )
Björn is a rather common name i n sweden as a first name and it is named after the animal not the Drink he he - the ABBA has rather Common swedish names
sería bueno subtitulada en español
I will never understand why Americans continue to pronounce it "AHHH-ba."
Maybe because it's close to the way it should be pronounced? The 'a' in the band name should be pronounced with a long vowel - not like most English speakers pronounce it. Same goes with 'Björn' - it's Not pronounced 'Bjorn'.
@@Vinterfrid Um, no. In Swedish ABBA is pronounced somewhere between short-a and ah. The "long vowel" of "a" would be "ay." "AY-ba." Please consider silencing yourself, thanks.
As a swede we don't really bother about that. There are much bigger stuff out there to care about.
@@deliuslyndon8340 "Please consider silencing yourself." How delightfully ESL! I'm going to use that in my classes.
Björn wouldn't need a younger image of himself. Neither would Benny. OK?
Americans need to stop saying Aaba
Isn't it more important that they pronounce Agnetha correctly and stop using "Anna" incorrectly to refer to Agnetha or Anni-Frid / Frida? I've never heard any Abba member declare that the pronunciation of Abba is so important, and some other fans have declared the pronunciation you complained about is correct.
@@bobdavis4848 The ABBA members don't want to aalienate their Aamerican fans
@@mariamalhotra8228 Since you didn't wrote "I think," I am assuming that is not a mere guess of yours, but an actual quote from Abba members or one Abba member on behalf of the others. From what source? I think they don't wish to alienate fans from wherever.
@@bobdavis4848 Carefully re-read Maria's comment (check the spelling), it was a joke which your reply shows you missed.
@@ericchild3363 My reply does not show that. I definitely initially noticed the added a's in "aalienate" and "Aamerican." As part of a statement. There are lots of other ways one can add a couple of extra a's as a joke attempt without also making a proclamation on behalf of Abba members that I think one should have a real quote source for to feel authorized to make that proclamation. Are you saying Maria made a statement she didn't believe just for an opportunity to add a couple of extra a's for a joke attempt? I grew up pronouncing the start of "Abba" like in American pronunciation one "can." Then I was told it's "Aa-ba" or "Ah-bah" so I changed to that way, which I read even recently someone else declaring to be the right way. Then someone else said they suspect Abba feel it is OK for some people to pronounce "Abba" differently depending on what country they are from.
He's going to enjoy counting the money while the holograms do all the work.
Perhaps in a way but I do not think ABBA agreed to this all for the money; years ago they turned down incredible monetary offers to reform.
Sorry, but disagree! Nothing ever will substitute a real live performance! I will not waste my money on computer generated anything….
The cd is great, will stick to that and old dvd’s….
To disagree on something you haven't actually seen is very odd, I've seen them as Abbatars seen them live and have watched many old dvd's but you can't compare unless you have seen it with your own eyes..
It is actually a mind blowing experience that is not explainable unless you have actually witnessed it.
Seeing clips of it on the tv doesn't give you anything like seeing it live and close up, 63 million pixels, 500 moving lights, 291 separate speakers the largest kinetic system in the world using an 850 winch system to drive it.
They are not trying g to substitute a live performance,(although it does seem live) they are giving you an alternative to a live performance, welcome to the future:)
@@ianleigh5157 Technology does NOT fascinate me when it comes to performances! I don’t even care for science fiction movies. I like to see the singers actually performing live. To make the effort to put in a performance, usually the mistakes what makes the night!
So I do not care about abbatars and I would never spend my money to go and watch that.
So many talented singers out there, rather watch them giving their all!
Their last cd was great, would have preferred without autotune, but it doesn’t overtake it so it’s a pleasure to listen to it.
This show for me , a definite no. I’m not loosing anything, enough people will spend their money on it without me, as I said technology like this does not fascinate me… the real magic is we can all choose what we want to see and I chose not to and have the right to form and express my opinion. That’s all…
@@DavidVarkonyi Thats fine, no one is forced to go and see anything, but to disagree on something you quite clearly have no interest in, makes me wonder why you are even looking at this video which is all about this new technological stage show..
@@ianleigh5157 As I expressed in my original point I disagree, I find NOTHING “mind blowing” in computer generated things. Technology is great in some respects, but not in this.
No amount of technology is more fascinating then an artist - singer, actor, dancer ect giving a good performance which moves you, touches you… Live concerts and live theatre is much more worth it then computer generated anything.
The video came up as a recommendation as I do like Abba and I like their last cd. I would just never waste my time and money on this …So you can argue all you want, my original statement stays.
@@DavidVarkonyiA recommendation on the Abba concert that you already knew was all to do with a an amazing technological achievement, but found the time you claim you wouldn't waste to look at something you have no interest in and give a negative comment, about something you have never witnessed...Wow enough said:)