ABBA hasn’t officially claimed the end of the group, but the group has for some time been considered melted. Their last public performance together as ABBA was on the English Television program The Late, Late Breakfast Show, 11th December 1982. In Jan 1983, Agnetha started recording sessions for a solo album, as Frida had successfully released her album Something’s Going On some months earlier. Bjrn and Benny started song writing sessions for the musical Chess, and ABBA was postponed meanwhile. In interviews, Bjrn and Benny denied the split of ABBA (“Who are we without our women? Initials of Brigitte Bardot?”) And Frida and Agnetha kept saying in interviews that ABBA would come together for a new album continually during 1983 and 1984.
Internal struggle between the group and their boss escalated and the group sold their stock in Polar Music during 1983. With this, the foursome didn’t come together in public till all 4 members were brought together at the Swedish premiere of Mamma Mia! On four July 2008. In a chat with the Sun, Telegram, following the premiere, Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson confirmed that there was nothing that would lure them back on stage again. “We won’t ever appear on stage again”, Ulvaeus asserted. “There’s simply no incentive to re-group. Money isn’t an element and we’d like folk to recollect us as we were. Young, exuberant, full of energy and aspiration. I recollect Robert Plant saying Led Zeppelin were a cover band now because they cover all of their own stuff. I suspect that hit the nail squarely on the head. “Nonetheless on 3rd Jan 2011, Agnetha, who has been long said to be the most reclusive member of the group and potentially also the serious obstruction to any reunion, raised the chance of reuniting for a one off engagement. She confessed that she hasn’t yet brought the concept up to the other 3 members.
