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31.03.09

Message to friends of Graeme & Grant - both now have their own personal blogs. You can contact either via their respective sites:
Graeme
www.thebestjudge.com
Grant
http://twistinthedark.wordpress.com/
 

6.12.08

All orders from the last days of the ABBAMAIL webshop have now been processed and posted.

16.11.08

Grant and Graeme are overwhelmed by the messages of thanks that fans are continuing to send. Due to the volume of messages received we simply are unable to reply to each person individually. However each message is read and is very, very much appreciated by us.

A sincere thank you from Graeme and Grant to all the people who have sent in thank you messages, tributes and goodbye messages to us in the last few days.. Your kind words and thoughts are very much appreciated by both of us.

No Abba oldies for a Mamma Mia sequel, says Benny   from telegraph.co.uk

Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA, whose songs provided the soundtrack to the huge hit musical Mamma Mia!, has revealed that there will be no sequel - at least not one featuring any of the Swedish band's music.

"No," he tells me, "it's not going to happen. There will not be another, quote unquote, ABBA musical."

Rumours of a sequel were fuelled when the film's Hollywood star Meryl Streep said that she would love to reunite the cast - which included Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth - for a follow-up.

Last year, Mamma Mia! overtook Titanic to become the UK's highest grossing film. But Andersson, 62, who appears with Kylie Minogue in Hyde Park tonight, as part of a BBC gala tribute to ABBA. said that he will not permit his back catalogue to be used in a sequel. However, he left open the prospect that the film's producers might use another artist's music for the soundtrack.

"Catherine Johnson [the screenwriter] is keen on working on something with her characters in Mamma Mia! - but it will not be with ABBA music," he said.

Famously prickly about the question of ABBA ever getting back together, Andersson added that he and Ulvaeus will never perform again with their respective ex-wives, singers Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog. "This is easy to talk about," he said, emphatically, "there's not going to be a reunion."

But he admitted he is keen to rekindle his writing partnership with Ulvaeus. Their songs, including Waterloo, Dancing Queen and The Winner Takes It All, helped ABBA sell more than 350 million albums worldwide. The band's greatest hits compilation is now the UK's fourth best-selling album of all time.

"Bjorn and I haven't done anything substantial together for 15 years," he said. "We talk about 'Do you think we should do anything else?' It's a matter of having the right thing to work on. We don't have anything as it is now, but something might pop up."

Later this year, an exhibition called Abbaworld is expected to open in London, before going on tour around the world. Promoters say it will offer fans a rare chance to see ABBA's costumes and other memorabilia, in a "state-of-the-art, multi-media experience".


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What's happened to ABBAMAIL?

Please note that after 12 years of serving the ABBA fan community, ABBAMAIL has closed down. The website content has been deleted. The ABBAMAIL Fan Forum, Chat Room and other services have been closed down.

Since Universal Music Sweden took legal action against ABBAMAIL in 2006 and prevented us from being able to cover our costs, the ABBAMAIL organisation has been subsidised by the owners for thousands of dollars. However, the owners are no longer able to afford to subsidise ABBAMAIL.

Additionally, after everything that has happened over the last few years, and after almost 35 years of ABBA fandom, Graeme & Grant no longer consider themselves "ABBA fans." They will always love the music and the memories of being part of organised fandom but they have no respect or affection for the members of ABBA, front-woman Görel Hanser, their business dealings and particularly, their business partners, Universal Music.

To the fans and friends who have supported ABBAMAIL over the last 12 years - and especially in the last two years - we say a sincere and heartfelt "thank you!" 

Personal statements from ABBAMAIL founders Graeme Read and Grant Whittingham about the closure have been uploaded here.

ABBAMAIL is an unofficial fan site and is not associated with 'ABBA' or any of their related companies.
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