After seventeen years away from the limelight and stardom ABBA-Agnetha Fältskog approaches a gigantic comeback; in March 2004 she releases her first soloalbum in seventeen years.
ABBA-Agnetha Åse Fältskog is currently recording the songs for her new album in great secrecy with her producers Anders Neglin and Dan Strömkvist. For the first time since the beginning of her career Agnetha Fältskog has written some of the songs herself.
“There is some self-penned material, but I don't know whether it's actually going to appear on the record”, says Staffan Lindé, managing director at Agnetha Fältskog's own production company. “It was important for Agnetha that her voice could hold up, which it could. Now she is very pleased with herself”, he adds.
The production of this album began already three years ago but had to be put on hold when ABBA's lengendary sound engineer Michael B Tretow had a stroke. The work was resumed about a year later, with Dan Strömkvist as Tretow's successor.
A single will be released in January 2004 and the album itself in March 2004. A Swedish record company has already been hired and the international interest is titanic. “Ever since this news became public broadcasters from all over the world have been ringing us”, says Staffan Lindé.
Agnetha Fältskog and the other three members of now dissolved ABBA wrote Eurovision history when their song Waterloo supremely won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, UK. World stardom followed for the quartet a few years later, and parallell to her singing in ABBA Agnetha also recorded some solo albums, the last of which dates 1987.
Since then she has lived a very reserved life on the Isle of Ekerö, west of Swedish capital Stockholm. The media's interest in her personal life, especially after the break-up of ABBA in 1982, has also been a contributing factor to her unobtrusive way of living.
Staffan Lindé describes Agnetha Fältskog as a very happy person looking forward to her comeback. “Indeed she does. She thinks this is all very fun.”
