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To: WesternCulture

I think I read something a few years back that some promoter was trying to get them to do a reunion tour.

He was pretty serious about it, and offered them a couple bucks.

Rumor was he offered them a guaranteed BILLION DOLLARS.

They declined.


23 posted on 02/06/2009 12:00:25 PM PST by djf
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I surmised at the time that the reason ABBA declined was that after having to pay the extremely high Swedish taxes, they have another 90% tax on top of that on rich people. After all taxes they wouldn't have made much.

Lived next to the town of Abha Saudi Arabia. Around town we would occasionally see signs mistranslated into English as ABBA. I wonder how many were done on purpose by the translator as a joke.

26 posted on 02/06/2009 12:20:04 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: djf

“Rumor was he offered them a guaranteed BILLION DOLLARS.”

- Yes, according to Aftonbladet (Scandinavia’s largest daily newspaper), they were offered this sum to re-unite back in 1999. However, Aftonbladet wrote it was an American-British consortium that made the offer, not a single promoter.


28 posted on 02/06/2009 12:27:51 PM PST by WesternCulture
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