Bjorn Ulvaeus told Reuters on Monday (December 5) that ABBA had no intention of regrouping. “We believe that what we did then was pretty good,” he explained. “But after, we felt that the energy was running out toward the end of the 1970s, we decided, why should we do a Rolling Stones or a Queen?” Asked whether the new box set of ABBA’s complete studio recordings, featuring nine CDs and two DVDs, would be ABBA’s last commercial offering, he replied: “Absolutely … If you ask me, yes.”

Oasis star Noel Gallagher tells Channel 4′s ‘Music Hall Of Fame’ he’s a closet fan of ABBA. “I wish I’d written ‘SOS’, ‘Waterloo’ and fu**ing ‘Super Trouper’,” he admitted. “They were up there with the best. Abba was a sh** name for a group though.”

Four years ago, Abba were offered one billion dollars to re-form. The answer was “No.” But what if that figure doubled? “No, not even if you did that,” 58-year-old Bjorn Ulvaeus told Reuters. “It is never going to happen again. I think it is a bit too long now. We split up in 1981. People haven’t seen us as a group since then and it would come as such a disappointment to them.”