ABBA Reunite To Receive Highest Royal Honors From Sweden

As the Prince of Wales celebrates his 42nd birthday on Friday, 21 June, he will surely be treated to lots of sweet hugs and presents from his young family after a very difficult few months. While the list of what to get or make their father for his special day must be endless, someone who took great pleasure in embarrassing William with gifts was Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Refused have cancelled their final festival performance in Sweden due to frontman Dennis Lyxzén suffering from “a massive heart attack”.The Swedish punk band originally announced the news in March, stating they would be playing at Stockholm’s Rosendal Garden Party on Friday, June 14 alongside Turnstile, M.I.A and others.However, Lyxzén took to social media to announce their festival appearance was cancelled. On Instagram, Lyxzén took a photo of himself in a hospital bed, explaining he had “a massive heart attack at my hotel room” that morning, calling it “extremely painful and wildly scary.”“Thanks [to] the wonderful doctors and nurses at the Uppsala hospital I’m still around to fight another day,” he added.

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ABBA reunited for an appearance at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, where they were given the Royal Vasa Order, a Swedish knighthood.All four members – Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog and Benny Andersson – were in attendance last Friday (May 31) at the country’s Royal Palace, accepting the honour from King Carl XVI Gustaf for their “very distinguished contributions within Swedish and international music life.”Per The Associated Press, the Royal Vasa Order is one of the most prestigious knighthoods in the country, and it was handed out for the first time in almost 50 years.The knighthoods were awarded during a solemn ceremony at the Royal Palace’s Vita Havet Assembly Rooms. The monarch handed them the order in a red box while a diploma was given to them by Queen Silvia.”The order you get today is Sweden’s thanks for your exceptional efforts,” the monarch said, as reported by The Associated Press.ABBA have not performed live together since 1982, although they have made sporadic public appearances together – including the unveiling of their ABBA Voyage show in 2022.Last Monday (May 27), Ulvaeus and Andersson participated in a Q&A session on a night that celebrated the second anniversary of ABBA Voyage.The two ABBA members entertained the idea of the Voyage live band performing at Glastonbury.

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic ABBA fans had not necessarily expected to see the group together again after previous statements that they had no further plans to reunite after recording a 2021 comeback album. But the prospect of being knighted brought all four members back together again Friday in their native Sweden, as they showed up at the royal palace in Stockholm to be honored by the king and queen.

One of the biggest bands in pop music have reunited, more than 40 years since their last performance.The four members of ABBA gathered together to receive knighthoods in Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf. Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad became Commander of the First Class of the order for "very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life".

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Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has opened up on the chances of the band getting back together for one final show – see what he had to say below.Earlier this month, Ozzy Osbourne revealed that he would “jump at the chance” to play a final Black Sabbath show with co-founding drummer Bill Ward, who backed out of playing the band’s reunion shows between 2011 and 2017 over an “unreasonable” contract.Now, Butler has chimed in on Osbourne’s desire for a final Black Sabbath performance with their original line-up, telling SirisuXM‘s Eddie Trunk that he and Osbourne have “agreed” to play one last show.As transcribed by Blabbermouth, Butler said: “Of course there’s an interest [on my part to do it], but there’s a big ‘but’ — you’d have to speak to Bill [Ward] about it. Everybody wants to do it [but I don’t know if he is] capable [of pulling it off].”Butler added: “Ozzy was hoping to finish it all off next year back in Aston, at the Aston Villa [football stadium in Birmingham].

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Tony Iommi has responded to Ozzy Osbourne‘s recent plea to play one final Black Sabbath show.Earlier this month, the frontman admitted he would “jump at the chance” to play a final Black Sabbath show with drummer Bill Ward. He dropped out of their planned reunion in 2012 citing an “unreasonable contract”.