ABBA will release their first new music in four decades, along with a concert in which the “Dancing Queen” quartet will have a fully digital version.

The next album “Voyage”, to be released on November 5, follows 1981’s “The Visitors”, which had been the Swedish group’s last production so far. A virtual version of the band will begin a concert series in London on May 27.

“We took a break in the spring of 1982 and now we decide it is time to finish it,” ABBA said in a statement Thursday. “They say it’s unwise to wait more than 40 years between albums, so we recorded a post-‘The Visitors’ project.”

The group has created a live hologram show, using motion capture and other techniques, with George Lucas’ special effects company, Industrial Light & Magic.

They describe it as “the rarest and most spectacular concert that has ever been dreamed of.”

“We will be able to sit in the audience and watch our digital versions perform our songs,” the group said in the statement. “Weird and wonderful!”

The show led to the creation of the album, which features the new songs “I Still Have Faith In You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down.” It began with sessions in 2018, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The show will come 50 years after the founding of the group, which consisted of two married couples for most of its existence, and whose name is an acronym for the names of its members: Agnetha Fältskog, 71, Björn Ulvaeus, 76, Benny Andersson, 74, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 75.

Their music remained ubiquitous in the decades since their split in part over the stage musical “Mamma Mia!” and the two films that followed.

ABBBA was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

Last week the group launched a site with the title “ABBA Voyage” in preparation for the announcement. Tickets for the show will go on sale Tuesday.

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