>>>>I'm no fan of ABBA really (along with most of the USA) - but they did sell A LOT of albums overseas and prolly deserve to be in the hall of fame..
>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/15/rock.hall.of.fame/index.html
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>>>For example name any other band that was offered one freaking billion dollars for a reunion tour... and rejected it...
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>>The Beatles??? (although they prolly wanted to pay Ringo less than the other 3...)
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>I am not sure if the Beatles got a billion dollars offers for a reunion, but even if it happened, that is not bad company at all, from the popularity point of view.

Well...probably not a billion bucks - but I'm sure they must of got some crazy offers....but like you said - not bad company.

There was an interesting article a while back on cnn... http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/04/beatles.999/index.html
One of the things the article said was: ...."A Pew Research survey released last month showed that 81 percent of respondents between ages 16-29 said they liked The Beatles. Eleven percent said they dislike the band and only 4 percent said they have never heard of them.
By comparison, current rockers Coldplay received 39 percent positive responses, with 45 percent saying they'd never heard of them. Forty-two percent said they like hip-hop star Kanye West.
"To put this in perspective: Try imagining young adults back in the 1960s putting the big jazz bands of the roaring '20s at the top of their list of favorites," the survey reads. "Not very likely."......"