ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus admits it might all be over when it comes to the band being together publicly. However, emerging technology – much like their touring digital avatars in the ABBA Voyage show – may be the way forward for fans of the Swedish pop icons.

For those of you who are still heartbroken that ABBA didn’t make a surprise appearance at this year’s Eurovision, there’s some more bad news coming your way.

Band member Björn Ulvaeus has stated that ABBA may never make another public appearance together ever again.

On the Rosebud With Gyles Brandreth podcast, Ulvaeus revealed that the pop icons’ latest appearance together for their Swedish knighthood may have been their last public get-together.

The band received the Royal Vasa Order from King Carl XVI Gustaf of the Swedish royal family for their contribution to music last month.

Ulvaeus revealed that he and his bandmates had realised it might have been “the last occasion” that all four members would be together in public.

“We stood there quietly, accepting it out of the king’s hand and him saying a few words, it was a very quiet and very elegant ceremony. All four of us of course we there.”

When asked by host Gyles Brandreth if the group often meet each other, Ulvaeus replied: “In public very rarely, and Frida (Lyngstad) said to me afterwards, ‘This might be the last occasion.’ Very sad, and I thought about that afterwards, but we’re not getting any younger.”

The band’s members are Björn Ulvaeus, 79, Agnetha Fältskog, 74, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 78, and Benny Andersson, 77.