Music News – Tuesday, April 20

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Ace Showbiz says the members of ABBA are working hard to develop their likenesses for their hologram tour. Bjorn Ulvaeus says, ”The band members were photographed from all possible angles and made to grimace in front of cameras. They painted dots on our faces, they measured our heads. We are really good friends and we see each other quite often. Being together in the studio again, it was so familiar. It all came rushing back in seconds. We had fun. You have to have fun.”

Elton John tells NPR.org that he became a musician simply because he loves music. “Well, you know, a lot of rock musicians go into rock music to pull girls. That was never my motive. I just wanted to play music. I was so obsessed with music, nothing entered my head apart from that.”

LUKE BRYAN told People that COVID-19 didn’t knock him down as hard as it could have, but he’s feeling very “blessed” to be on the other side.  He said he “didn’t have a long set of symptoms” but there were a tough couple of days.
Luckily, his wife was there to help.  Quote, “There were times when Caroline was nursing me back, so I was certainly amazed to move through that.”
In a different interview he opened up about his self-quarantine.  Quote, “I put myself in a part of the house and stayed away from my boys.  I didn’t want them to miss school so [one of the hardest things was] not being able to hug my kids.”
Missing the family is one thing, but NOT being on TV, that was a living hell.
Quote, “It was really, really tough not being [at ‘American Idol’].  That was the toughest part of quarantine.  It was really tough for me to have to miss out, but I was honored and amazed that Paula [Abdul] stepped in for me.”