Express. Abba’s famous blonde Agnetha Faltskog takes a chance on pop comeback

In what is potentially one of the greatest musical returns of all time, Abba’s golden girl Agnetha Faltskog has teamed up with Take That’s Gary Barlow for a duet.

Agnetha, now 62, also collaborated with Britney Spears’s Swedish songwriting team for her first album in nine years.

Agnetha’s single When You Really Loved Someone is out now. Her album, A, follows later this year and the star hopes the album will lay to rest the image the public has of her.

She said: “I’m very earth-grounded and very normal, I just like to stay at home. “I have been described as a very mysterious human being and that hurts a little bit, because it’s not like that at all,” she adds.

The new musical project began two years ago, when Swedish producer Jorgen Elofsson rang her doorbell hoping to play Agnetha three songs he had written for her.

The hit composer, who penned Britney Spears’s Crazy and Kelly Clarkson’s Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You), said his dream was to coax Agnetha back into the studio.

She said: “It was flattering. It really was. I just couldn’t say no. I really loved the songs from the beginning.”

As a band, Abba have sold more than 380 million albums around the world and they are still one of the most popular bands to download of all time on music sites like Apple’s iTunes and Spotify.