A new exhibition will tackle the rise of pop sensation ABBA - in the context of "grim" 1970s Britain.
ABBA: Super Troupers will take place at the Southbank Centre, located just next to the station which shares the name of one of the band's biggest hits - Waterloo.
Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad have given their seal of approval to the "immersive" show.
"This show will be in the context of the socio-political situation in the 1970s and how Abba rose to fame during quite a grim time for the UK," Paul Denton, producer at the Southbank Centre, said.
"We're looking at what was special about ABBA and why they rose to prominence. I think they really like that.
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"During the 1970s there was a three-day working week, a hung parliament and economically Britain was quite poor. ABBA were seen as quite exotic creatures from Sweden.
"Obviously their music is what carried them through, their music caught the hearts and imagination of people. But this sets the scene."
The exhibition will have no labels or text and will feature objects from private archives, as well as from the Abba museum in Stockholm.
Unseen archive material will include some of Abba's original costumes, handwritten notes and sketches which the band created together, personal photographs, music and instruments.
