Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus and actor Ian McKellen recently shared their now annual Christmas video where they pretend to knit the Christmas jumpers that are available from the band’s merch store. This year they’ve upped their game by also hawking Abba socks.
There are four pairs of socks featuring a cartoon face of each member of Abba on offer. For their new video, the wholesome duo put one of each on their feet and make them dance to ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)’.
Delightful! What fun! Who wouldn’t want to buy a pair after seeing that? I suppose anyone who baulks at the idea of spending £35 on four pairs of socks. But if you’re not one of those people, then knock yourself right out.
Fun fact: the video on YouTube also offers “special thanks” to Kylie Minogue for no obvious reason. I mean, no obvious reason other than that you should always give thanks to Kylie in everything you do. This article - and all of our articles - are also written with special thanks to Kylie Minogue.
Actually, the Minogue connection makes more sense if you’ve seen another of Ulvaeus and McKellen’s festive videos. In that, Minogue calls and asks them to knit some stagewear for her upcoming Las Vegas residency. So presumably her thank you on two subsequent videos is a copy and paste error. That’s less fun though. Thanks Kylie!