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Agnetha is one of those characters, isn't she, one of those people who have too much integrity for the world.

I hope she doesn't get forced back into the liimelight. I like the mystery, she harks back to the seventies, when, as my colleague Si put it this morning (apropros of Led Zep) it was possible to be incredibly famous whilst not being very much in the public eye.

You're getting all this conventional wisdom wheeled out, that the comeback album is going to be a commercial disaster and Warner Bros are going to be out of pocket, just because she's not going to do the Parkinson show.

I don't see this at all. People will buy the record because it's by her, and because she is so mysterious. People who love mystery don't watch Parkinson, in my opinion.

In other news, the BBC were reporting a Korean death toll of 150-something at lunchtime. Though it might turn out to be one person blown into 150 pieces. Oh, and it wasn't a train collision, but an attempt to move dynamite-laden carriages from one train to another interfacing with live electric cables.