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Most ABBA songs were written and produced by Benny Andersson (right) and Björn Ulvaeus (left), with lead vocals most often handled by Anni-Frid Lyngstad (centre left) and Agnetha Fältskog (centre right). ABBA's manager Stig Anderson co-wrote several of the band's songs' lyrics. ABBA wrote the song "Hovas vittne", privately released for the ...
"The Name of the Game", first called "A Bit of Myself", was the first song to be recorded for ABBA's fifth studio album, following the band's European and Australian tour. It was their most complex composition yet – with Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad sharing the lead vocals but with solo passages from both women – and contained ...
The group's first album, The ABBA Generation, consisting solely of ABBA covers reimagined as 1990s pop songs, was a worldwide success and so were subsequent albums. The group disbanded in 2004 due to a gruelling schedule and intentions to go solo.
ABBA's biggest hit singles worldwide are "Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", with Arrival being their biggest hit studio album. [ 3 ] The compilation album Gold: Greatest Hits (1992) is the second best-selling album of all time in the UK [ 2 ] and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
A Swedish country band called Nashville Train (which included some of ABBA's own backing band members) covered the song in 1977 on their album ABBA Our Way, released on the Polar Music label in Sweden. The very first single released under their 4 first names and in the same year, 1972, a cover version was released.
ABBA perform parts of the song live in the 1977 film ABBA: The Movie. The Australian film Muriel's Wedding (1994), features "Waterloo" in a pivotal scene in which lead Toni Collette bonds with the character played by Rachel Griffiths. The film's soundtrack, featuring five ABBA tracks, is widely regarded as having helped to fuel the revival of ...
Ring Ring was first released on CD in Scandinavia in 1988 by Polar Music alongside Waterloo and ABBA's self titled album. It follows the same running order as the original Scandinavian LP, being the only CD of this album to do so. [15] Also in 1988, the international version was first released on CD in Australia by Rainbow Music Group. [16]
"The Winner Takes It All" is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. Released as the first single from the group's seventh studio album, Super Trouper (1980), it is a ballad in the key of G-flat major, reflecting on the end of a relationship.