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The basic aim of the "People Need Love" single was not to promote the quartet, since all four individuals had other commitments and did not have the time to form a permanent group (an example of this is the crediting; the single in most of the territories is credited to "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid"), but to promote the "Björn & Benny" duo, which was the singing and songwriting ...
On his book Abba – Uncensored on the Record, John Tobler said the song "appeared to be much more personal than many of the group's previous songs". [1] The Sydney Morning Herald said "The King Has Lost His Crown" is "an interesting song with some neat variations in style". [2]
Carl Magnus Palm has also confirmed that the verse included in the "ABBA Undeleted" medley is in fact the second verse of the song. [28] [32] It was released on October 22, 2021 for the album Voyage, two weeks before the album release. Benny recorded a new backing track with drums and guitars, but the vocals are from the 1978 version. [33]
The Leader-Post explains that the song is about "our pathetic love-starved hero answering an ad for the girl of his dreams". [2] The song's lyrics describe a male custodian answering a personal ad for two women seeking a threesome, until the final punchline which reveals that one of the women is the other one’s mother, not revealing whether the mother is just an intrusive chaperone or if the ...
ABBA recently received five Grammy nominations for their reunion album, Voyage, which was released in November 2021 to rave reviews. It was the group’s first record of new material in 40 years. ...
In February 2020, saxophonist Ulf Andersson, who toured with ABBA in the late 1970s, revealed that name-checking Glasgow was a coded love note from Björn Ulvaeus to then-wife Agnetha Faltskog. "It was a personal thing between Bjorn and Agnetha," he told the Scottish Mail on Sunday. "Björn was in Glasgow for some ABBA promotion.
Kensington Palace’s former head gardener recounted stories of Diana, Princess of Wales singing Abba songs and jogging past staff, after attending the “incredible” unveiling of her statue.
In 1998, an ABBA tribute group was formed, the ABBA Teens, which was subsequently renamed the A-Teens to allow the group some independence. 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.