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ABBA constituted two married couples who later divorced. Similar to the group's 1980 track, "The Winner Takes It All", which could have been influenced by the split between band members Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog, "When All Is Said and Done" detailed the divorce between Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson.
Agnetha Åse Fältskog KVO1kl (born 5 April 1950), known as Agnetha Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋˈnêːta ˈfɛ̂ltskuːɡ] ⓘ) and Anna Fältskog, [1] is a Swedish singer, songwriter and a member of the pop group ABBA.
By 1979, ABBA's popularity grew at its peak, but the group started to show some tensions, eventually leading to the breakup of both couples. [5] [3] The divorce and the perceived fame had resulted Fältskog to go to a psychiatrist, realising that being "really crazy to reach that stage" while being in the group seemed "nonsense".
Recording began on what was to become ABBA's eighth studio album on March 16, 1981. [11] By this time, tensions in ABBA had heightened. Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog had divorced in July 1980, while the band's other couple, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, announced their divorce in February 1981, adding strain to the musical partnership.
ABBA [a] were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad.They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, [3] and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
Agnetha Fältskog of legendary Swedish pop group ABBA has relaunched her solo career with a new single.
PopDose says "'Helen' took an adult look at divorce and single motherhood in a time when the divorce rate was up and the traditional family unit was taking a beating. At first, the lyrics seem a bit judgmental, until you get to that last bit in the chorus where the girls assure the newly single mother that she can, in fact, make it alone".
ABBA were spending less and less time together. Going through her divorce from fellow band member Benny Andersson, Frida had heard Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight", and then "listened to the album non-stop for eight months". As Collins himself put it in a TV interview: "Frida and I had something in common as far as our divorces were concerned.