The Day Before You Came and Cassandra were released as the autumn single, while Under Attack and You Owe Me One were released as the winter single. The LP which The Day Before You Came was attached to, the double disc overview The Singles: The First Ten Years, had given the quartet their eighth and final No.1 album as a working entity, but it was patently obvious that the days as a mighty hit making machine were over for this Nordic colossus that had completely dominated the pop world in the second half of the Seventies.ĪBBA’s 1982 recording sessions for a projected ninth studio album yielded six completed songs, recorded in two batches of three with a couple of months’ break in between. And the collective taste arbiters decided that there would be a stay of execution for ABBA while Adam And The Ants and Duran Duran really got into their stride, but eventually the Swedes were indelibly marked with a Best Before label cf Nirvana and the grunge explosion that took off in 1991. As is often the case with the musical landscape after the turn of the decade, there were signs that the changing of the guard would be post-dated by a year or two. For the first time since I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do in 1975, an ABBA single failed to reach the Top 10 in the UK, stalling at number 25.įor the band viewed the British chart as an indicator of what was hot and what was not, and the signals were suggesting lukewarm at best. The chart prophet of doom had a field day when the previous 45, Head Over Heels, was issued early that March. But after the awesome foursome went on hiatus in 1983, an English synth duo helped to change all that with their version of what many regard as the last ‘true‘ ABBA song.Įxcise Erasure, because in 1984 it was Blancmange who became the first notable act to have a hit with an ABBA tune, taking The Day Before You Came a creditable ten places higher in the British charts than the original had managed. There once was a time when it was beyond uncool to like ABBA, and covering their songs was certainly not on many artists’ agenda.
Still blonde, still beautiful and still singing (now and then), the ABBA singer, was born on 5 April 1950 i n Jönköping in the south of Sweden.Ī whole half-century after the fabber four released their first recordings, there’s one Agnetha ‘solo’ vocal in particular that’s so poignant, so perfectly nuanced, that it’s a masterpiece of melodrama rivalled only by The Winner Takes It All in the heartbreak stakes.Ī landmark single released on 18 October 1982, this is The Day Before You Came. Few platinum pop artists got to experience the ups and downs of huge superstardom like “the girl with the golden hair” Agnetha Åse Fältskog.
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