Having hunted Abba singles throughout this year, I thought I'd seen most of them by now, but then I found myself bumping into this rarit...

The Swedish supergroup Abba is back on this blog, with a Japanese single no less. This is an interesting one, because it couples 'S.O.S...

Like I wrote recently , the French do things differently, and that applies to this release of Abba's 'Fernando' as well. The Dut...

It's no surprise that the Old Gold series would end up releasing an Abba single. And this one presents two excellent songs: 'Knowing...

The French have a way of doing things differently, and in the record business, that's no exception. Various Abba singles were released w...

In 1982 Abba released their 'last' single, 'Under attack'. In the UK the single was also released as a picture disc - and a ...

After the recent influx of Abba picture discs in my collection, I suddenly realized that the band also released a few picture discs back in ...

Although war crept in to some Abba tracks from time to time (most notably 'Waterloo' and 'Fernando'), the feeling of paranoi...

After a short break, Abba returned to the studio in the spring of 1982. The first results were deemed disappointing: the tracks 'Just li...

'Head over heels' was released in March 1982 as the second single from the album The Visitors .  Agnetha Fältskog sang the lead voca...

At the start of the 1980s, Abba was slowly falling apart. After the divorce of Björn and Agnetha (which some felt was documented in 'The...

'Lay all your love on me' was not intended to be a single but after a remixed version gained popularity in nightclubs, the song was...

I've always viewed 'Super trouper' as an Abba-by-numbers track. Sure, the melody is there and the vocals are spot on, but the ly...

Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson started writing 'The winner takes it all' in the summer of 1979 in a cottage on the island of Vig...

The extended dance remix of 'Voulez-vous' on this 7" single was originally released on a promotional 12" single in the USA...

Although 'Voulez-Vous' was definitely the most recognized song of the two, this single was originally conceived as a double A-side, ...

Perfect for that end-of-year melancholy feeling, 'I have a dream' was released a few weeks before Christmas 1979. The song was writt...

Some were surprised when the song 'Does your mother know' featured lead vocals by Björn Ulvaeus, after so many singles with female l...

One of the songs recorded by Abba during sessions for their album Voulez-Vous was the syrupy ballad 'Chiquitita'. It's one of t...

'Honey Honey' was released as the second single from Abba's second studio album, Waterloo , after the success of the title track...