In this new feature we will have a look at those ten ABBA years. What was ABBA doing this week in 1981 or 1974? Did they travel for promotion? Were they on tour? Or were they recording for a new album? You will find it out in this feature!
This week in... 1976
It was in this week, 29 years ago, that ABBA released their most famous single ever: Dancing Queen!
The song was already recorded the summer before in 1975, at the same time as Fernando and another demo called I Want You (parts of it would later surface in Does Your Mother Know). When it was time to release a new single in early 1976 ABBA wanted Dancing Queen to be the next single. Even Frida remembered that she cried when Benny brought the backingtrack to their house to let Frida hear it. However Stig Anderson thought that Fernando should be released first and therefor it took another 5 months before the public could finally obtain a copy of Dancing Queen. The song was already familiar to the public, since ABBA had performed it on an Australian and a German TV show and, more importantly, ABBA performed Dancing Queen at the wedding reception for the Swedish king and queen. Incorrectly, people thought that Dancing Queen was especially written for that occasion.
When released (with That's Me as a B-side) it became ABBA's biggest hit to date. It stormed to number one almost everywhere. Even the USA couldn't resist Dancing Queen, although it took some time before ABBA had their first and only US number one hit. It finally peaked at number one for one week in April 1977.
These days Dancing Queen is the song that is associated mostly with ABBA and today people continue to dance to the beat of the tambourine on dancefloors around the world
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