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Release Date
3 November 1980
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Length
10 tracks
Super Trouper is the seventh studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, released on 3 November 1980. It features the No.1 singles "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper". The album became the biggest-selling album of 1980 in the UK.
Overview
Led by the international hit "The Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper was the group's sixth chart-topping album in the UK. It was also the best-selling album in Britain for 1980. Super Trouper was first released on CD in 1983 by Polar Music International, in the early 1980s by Polydor, and in the late 1980s by Atlantic Records for the US. The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form four times; first in 1997, then in 2001, again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set and as a Deluxe Edition (containing a bonus DVD) in 2011.
The previous year's divorce between Björn and Agnetha was explored in "The Winner Takes It All", and the members' lives in Stockholm high society circles coloured the lyrics for "On and On and On". Other well-known songs on the album include the hit single title track "Super Trouper", as well as the electro-dance of "Lay All Your Love on Me".
Probably due to the disco backlash at that time, the album saw ABBA returning to a more straightforward pop sound, as opposed to the preceding (and noticeably more dance-oriented) Voulez-Vous album. The album closed with "The Way Old Friends Do", which was recorded live a year earlier during their 1979 concert tour.
Track listing - All tracks written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus except where noted.
Side one
1. "Super Trouper" 4:13
2. "The Winner Takes It All" 4:55
3. "On and On and On" 3:41
4. "Andante, Andante" 4:38
5. "Me and I" 4:53
Side two
6. "Happy New Year" 4:37
7. "Our Last Summer" 4:18
8. "The Piper" 3:25
9. "Lay All Your Love on Me" 4:33
10. "The Way Old Friends Do" (Recorded live at the Wembley Arena, London, November 1979) 2:53
Total length: 41:53
1997 CD edition bonus tracks
11. "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" 4:53
12. "Elaine" 3:44
13. "Put On Your White Sombrero" 4:34
ABBA
Anni-Frid Lyngstad – Lead vocals:(1, 4, 5, 7) Co Lead Vocals (3, 8, 10, 13)
Agnetha Fältskog – Lead vocals (2, 6, 9) Co Lead Vocals (3, 8, 10)
Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, Backing vocals
Benny Andersson – synthesizers, keyboards, Backing vocals
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