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Release Date
30 November 1981
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Length
9 tracks
With The Visitors, ABBA took several steps away from the "lighter" pop music they had recorded previously and the album is often regarded as a more complex and mature effort. The Visitors album was one of the first records to be recorded and mixed digitally, and was the first in history to be manufactured on the new CD format in 1982 on Atlantic. The Visitors has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times—first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set. The Visitors is the eighth studio album by Swedish pop group ABBA, released on 30 November 1981.
The Visitors Deluxe Edition was released on 23 April 2012. As with previous releases in the Deluxe Edition series, this version of ABBA’s final album offered a DVD of archive material along with CD bonus tracks – including the demo medley ‘From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel’, the first previously unreleased ABBA recordings since 1994.
Side one
1. "The Visitors" 5:49
2. "Head over Heels" 3:45
3. "When All Is Said and Done" 3:20
4. "Soldiers" 4:38
Side two
5. "I Let the Music Speak" 5:20
6. "One of Us" 3:55
7. "Two for the Price of One" 3:36
8. "Slipping Through My Fingers" 3:51
9. "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room" 3:25
Total length: 37:39
ABBA
Anni-Frid Lyngstad – Lead vocals (1, 3, 5, 9) Backing Vocals
Agnetha Fältskog – Lead vocals (2, 4, 6, 8) Backing Vocals
Björn Ulvaeus – acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin, Lead vocals (7), Backing Vocals
Benny Andersson – synthesizers, keyboards, Backing vocals
Additional personnel
Ola Brunkert – drums
Rutger Gunnarsson – bass, mandolin
Janne Kling – flute and clarinet
Per Lindvall – drums (on "Soldiers" and "The Visitors")
Åke Sundqvist – percussion
Lasse Wellander – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
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