To most ABBA followers, “The Winner Takes It All” is the right breakup track. What some do not know is that the authenticity stemmed from the band’s real-life scenario.
In ABBA: AGAINST THE ODDS, a documentary on the Swedish band premiering on Saturday, Might 11 on CW, viewers are taken again to 1980 for the making of certainly one of their largest hits — and understand how exhausting it was on the band to carry out it.
“One factor we discovered was that all the pieces begins with a track,” Björn Ulvaeus, 79, says within the documentary. “I feel nice music is created from the human expertise. Deep feelings. Writing a lyric is one thing in between a poem and a melody. It will conjure up not solely a temper — however photographs generally in me.”
Ulvaeus introduced the lyrics for “The Winner Takes It All” in the future within the studio and the band was immediately linked to it. On the time, Ulvaeus had lately gone by means of a divorce with Agnetha Fältskog — with whom he welcomed daughter Linda Elin, now 51, and son Peter Christian, now 47 — after seven years of marriage.
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“I’m a really a lot feeling individual and I actually tried to place my life expertise and my emotions, all the pieces, on this track,” Fältskog, 74, says.
Ulvaeus provides, “Going by means of divorce is tough as anybody would know who’s finished it. That was after all taking over my ideas. However there was not one winner within the case of us.”
“The Winner Takes It All” was featured on their wildly profitable Tremendous Trouper album in 1980. The identical 12 months they launched the album, the wedding of Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson started to crumble they usually determined to half methods.
“It wasn’t simply the music. It was additionally love. It was a life lived collectively. In some way all 4 of us,” Lyngstad, 78, says, as Andersson, 77, provides, “That was highly effective. One in all our greatest I feel.”
Although the band managed to maintain issues skilled amid their relationship troubles, it immediately bought too tough to carry out the track.
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“We might really feel that the track had immediately bought a bit heavy. It was not so enjoyable anymore to file. There was one thing within the ambiance. A bit tragic,” Fältskog says.
Ulvaeus provides: “We had an explosive story and artistic interval… after which it stopped.”
The band parted methods in 1982, with Fältskog admitting it was too exhausting to maintain the band going. In 2022, the band made a uncommon crimson carpet look collectively for the premiere of their digital live performance sequence, which was in assist of the band’s studio album Voyage, their first launch in 40 years.
ABBA: AGAINST THE ODDS, directed by James Rogan, explores the journey of affection, battle, fame and epic songs that’s ABBA.
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