When the backing track arrangement of an ABBA song was worked out in the studio, Björn would usually be singing demo lyrics – any old phrases that came into his head – since he didn’t want to write proper lyrics until the final musical arrangement suggested the “mood” of the song to him. And in 1996, he produced Frida’s solo album Djupa andetag (“Deep Breaths”). “Rutger had the idea that his bass line in the choruses should be the same as the vocal melody, and then things started getting off the ground: we felt, ‘Yes, that’s it’.”Īnders Glenmark may have been a temporary stand-in for ABBA’s most frequently used guitarists, Lasse Wellander and Janne Schaffer, but he would continue his association with the ABBA members: that’s him you hear singing the choruses on Murray Head’s ‘One Night In Bangkok’, one of the hit singles from the 1984 musical Chess, which Björn and Benny wrote with Tim Rice. As he recalls, they had been playing for hours without quite getting it right, when the bass player provided the vital key. Glenmark would remember how impressed he was by Björn and Benny’s attention to detail, not settling for the first arrangement idea that came to mind, but working and working until they got it exactly right. On guitar, however, was Anders Glenmark, making a one-off contribution to an ABBA recording. Benny was on piano and the two musicians that played on more ABBA tracks than anyone else, Rutger Gunnarsson and Ola Brunkert, were there to contribute bass and drums, respectively. The recording of ‘Money, Money, Money’ began on at Metronome Studio in central Stockholm. “It’s pretty straightforward and it’s got some kind of tension in it, as a tune.” As he would find out when the song was released as a single the following month, many people agreed with him that it was a top tune, sending it to number one in six countries and the Top Three in a further four. “It’s a very basic recording,” he continued. Of all the things we’ve done, that one is the best ever.” Upon release of ABBA’s Arrival album in October 1976, that was Benny Andersson’s verdict of ‘Money, Money, Money’, one of the tracks on the album. We look back on one of ABBA’s biggest singles, where they showed that you could let yourself be inspired by all sorts of musical influences – and still come out with a major hit.
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