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The Day Before You Came (1982, Single)

The final song ABBA recorded was released as a single – by then, mid-1982, not many cared, and “The Day Before You Came” struggled for chart attention. By 2010, when ITV ran a schedule-filling show called The Nation’s Favourite ABBA Song, only “Dancing Queen” and “The Winner Takes It All” rated higher. There is something about this long, strange, monotonous, chorus-free ABBA song which gets to people. Me too – when “The Day Before You Came” landed at #3 on that junk ITV chart I punched the air and yelled.

Wrapping up my One Week One Band stint with 900 words - fair warning - on “The Day Before You Came”.

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    What strikes me about this is how fundamentally different this is from something like, say, “I’m a Marionette” (which...
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    this other than Tom Ewing writing...writing, crucial writing.
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    A fantastic end to a fascinating week of ABBA. Thank you Tom and thank you OWOB!
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    Week One Band stint...900 words - fair warning -
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