Outtakes from the music video for ’The Winner Takes It All’ filmed in 1980

Outtakes from the music video for ’The Winner Takes It All’ filmed in 1980

 

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The Winner Takes It All

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Winner Take All: Inside ABBA’s Final Yearshe

 Artice►Winner Take All: Inside ABBA’s Final Years

One former music exec reflects on the significance of his favorite song by the Swedish supergroup

February 18, 2020 Carey Budnick

When I met with the members of ABBA in 1976, presenting them with a Gold Record Award for album sales, it was more a PR stunt than a social exchange.

It was two years earlier, during preparation for an album release of what I hoped would be the best 12 songs entered in that year’s Eurovision Contest, that I first heard the demo of Waterloo. It was so strong and different that I was confident the group would become stars. We immediately entered an exclusive agreement with ABBA’s agents: Polar Music, to manufacture and market the ABBA catalog releases for the next several years. As this was before the group won the Eurovision contest, it was kudos for me within CBS Records, the company I worked for before it became as absorbed by Sony Music.

Carey Budnick presents a gold record to Bjorn and Frida of ABBA

“Waterloo,” the Swedish entry for 1974, was ABBA’s second attempt at gaining recognition beyond the Swedish border. More specifically, songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus set out to create a song that could chart in the UK. If you listen carefully, it sounds like they paid a lot of attention to the previous summer’s UK number one glam rock single: “See My Baby Jive“ by Wizard.

Time-jumping to now, forty years later. I am old enough to pay attention to the story the lyric was telling in the song “Winner Takes It All.” The words which a sad-eyed blonde Agnetha sang described a bitter, miserable ending of her marriage to guitarist Bjorn. She seemed devastated by it. When the song was first released, we all danced to it and sang it but never thought about the lyrics.

I began to find the breakup stories of the two couples making up ABBA in the lyrics which Bjorn had been writing for years. From ONE OF US to MAMA MIA to KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU. The songs tell of the tension and heartbreaking toll the two couples went through during their final years as a performing group. They remained together to record and perform as long as they could after they had split up as couples.

I was deeply moved when listening with new ears as Agnetha sang WINNER TAKES IT ALL. The music to their songs was so light and catchy. I am annoyed at myself for missing the melancholy undertones when I heard them in the past. Even the joyful DANCING QUEEN can be understood as having a double message. Of an older woman who can no longer make the scene, enviously watching the 17 years old having the time of her life.”

Bjorn once said: “I think I wrote ‘Knowing Me Knowing You’ before the divorce. In many ways, Agnetha and my divorce was an amicable one, we just grew apart and decided let’s split up. Benny and Frida’s was a little more difficult. It was not a happy time but still very creative.”

By 1980, Bjorn and Agnetha would file for divorce. A deeper read into the lyrics of “Winner Takes It All” seems to lay it all out on the line.

I was in your arms

Thinking I belonged there

I figured it made sense

Building me a fence

Building me a home

Thinking I’d be strong there

But I was a fool

Playing by the rules

But tell me does she kiss

Like I used to kiss you?

Does it feel the same

When she calls your name?

Somewhere deep inside

You must know I miss you

But what can I say

Rules must be obeyed

Bjorn wrote this after separating from wife Agnetha. “It’s about a divorce where one person doesn’t want to separate and clings desperately to the marriage. It put Agnetha in the strange spot of being asked to sing a breakup song, written by her ex-husband… It was strange hearing her singing it. It was more like an actress doing something when she sang it, but deeply moving. Afterward, there were a few tears as well”)

Bjorn has said that while he usually didn’t use drugs or alcohol while writing, he had a bottle of brandy next to him while writing the lyrics for this song. It was very personal to him. He told the London Times in 2010.

….Bjorn claimed that 90% of this song is fiction, which is why he didn’t feel too bad about having his ex-wife sing it.

Agnetha told The Mail in May 2013 this is her favorite ABBA song: “Björn wrote it about us after the breakdown of our marriage. The fact that he wrote it exactly when we divorced is touching really,” she explained. “It was fantastic to do that song because I could put in such feeling. I didn’t mind sharing it with the public. It didn’t feel wrong. There is so much in that song. It was a mixture of what I felt and what Björn felt, but also what Benny and Frida went through.”)

In 1981, Benny and Frida would divorce, and in 1983 ABBA disbanded altogether. Their press release at the time stated, “They went on a long indefinite break”

According to sources, the marriages came apart while the couples tried and failed to stick together coping with the existential changes their sudden worldwide fame put them through. Bjorn and Benny were perfectionists, both as composers and producers. There was always another take. Another bow, Another tour. Tempers behind the scenes were often fraying. One overlooked part of their split was that the sudden influx of a great deal of money made each of them independently wealthy and so less dependent on the other. They mentioned that the Beatles also cite their newfound wealth as one reason they were able to split. Each of them had enough money for a lifetime.

Agnetha was always worried about leaving her young children behind when they went on tour. She also feared flying after their private jet was tossed around in the air on the way to Boston, and she had a breakdown after landing. The pressure to continually pretend she was happy and content, to be known as the sexy blonde lead singer in ABBA, was wearing her down.

Within weeks of his split from Agnetha, Bjorn was seeing another woman he soon married. Explained Bjorn speaking about the end of his marriage to Agnetha:

“To clear things up, once and for all, when you talk to someone like I talked to Agnetha, and you honestly try to discuss things, solve your problems, and you don’t succeed, then you know it’s time to call it a day. So that’s what we did. But we didn’t give up on our marriage easily or quickly. It took two years before we eventually agreed to get a divorce. First, we went to a psychiatrist, and he helped us to discuss our problems in an honest way. At the end of those two years of continuous talks, we were completely sure that we were making the right decision, believe me. There was no tension, but of course, there were tears. What do you expect, we had been together for thirteen years!”

Frida had a troubled childhood, and although she was a party girl, she had left her first husband to care for their children, and the guilt was a heavy burden. In his excellent Abba biography, Carl Magnus Palm quotes Frida as saying,

“I don’t know exactly what went wrong. Maybe it was the strain of working together, never having time for our private life. We were never able to sit down as two individuals and decide what we wanted from our lives. It was a mixture of everything…Abba took a great part of our lives.”

Many Frida fans blamed Benny, because he apparently had started a relationship with another woman, Mona Norklit, several months before the divorce was announced in February 1981.

The entity known as ABBA has sold more than 380 million records worldwide since 1974. You might say that the entity known as ABBA was the winner that took it all.

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THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

The Winner Takes it All SUBTITULOS

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AGNETHA: THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

Abba ingresa en el Salón de la Fama del Rock - ABBA The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

ABBA inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Agnetha, Frida, Benny and Bjorn CONGRATULATIONS!!!

ABBA: Frida and Benny into RRHOF, 15 March 2010

GRACIAS a Pepe por enviarme este  video con subtítulos en español!!

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Marzo 15, 2010 Benny y Frida aceptan ingreso a nombre de ABBA en el Hotel Waldorff-Astoria de Nueva York

Muy emotivo dicurso!!



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Faith Hill performs "The Winner Takes It All", with Benny Andersson on piano, at ABBA's induction
into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, 15 March, 2010.


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with love, CONGRATULATIONS!!

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ABBA Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame! 2010 Benny and Frida Aftonbladet


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ABBA: Acceptance speeches of Frida and Benny into RRHOF, 15 March 2010

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Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame 2010 Artist Interviews Benny and Frida ABBA



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The Winner Takes It All
AGNETHA


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http://rockhall.com/inductees/abba/bio/

Agnetha Fältskog (vocals; born April 5, 1950),

Benny Andersson (keyboards; born December 16, 1946),

Björn Ulvaeus (guitar; born April 24, 1945),

Anni-Frid Lyngstad (vocals; born November 15, 1945)

ABBA rose out of Sweden in the Seventies to become one of the most successful and beloved pop groups in music history. Their success gave a more international flavor to popular music, broadening it beyond the English-speaking countries of origin. ABBA truly was an international phenomenon, topping charts and breaking records in England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia. For a few years ABBA ranked second only to automaker Volvo as Sweden’s biggest money-making export.

The group has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. In the U.K. alone, these Swedish superstars charted 19 Top 10 singles (including nine that went to Number One) from 1974 to 1982. America proved somewhat more impervious to ABBA mania, as the group cracked the U.S. Top 10 only four times and hit Number One exactly once (with "Dancing Queen," in 1977). However, America got belatedly on board when the "jukebox musical" Mamma Mia!, based on the songs of ABBA, became a Broadway sensation. In December 2009, it became the 12th-longest-running Broadway show in history as it closed in on its 3,400th performance. Mamma Mia!, which premiered in London in 1999, has played around the world to an estimated 40 million people. A film version and accompanying soundtrack were released in 2008. All of this further fueled ABBA mania, which remains in high throttle three decades after the group’s breakup in 1982.

The seeds for ABBA’s decade of infectious, effervescent pop were sewn in 1966, when Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus met. The two were already rock stars in Sweden, where Björn played guitar with the Hootenanny Singers and Benny was keyboardist with the Hep Stars (referred to in their homeland as "the Swedish Beatles"), They made some records as a duo, using the name Björn and Benny. In 1972 they recorded one of their songs using Björn’s wife, Agnetha Fältskog, and Benny’s wife-to-be, Anni-Frid Lyngstad ("Frida," for short), as backing vocalists. Cut in a studio in Stockholm in March 1972, "People Need Love" was credited to "Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid," as the ABBA acronym had not yet been devised. (Technically, the first "B" in ABBA is backward, according to the band’s copyrighted logo.) "People Need Love" became a Swedish hit and was issued in America on Playboy Records (an offshoot of the magazine), which peculiarly amended the credit to "Björn and Benny (with Svenska Flicka)" – meaning "Swedish girl."

ABBA’s breakthrough came in 1974, when their song "Waterloo" won the Eurovision Song Contest. It topped the charts in many countries, including Britain, and even hit Number Six in the U.S. With its ringing harmonies and surging melody, "Waterloo" recalled the tuneful, high-energy songs of the girl-group era and the British Invasion at a time when infectious pop songcraft was in short supply. There was much more to come from ABBA in this vein. A year after the success of Waterloo," they scored again with "SOS," reaching Number Six in the U.K. and Number 15 in the U.S. ABBA became a fixture on the world charts.

Their mounting success resulted in sustained chart feats of Beatles-like proportions. Over a six-year period, from late 1975 through early 1972, ABBA released 17 consecutive singles that placed in the U.K. Top Five. Eight of those were Number One hits: "Mamma Mia," "Fernando," "Dancing Queen," "Knowing Me Knowing You," "The Name of the Game," "Take a Chance on Me," "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper." The singles "Does Your Mother Know" and "I Have a Dream" just fell short, reaching Number Two. Four others stopped at Number Three:

"Money, Money, Money," "Angeleyes/ Voulez-Vous," "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man after Midnight)" and "One of Us." All are driven by the soaring, harmonized lead vocals of Agnetha and Anna-Frid and the songwriting and production of Björn and Benny.

From 1975 to 1980, ABBA spent 35 weeks atop Britain’s album charts – a feat equaled by no one. By contrast, the group only topped the American album and singles charts once: in April 1977, when "Dancing Queen" hit Number One for a week. For this reason, as Billboard wrote, "the members of ABBA consider America to be their only failure." Even so, they placed 20 songs in the Hot 100 and have seen eight of their albums certified gold or platinum by the RIAA.

In fact, much of ABBA’s American success came belatedly, after their 1982 breakup. Internal tensions stemming from the divorces of the two couples recalled similar turbulence within Fleetwood Mac during the making of that band’s Rumours. Agnetha and Björn separated in late 1978, and Benny and Anni-Frid split up in early 1981. They recorded their final album, The Visitors, before disbanding in 1982. Benny and Björn thereupon set about working on the musical Chess with Tim Rice, while Agnetha and Anni-Frid embarked on solo careers. ABBA has never regrouped.

An ABBA revival in the Nineties was sparked by the incredible success of Gold – Greatest Hits, which has sold 26 million copies worldwide, including six million in the U.S. A comprehensive box set, Thank You for the Music, was released in 1994. The musical Mamma Mia! came at the end of the decade and carried the ABBA revival into the new millennium. In 2002, Universal Music remastered and reissued ABBA’s eight studio albums in expanded versions. An even more exhaustive box set, The Complete Studio Recordings, appeared in 2005. With ABBA’s 2010 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, ABBA mania will continue for years to come.

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UN GRUPO SIEMPRE PRESENTE
Abba llegó al Salón de la Fama
Se separaron en 1982, pero sus hits perduraron en la voz de otros cantantes, el cine y el teatro. Ahora forman parte de la selección del rock. Fotogalería.
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16.03.2010


Benny Anderson y Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ex miembros del cuarteto que inmortalizó hits como Mamma Mía o Chiquitia, asistieron a la ceremonia que posibilitó el ingreso de la banda al famoso museo en Cleveland. (EFE)

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Los suecos de Abba pertenecen desde este martes al ilustre círculo de celebridades musicales que integran el Salón de la fama y del rock and roll, en el que figuran grandes nombres como Elvis Presley, los Beatles, los Rolling Stones, James Brown, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Queen o U2.

Benny Anderson y Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ex miembros del cuarteto que inmortalizó hits como Mamma Mía o Chiquitita, asistieron a la ceremonia que posibilitó el ingreso de la banda al famoso museo en Cleveland (Ohio), que celebra la obra de más de 600 representantes del mundo de la música.

Este acto supuso el reencuentro de los dos cantantes, que se casaron en 1978 y se divorciaron en 1981, un año antes que la banda decidiera disolverse definitivamente. Los otros dos miembros de Abba, Björn Ulvaeus y Agnetha Fältskog, que también fueron pareja, no estuvieron en la ceremonia ya que la relación entre los distintos ex compañeros no es la mejor.

El grupo parece estar rodeado de una magia especial, ya que a pesar de que desde 1982 no volvieron a grabar juntos, sus pegadizos temas quedaron en la memoria colectiva de un público que lo sigue acompañando y que gracias a otras celebridades del rock pudieron ampliar fronteras. Por ejemplo a fines de los´80 Erasure lanzó un EP con versiones electrónicas de sus canciones, el cual llegó a la cima de las listas británicas en la primavera de 1992.

El cine también fue culpable de su omnipresencia ya que dos producciones australianas, Las aventuras de Priscilla, reina del desierto y Muriel's Wedding, reinstalaron al grupo en lo más alto del reconocimiento del público allá por los noventa.

En el teatro también fue suceso, sobre todo con la obra escrita por Benny y Björn que fue estrenada en 1999 y vista por más de 30 millones de espectadores en todo el mundo acompañada luego por su posterior adaptación cinematográfica, protagonizada por Meryl Streep y Pierce Brosnan que a pesar de no haber conseguido muy buenas críticas obtuvo gran repercusión.

Los integrantes de la banda, que grabó ocho discos de estudio, siempre aseguraron que jamás volverían a reunirse a pesar de que cada reedición o recompilación que ofrece la discográfica dueña de los derechos de la música es un verdadero éxito. "Se separaron en 1982, pero los álbumes de homenaje al grupo y el éxito del musical Mamma Mia los mantiene permanentemente expuestos", dijo un portavoz del Salón de la Fama, quizás este sea uno de los argumentos para que, amén de no subirse a los escenarios, siga siendo una banda de culto.

OTROS RECONOCIMIENTOS. Once son los nuevos miembros del mítico museo, entre ellos la banda británica Génesis, el grupo de rock estadounidense The Stooges, liderado por Iggy Pop, y el cantante de reggae jamaiquino Jimmy Cliff.

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Här skriver Abba musikhistoria igen
NEW YORK. När Benny satte sig ner vid flygeln strax efter klockan fyra i morse skrev Abba ny musikhistoria.
För första gången hade icke engelskspråkiga artister valts in i prestigefyllda Rock hall of fame i USA.
I salongen jublade Frida, lika stolt och glad som sin exmake.
- Det här är jättehäftigt. Vi är så stolta, säger båda till Expressen i natt.

Över 30 år har gått sedan storhetstiden. Och alla medlemmarna har lagt Abba åt sidan. Med nattens ceremoni gjorde den svenska succcégruppen ett nerslag i nutidshisorien.
– Det är ett oerhört fint erkännande. Jag är stol och hedrad. Det känns mycket speciellt, säger en avslappnad och Benny till Expressen några timmar innan han tog plats på scenen inför 100-tals andra pop- och rockstjärnor.
Benny spelade ”The winner takes it all”, tillsammans med ett tiomannaband under ledning av Paul Shaffer (David Lettermans bandledare) och flerfaldigt Grammy-belönade Faith Hill.
"Otroligt att vara här"

En lång rad artister underhöll, bland andra Eric Burdon från Animals, ett band jämngammalt med Hep Stars där Bennys karriär började.
– Sett ur ett Hep stars-perspektiv är det otroligt att vara här i natt, säger Benny.
– Men framförallt är det ett erkännande att vår musik har inspirerat andra. Precis som vi har inspirerats av så många i det här gänget, säger Benny och nämner namn som Chuck Berry, Beach Boys, Bee Gees, och Lennon/McCartney.
– Möjligen saknar jag mina klassiska inspirationskällor, Schubert och Bach, skrattar Benny.
– Tänk vilka fantastiska pop- och rockikoner som är invalda i Hall of fame. Och tänk på alla låtskrivare som inspirerat oss under åren, de är också med i det här gänget. Stort.
Gillar Kraftwerk

Benny Andersson kan inte förklara varför Abbas musik står sig fortfarande.
– Jag vet faktiskt inte. Om någon har ett bra svar - ring mig!
I går hade Benny en trevlig pratstund med bröderna Barry och Robin Gibb, som i natt installerade Abba och presenterade Frida och Benny.
– Vi har ju inte setts på 31 år. Otroligt roligt att träffa dem igen.
Benny känner det som en speciell ära att Abba är första icke anglosaxiska artisterna som blir invalda. På frågan om det finns några andra som kan platsa nämner han tyska Kraftwerk.
– De förtjänar en plats här, tycker han.
"Agnetha lika stolt som jag"

Annifrid Lyngstad, som valde att hålla sig salongen i stället för att uppträda i natt, säger till Expressen at det är överväldigande att ha valts som kvinna.
– Lite research visar att vi är 25 kvinnor av cirka 180 medlemmar. Agnetha hälsar och säger att hon är lika stolt som jag.
Det tog tid för Abborna att fatta sig egen storhet. Först när de alla satte sig ner, ett par decennier efter uppbrottet, och sammanställde första Abba-boxen förstod de vad de skapat.
– I dag har jag mod att säga att jag är stolt över Agnethas och min prestation, backade av Björn och Benny förstås, säger Frida, som ibland blir lite nostalgisk och lyssnar på de gamla låtarna på nätterna.
Frida pratar också om sina förebilder i Rock hall of fame. Nämner Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight med flera.
– Samt allra mest Dusty Springfield, tillägger hon.
Roxette skulle platsa

Hon kan tänka sig få sällskap av fler svenskar i det illustra sällskapet. Tycker att Roxette nog skulle kunna platsa.
Frida avslöjar också, lite hemlighetfullt, sina musikaliska planer.
– Jag sjunger ihop med en musiker på en platta som kommer så småningom.
Mer om detta spännande projekt fick Expressen inte veta vid pratstunden på Waldorf Astoria strax före konserten i natt.
Dessutom hade allt fler Abba-fans hittat oss och det var dags för halva Abba att smyga undan och förbereda sig för nattens musikfest.
Att Abba skulle stå på scen tillsammans igen finns inte på kartan för någon av dem. Den svenska succégruppen håller regelbunden kontakt och Frida och Benny hade roligt i vimlet på det klassiska New York-hotellet. Ivrigt uppvaktade av fans som köade för autografer och bilder.
Kommande musikfester med Rock hall of fame tackar Benny gärna ja till.
– Om jag blir bjuden. Och om de behöver nån vid pianot, säger han med ett ödmjukt leende.



Av Peter Suneson
peter.suneson@kvp.se
http://www.expressen.se/noje/1.1919225/har-skriver-abba-musikhistoria-igen

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL BY MERYL STREEP

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EN YOUTUBE

Swedish pop band ABBA's song "The Winner Takes It All sung by Meryl Streep from the 2008 movie musical "Mamma Mia!" Beautiful cinematography
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_PcNbhVOjw

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EN METACAFE
TITULOS EN INGLES
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2648537/meryl_streep_the_winner_takes_it_all_from_mama_mia/

TITULOS EN ESPAÑOL
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2679728/song_from_mama_mia

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VER: ABBA THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL


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THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL




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VIDEO AND INFO: abbafanglosuk
Abba visited Paris on October 21-22 1980 to appear on the Stars tv show at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent, which was broadcast on October 25. They performed The Winner Takes It All and Super Trouper after host Michel Drucker interviewed famous Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, who asked Frida a couple of questions at the end.
The Winner Takes It All was recorded on June 6 1980, and had the working title "The Story Of My Life". It was released as a single on July 21 1980. It reached #1 in Belgium (2 months), Ireland, South Africa, Holland and UK and made the top 10 in another 14 countries. It was voted Britain's favorite break-up song in 2006.
Bjorn went home with a tape of the backing track to write the lyrics. The layers of French chanson suggested something melodramatic and emotional. On this night Bjorn opened a bottle of Scotch whisky and drank freely during the writing process. "I was drunk" he recalled "and the whole lyric came to me in a rush of emotion in one hour". Tears flowed in the recording studio after Agnetha recorded her lead vocal. She called The Winner Takes It All "the best of all Abba songs. The lyrics are deeply personal, and the music is unsurpassed. Singing it was like acting a part. I mustn't let my feelings take over. It was quite a while afterwards before I realised that we made a small masterpiece."
Benny recalls "As a melody its the simplest ever. There are only two different melody lines in it that are repeated throughout the whole song, and yet I think we managed to avoid a feeling of repetition. The song includes a lot of emotion and their is a counterpoint thing going on with the vocals in the backing track. That's the Brian Wilson influence. Counterpoint harmony, thats what the Beach Boys did all the time and what I always liked a lot."
Bjorn admits the lyrics were inspired by the heartbreak with Agnetha, but says the basis of the song "is the experience of a divorce, but it's fiction. There wasn't a winner or a loser in our case. A lot of people think it's straight out of reality, but it's not". The couple decided to separate in late 1978, and Agnetha moved out of their home on Christmas night December 25 1978. In January 1979 they filed for divorce, which was finalised in June 1980.
Agnetha and Bjorn explained the situation in an exclusive interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen on January 16 1979.
Agnetha: "What has happened only concerns the two of us. There's no point talking about what went wrong with our marriage. The fact is that Bjorn and myself can no longer live together."
Bjorn: "Its important to say this is an amicable divorce, if you can call it that. In the beginning it was all very romantic and we were in love. But after we got married bit by bit we began to move apart. Our tastes and opinions started to differ more and more. We thought that a second child would bring us closer together.
Agnetha: "Christian doesn't know about what's going on because he's too young but Linda understands. In the end the three of us sat down to talk about it. Its almost a month since we separated and I think she prefers to see that her two parents are happier now. And anyway I only live 7 minutes away from Bjorn. The news isn't a surprise to Benny and Frida because they're close to us and see how we work."
Bjorn: "Its not very nice to talk about all this in public. Which is why we won't be talking about our divorce any more in the future like we have done here. Its important that we stress that Abba is not going to break up. The group means so much to us."

Music / Lyrics: Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus
Lead Vocal: Agnetha

I don't wanna talk
About the things we've gone through
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play

The winner takes it all
The loser standing small
Beside the victory
That's her destiny

I was in your arms
Thinking I belonged there
I figured it made sense
Building me a fence
Building me a home
Thinking I'd be strong there
But I was a fool
Playing by the rules

The gods may throw a dice
Their minds as cold as ice
And someone way down here
Loses someone dear
The winner takes it all
The loser has to fall
It's simple and it's plain
Why should I complain

But tell me does she kiss
Like I used to kiss you
Does it feel the same
When she calls your name
Somewhere deep inside
You must know I miss you
But what can I say
Rules must be obeyed

The judges will decide
The likes of me abide
Spectators of the show
Always staying low
The game is on again
A lover or a friend
A big thing or a small
The winner takes it all

I don't wanna talk
If it makes you feel sad
And I understand
You've come to shake my hand
I apologize
If it makes you feel bad
Seeing me so tense
No self-confidence

But you see
The winner takes it all
The winner takes it all

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THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL



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