Arrival

It's super impressive, the records that they have musically.

The recording of their next album, Arrival, happened in fits and starts.

They wrote and recorded only one day a week, usually spending their other time recording and playing for other bands.

In a lot of ways, they were still considered studio musicians.

Well, and to your point, this is how they were able to get so much of the like creative juices going and stuff like this.

It was on this island where Fernando – it's Fernando, but they say Fernando – and Dancing Queen were written.

So Benny and Bjorn, the songwriters, much like what you're saying, Norm, credit this isolation of either being in the studio or on this island to the success of their album Arrival.

They were, quote, oblivious to latest trends and were able to write timeless pop songs.

G'day everyone and thanks for tuning in to today's episode of Music From A Lifetime, the podcast where I offer you new thoughts on old albums and an old person's thoughts on new albums.

On today's episode I'm going to take a look at the album Arrival by ABBA, the band's fourth studio album released on October 11, 1976.

Ignition! Who'll

see that girl, watch that scene, digging the dancing queen? Friday night and the lights are low, looking out for a place to go.

Reports of the time suggest that the anticipation for the new album was immense.

The popularity of the band had exploded further with the release of Fernando as the standalone single, and the world was waiting impatiently to see if they could come up with anything that might rival it as a song.

It is fair to say that they were more than satisfied when ABBA released their fourth studio album titled Arrival.

If I got me a wealthy man, I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball.

My two, and this will give you a chance to talk about it because one of mine... is in fact Dancing Queen.

So this one was actually originally released on the album Arrival in 1976.

It has over 2 billion with a B streams on Spotify.

It's their only number one hit in the US.