- Year of release
- 1976
- Global sales
- 8 million
- Genre
- Pop
- Buy this album
- Download | Buy CD
In the year that punk gripped the public imagination, the nation's best-selling record was the fourth album by Sweden's pop super-troupers, a worldwide smash that included their most famous and enduring song.
Best tracks:
Dancing Queen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Money, Money, Money
Top facts:
- The front cover features our four heroes inside a helicopter - said chopper is actually a Bell 47, the first helicopter designed specifically for civilian use.
- All three of the singles lifted from the album (Fernando was released earlier in the year and only included on Antipodean versions) have all lived on in other spheres. Dancing Queen was the theme song to hit Australian movie Muriel's Wedding. Knowing Me, Knowing You became the catchphrase of failed DJ Alan Partridge in the television series, while Money, Money, Money is used, somewhat unimaginatively, as incidental music in an estimated 38.6% of financial features running on news programmes (probably).
- Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson claim that the inspiration for Dancing Queen came from Queen Silvia, who married King Gustaf XVI of Sweden in 1976. DJ Chris Evans was quoted as saying that Queen Elizabeth told him at a Windsor Castle event that "I always try to dance when this song comes on, because I am the Queen and I like to dance". And Chris never lies, obviously.
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