Supergroup ABBA released eight albums. The Visitors was there last in 1981.They sold 400 million albums worldwide and they never had one sell less than The Visitors.
Benny and Frida (the brunette) had just divorced a month before entering the studio for their final album. It's a dark album. Full of synths and ominious and less-cheery lyrics. ABBA had finally written grown-up lyrics about heartbreak and those moments when the tunes just don't sound too well.
If it's an consolation to Benny, Frida would later marry a prince. At least she moved up socially.
There are two ABBA albums on the 1,001 list, the other being Arrival, which is full of hits. The Visitors really had none. If you have a "greatest hits" knowledge of the group, then The Visitors is probably a pretty foreign group of songs. It's a piece of history because for one of the most popular and well-sold groups in music history, this is the one that most people have never heard.
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