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"Our Last Summer"
Song

Our Last Summer is a song by ABBA from the group's seventh studio album, Super Trouper. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Recording for this track began on 4th June 1980 in Polar Music Studios. [1] The song features Anni-Frid Lyngstad on lead vocals and her time in the studio during the recording is captured in a series of photographs taken by Anders Hanser. [2]

In the background of the bridge to this song, during Lasse Wellander's guitar solo, part of the Chess song, 'Anthem' can be heard. Andersson and Ulvaeus had been working on the melody for Anthem for a number of years but had never found a place for it in any ABBA project. When they finally came to use it in the musical Chess they hoped that no one would notice that part of it had already been used in Our Last Summer. [3]

Ulvaeus found lyrical inspiration for this song in a memory of a romance he had had during a visit to Paris as a teenager. [4]

Cover versions

  • British singer Hazell Dean recorded a cover for her own ABBA tribute album.
  • Swedish teen pop group A*Teens covered the song for their debut album The ABBA Generation in 1999.
  • The song is used in the musical Mamma Mia! and the lyrics provided the writer of the storyline, Catherine Johnson, with the name of one of her characters - Harry. The song is sung by the characters Harry and Donna and is one of only two album tracks to be used in the musical.

Notes

  1. ^ Magnus Palm, C: "ABBA The Complete Recording sessions", page 98. Century 22 Ltd, 1994
  2. ^ Magnus Palm, C et al: "From ABBA to Mamma Mia!", page 84-89. Virgin Publishing Ltd, 1999
  3. ^ Magnus Palm, C: "ABBA The Complete Recording sessions", page 99. Century 22 Ltd, 1994
  4. ^ Ulvaeus, B et al: "Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?", page 104. Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2006



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