Super Trouper is the seventh studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA, first released in 1980. It features the N. singles "The Winner Takes It All" and "Super Trouper". The album became the biggest-selling album of 1980 in the UK. Led by the international hit "The Winner Takes It All", Super Trouper was the group's sixth chart-topping album in the UK. It was also the best-selling album in Britain for 1980.
Super Trouper" had been written as a last-minute addition to the album and it even re-used the chord structure of "The Winner Takes It All" - yet it was almost as successful in the charts as "Winner"
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Probably due to the disco backlash of the time, the album saw ABBA returning to a more straightforward pop sound, as opposed to the preceding (and noticeably more dance-oriented) Voulez-Vous album. The album closed with The Way Old Friends Do, which was recorded live a year earlier during their 1979 concert tour.
Commercially, Super Trouper, ABBA's seventh album, was another worldwide blockbuster. The Winner Takes It All," its lead-off single, released several months in advance of the album in most territories, was a smash; for example, it was the group's 14th consecutive Top Five hit in the . and their eighth number one there. The title track was also a British chart-topper (their last), as was the album, their sixth. Lay All Your Love on Me" made the .
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The Piper" is a 1980 track off the Super Trouper album by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song is loosely based on the famous story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It is regarded by some ABBA fans as being very different from the more mainstream songs they had recorded until this time. In particular, the dark lyrics dealing with the seduction by fascistic leaders and a somewhat medieval sound (drums, flute, choral) are not seen in their earlier songs. It is also the only ABBA song where a part of the refrain is in Latin. The song has gained a small cult following among ABBA fans
