Knowing Me, Knowing You

October 11, 1976

Knowing Me, Knowing You is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA from the year 1976. The piece has a playing time of four minutes, and the lead vocals were sung by Anni -Frid Lyngstad. It was first published on ABBA's fourth album Arrival and coupled in February 1977 as the last single from the album.

Formation

The song was the first that was recorded in the recording sessions for the album Arrival on 23 March 1976. The guitar overdubs were added on May 25. Knowing Me, Knowing You ABBA was the first song that dealt with the theme of " broken relationship ". Later ABBA songs like The Winner Takes It All, One of Us, and When All Is Said And Done deal with the same subject. Before Stig Anderson delivered the final title, came the working titles: Ring It In or Number One, Number One in question. Björn Ulvaeus said of the lyrics written by him:

" Even if that is rooted deep within you and is based on something that you have experienced, the lyrics are still 90 percent fiction. I have worked only with pictures. I saw this man in front of me going for the last time through his empty house - a symbol of divorce. I just described what I saw. Personally, I had not yet gone through. "

The B- side of the single, Happy Hawaii ( earlier version of Why Did It Have to Be Me? ) Was in some countries replaced by other ABBA songs, such as in Hungary and Italy by Money, Money, Money.

Achievements

With the single Knowing Me, Knowing You ABBA again landed a number -one hit in the UK and a Top 15 hit in the United States. In Belgium and Ireland, the single was in the top 5; in Germany, the Netherlands, Mexico and South Africa, she also reached number 1 in Australia could Knowing Me, Knowing You do not mention the first time in more than a year, the charts but only reached # 9