When All Is Said And Done

November 30, 1981

When All Is Said And Done is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA from the year 1981. It first appeared on the last studio album of the group "The Visitors " and was coupled out in December 1981 in some countries as a single, with the also included on the album Should I Laugh Or Cry piece occupied the B-side. The lead singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad is, in some passages and the chorus is also Agnetha Fältskog hear

Genesis

The first Backing Tracks for When All Is Said And Done were recorded 16 to 19 March 1981. So the song is one of the first that was recorded for the album, when he was repeatedly edited and mixed in the course of the following recording sessions. According to the text authors Björn Ulvaeus, the song is dedicated in a certain way, the two group members Benny Andersson and Anni- Frid Lyngstad, who were divorced on 12 February 1981. Lyngstad could therefore be miteinfließen some emotion in their vocal performance.

The song was recorded on 24 November 1981, shortly before release of the album, also called " No Hay A Quien Culpar " in Spanish. While the music video for the original version already on August 29, 1981, turned those found for the Spanish version a few days after admission, on November 27 place in 1981. In February 1982, No Hay A Quien Culpar was presented by a Spanish television special for the first time the public, although the program was recorded in Stockholm. On CD this language version appeared in 1994 as part of the ABBA box set Thank You For The Music.

Chart positions

The single When All Is Said And Done has been published among others in the United States, where she joined in January 1982 in the charts and reached place 27. There she also served a little later issued Single The Visitors ( Crackin 'Up ) as a B- side, which reached number 63. The song (# 29), Costa Rica (# 1 ) and Poland addition appeared in Australia (# 81 ), Mexico (# 9) as a single, where it was however quite moderately successful on average.