Polar/UMeA 2014 archival ABBA live album that features an entire performance recorded on November 10, 1979, at the final show of a six-concert residency that the Swedish pop legends played at London’s Wembley Arena will be reissued as a three-LP vinyl set on March 13.
Live at Wembley Arena captured the group performing near the end of its last U.K. tour while promoting its then-latest studio album, 1979’s Voulez-Vous. The album is packed with renditions of ABBA’s biggest hits, including “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Chiquitita,” “Money, Money, Money,” “SOS,” “Fernando,” “The Name of the Game,” “Take a Chance on Me,” “Does Your Mother Know,” “Dancing Queen” and “Waterloo.”
The record also features Agnetha Fältskog delivering a rare performance of “I’m Still Alive,” a song she co-wrote with her ABBA band mate and then-husband Bjorn Ulvaeus that never appeared on any of the group’s studio albums.
The three-LP edition of Live at Wembley Arena was mastered at London’s famed Abbey Road Studios at half-speed, which results in higher-quality audio. It can be pre-ordered now.
Here is the track list of the Live at Wembley Arena vinyl reissue:
LP 1:
Side A
“Gammal fäbodpsalm”
“Voulez-Vous”
“If It Wasn’t for the Nights”
“As Good as New”
“Knowing Me, Knowing You”
Side B
“Rock Me”
“Chiquitita”
“Money, Money, Money”
“I Have a Dream”
LP 2:
Side A
“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”
“SOS”
“Fernando”
Side B
“The Name of the Game”
“Eagle”
“Thank You for the Music”
“Why Did It Have to Be Me”
LP 3:
Side A
“Intermezzo No. 1”
“I’m Still Alive”
“Summer Night City”
“Take a Chance on Me”
Side B
“Does Your Mother Know”
“Hole in Your soul”
“The Way Old Friends Do”
“Dancing Queen”
“Waterloo”
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