Agnetha Fältskog

Agnetha Fältskog (2013)

Agnetha Fältskog [ Anneta fɛltskuːg ] (* 5. April 1950 in Jönköping as Agneta Faltskog Åse ) is a Swedish singer and composer. Between 1967 and 1975 she released five solo albums, most of the songs of which she composed herself, and became one of Sweden's most famous singers. She became world famous in the 1970s as a member of the pop group ABBA , which was founded in 1972 and dissolved in 1982. This was followed by three more solo albums before Fältskog withdrew from the public for many years at the end of the 1980s. Fältskog was awarded the SKAP 2013 Kai Gullmar Memorial Award by the Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers for her past, present and future work.

biography

Childhood and Adolescence (until 1967)

Agnetha Fältskog was born as the first of two daughters of the department store manager Knut Ingvar Fältskog and his wife Birgit Margareta Johansson. Her sister Mona was born in 1955. At the end of the same year, organized by her father, she stood on stage for the first time at the age of six. A short time later Fältskog began to play the piano and composed his own songs, the first at the age of six. At the age of 13 she founded the vocal trio The Cambers with two school friends . After several occasional appearances by the group in parks, variety theaters and at parties, it broke up after about two years. After completing compulsory schooling in 1965, Fältskog left school and worked in the office of a car company in Jönköping as a telephone operator.

In the summer of 1966, a dance band called Bernt Enghardts orkester was looking for a replacement at short notice after the original singer Agneta Desilva had left the band. The founder, Bernt Enghardt, became aware of Fältskog and welcomed her participation not only because of her singing talent, but also because of the similarity of the name with her predecessor - so no new posters had to be printed, but simply pasted with Fältskog's picture. On September 17, 1966, she made her debut in the band. In addition, she continued to compose her own pieces, including Jag var så kär (“I was so in love”), which was added to the repertoire of Bernt Enghardt's orkester a few months later .

Solo career (1967–1972)

In the spring of 1967 the group produced a demo tape with a few songs, including several compositions by Agnetha Fältskog, which they sent to producer Karl-Gerhard Lundkvist ("Little Gerhard") from the Cupol record label. He was particularly impressed by Utan Dej ("Without you") and contacted Fältskog a short time later. In October 1967 she was invited to the Philips Studios in Stockholm to record two of her songs. She soon got a recording deal and her first single was released in late November 1967. However, she remained a member of Bernt Enghardt's dance band. On January 10, 1968, Fältskog appeared on television with Jag var så kär and a few weeks later the single became the number one hit in the sales charts. The record company also tried to establish it on the German market.

In early May 1968, Fältskog traveled to Berlin to record two songs in German that were written by the composer Dieter Zimmermann , who was very impressed by her as a singer. Shortly afterwards she traveled back to Sweden and appeared on May 23, 1968 with the dance band in Målilla , southern Sweden , which also featured the nationally known Hootenanny Singers . It was here that Fältskog first met Björn Ulvaeus , the lead singer of this band, who she had already seen on her first television appearance at the beginning of the same year. A little later Fältskog went on tour for two weeks, accompanied by Dieter Zimmermann, to whom she became engaged on July 22, 1968. At the end of September she left Bernt Enghardt's band and moved to Stockholm. Further tours, singles and her debut album in late 1968 followed.

The engagement to Dieter Zimmermann was dissolved again at the beginning of 1969, as was the record deal with Metronome Records , as the hoped-for success for the German singles had not materialized. On May 4, 1969, the production of a TV special began in honor of the late pop composer Jules Sylvain, which was broadcast on August 16 and was hired for the Fältskog. Björn Ulvaeus also worked as a singer, who at that time had already become a sought-after teenage idol in Sweden. The shooting lasted a month in total and resulted in a liaison between Fältskog and Ulvaeus, who soon became a couple. The relationship quickly attracted national media interest, although Fältskog initially spoke out against working with her partner musically. Together they moved into a house on Lilla Essingen in Stockholm.

At the same time, Fältskog went on a solo tour again and released her next album Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2 at the end of 1969 . In April 1970 she traveled to Cyprus with Ulvaeus, his good friend Benny Andersson and his fiancé Anni-Frid Lyngstad , who also worked in the music business, where the two became engaged. After the four musicians had found musical similarities on this trip, they decided to a. to complete joint appearances. In addition, Fältskog worked with Lyngstad on some of Ulvaeus and Andersson's projects as a background singer. In September 1970 she recorded her third album Som jag är ("How I am") and was supported by her fiancé.

Ulvaeus and Fältskog were married on July 6, 1971 in the small town of Verum in southern Sweden. Over 3000 spectators and media representatives attended the celebration. In addition, Fältskog continued to write his own songs and at the end of the year released her fourth album När en vacker tanke blir en sång ("When a beautiful thought becomes a song"). With one exception, the album only contained original musical compositions. Around the same time she was invited to take on the role of Mary Magdalene in the Swedish version of Jesus Christ Superstar . The premiere took place on February 18, 1972 in Gothenburg .

The time at ABBA (1972–1982)

Agnetha Fältskog, 1976 in the Netherlands

Fältskog on tour in Rotterdam in October 1979

After working several times with Ulvaeus, Andersson and Lyngstad, Fältskog and her colleagues recorded their first official single as a group on March 29, 1972 ( People Need Love ) , which was released in June 1972. Since their bandmates also had other obligations on the side, the group did not initially form Fältskog's primary work environment. So she went on a solo tour again in the summer of 1972 and produced new solo singles from September while working with the group on the debut album. The track list consisted mainly of older and new songs by Ulvaeus and Andersson, but Agnetha Fältskog contributed her own composition (Disillusion) . The group also planned to take part in the Melodifestivalen the following year.

At the beginning of 1973, Fältskog was unable to take part in a promotion tour with her colleagues due to her pregnancy and was replaced by a friend. On February 23, 1973, she and Ulvaeus had their first child, Linda , which was reported in national newspapers. With the release of the first group album and the hit single Ring Ring , the young band's fame increased enormously in Sweden. Fältskog soon concentrated mainly on her work in the group, which was renamed " ABBA " in the summer of 1973 and which was soon successful beyond the country's borders. Together with her colleague Lyngstad, she soon took on the role of lead singer , whereby Fältskog's soprano voice and Lyngstad's mezzo-soprano complemented each other and became important for the development of the characteristic "ABBA sound".

After winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo , Fältskog became known worldwide with ABBA. The group albums broke sales records in Sweden, despite multiple criticism from the leftist Progg movement. In addition to the extensive engagements within the band, Fältskog produced her fifth solo album Elva kvinnor i ett hus ("Eleven women in one house") in 1975 , which was released in December. For the time being it was her last solo album. Due to the great commercial success of ABBA, Fältskog became a world star alongside her band mates and also the most popular member of the group. A journalist from the Swedish Expressen described her buttocks in an article in 1975 for the first time as the “tightest butt in pop”, whereupon she was repeatedly addressed in interviews and at press conferences in the following years.

The ever increasing popularity of ABBA and the associated changes in her private life led to repeated conflicts with her husband from the mid-1970s. While Fältskog wanted to spend as much time as possible with her daughter, Ulvaeus concentrated to a large extent on new compositions and working in the studio. The various obligations within the band also strained her a lot more than Ulvaeus. The two’s different views on life meant that from then on they grew increasingly apart. At the height of ABBA's career in 1976/77, the group's popularity had reached proportions previously unknown to a Swedish band. Above all, the rampant mass hysteria of the fans, especially on the tour through Australia , as well as the separation from her daughter, but also her fear of flying , which she repeatedly treated in vain, made traveling with the band difficult.

The artistic and media pressure meant that Fältskog repeatedly suffered from insomnia. After she and Ulvaeus moved into a new house in Lidingö in November 1976 , they had to move again the following year after incidents with intrusive fans had occurred again and again. At the same time, the work on the fifth ABBA album and the shooting of the ABBA film were extremely busy. Despite her second pregnancy, she worked up to 12 hours a day, which resulted in her near miscarriage in September 1977. In order to spare herself, she sang some of her vocal parts while lying down, for example Thank You for the Music . Their second child, Peter Christian, was born on December 4, 1977.

In early 1978, Agnetha Fältskog avoided the public for a few weeks. Despite the birth of her son, the marriage with Ulvaeus got more and more into a crisis, which was partly reflected in the songs of ABBA at the time (e.g. One Man, One Woman ). The two had private disputes in the studio, which also strained the collaboration in the band. In the summer of 1978 they tried to resolve their differences with the help of couples therapy. But even this step did not change their situation, so that a separation was already foreseeable in autumn 1978 - exactly at the time when their band colleagues Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson got married after a nine-year engagement. The decision was initially kept secret from the public. Fältskog and Ulvaeus didn't show anything on the promotional tours to Japan and Great Britain either.

On December 25, 1978, Fältskog and her children moved from their house to a nearby house belonging to their record label Polar Music , which was originally used to accommodate guests . The tensions with Ulvaeus then eased over time, especially when working together in the studio. They shared custody of their children by mutual agreement. When the news of the split was announced to the media in January 1979, journalists and fans around the world also speculated about a possible impending separation from ABBA. But Fältskog remained a member of the group and even said that the new conditions would have a positive effect on the current work of ABBA. Even so, the media kept trying to find out details about her divorce and possible new relationships, which she disliked.

Another major tour of America and Europe followed in the autumn of 1979 , when a serious incident occurred when the plane that was transporting Agnetha Fältskog got into a storm over the east coast of the USA and almost crashed. The event meant that she fell ill and the concert in Washington had to be canceled. The European part of the tour, on the other hand, was largely stress-free and confirmed the continued unbroken popularity of ABBA in Europe. Fältskog commented positively afterwards and said that she found it almost a little sad that the concerts were over. On the other hand, she continued to intend to pay more attention to her children than to her career. Her difficulty in finding a balance between work and private life persisted into the early 1980s.

After a last concert tour to Japan in March 1980, the band's activities were largely limited to working in the studio. Neither Fältskog nor her bandmates were interested in further promotional tours or live performances. In July 1980 the marriage with Björn Ulvaeus was divorced. In the Swedish film Raskenstam from 1982, Fältskog played a leading role as the betrayed wife of a provincial Casanova.

Solo career after ABBA (1983–1988)

After ABBA ended, Fältskog released several solo albums. In spring 1983 their first English-language album Wrap Your Arms Around Me was created in the Polar Studios in Stockholm , produced by Mike Chapman and released internationally on May 31, 1983. She hardly composed any more herself, but simply selected the songs for the album. The pieces ranged from rock (Can't Shake Loose) to 60s pop (Mr. Persuasion) to ballads ( To Love , Wrap Your Arms Around Me and others). With the song Man , only one of Fältskog's own compositions could be heard. The album sold around 1.2 million copies internationally.

The album Eyes of a Woman followed in March 1985 , produced by Eric Stewart and recorded in Stockholm from October to December 1984. It contained the single releases I Won't Let You Go, One Way Love and Just One Heart and was their last production for the Polar Music label . At the same time, the TV special A for Agnetha was shot to advertise the album. Here, too, the style of the songs varied. Fältskog wanted to avoid being seen as a woman singing ballads, lonely and eternally suffering, so he also recorded some energetic pieces like I Won't Let You Go and Save Me (Why Don't Ya) . The song The Angels Cry was composed by Justin Hayward , who also took part in the recording.

After her contract with Polar Music expired, she met the former singer of the band Chicago , Peter Cetera , who persuaded her to work with him on an album. In November 1987, the result of this collaboration was released on the WEA label, the album I Stand Alone produced by Cetera . It was recorded at Chartmaker Studios in Los Angeles and was the only production Fältskog ever recorded outside of Sweden. I Stand Alone is shaped by the West Coast sound of the late 1980s. The singles included were Let It Shine , The Last Time and the duet with Peter Cetera, I Wasn't The One (Who Said Goodbye) .

Fältskog's solo singles and albums weren't nearly as successful as ABBA's, but they managed to score top positions in Scandinavia, the Benelux countries and South Africa. In the large, important markets such as Great Britain, Germany, the USA or Australia, her publications were more in the middle of the hit lists. After a few last promotion dates for I Stand Alone in early 1988, Fältskog retired from the music industry for many years. From then on she lived with her daughter Linda and her family on their farm on Helgö in the municipality of Ekerö, west of Stockholm, consisting of several islands in Lake Mälaren .

Retired Years (1989-2012)

Agnetha Fältskog 2008 at the premiere of Mamma Mia!

After the divorce from Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog had numerous affairs and short-term relationships. Her second marriage in 1990 to the Swedish doctor Tomas Sonnenfeld was divorced at the end of 1992. She also had to deal with her mother's suicide in January 1994 and her father's death a year later. 1996 appeared in collaboration with the journalist Brita Åhman Fältskog's autobiography Som jag är (the title corresponds to that of her studio album of the same name from 1970). In Great Britain the book was published under the title As I Am , in Denmark as Som jed er and in German translation under the title Wie ich bin .

Between 1997 and 1999 Fältskog had a relationship with Gert van der Graaf from the Netherlands, who was then living in Sweden. He then repeatedly harassed Fältskog and even broke into their property. He was fined several times for stalking ; he had to pay damages, was arrested repeatedly, finally deported to the Netherlands (most recently in 2003) and was also banned from entering Sweden for a limited period.

In 1999, Fältskog read individual passages from her autobiography for the ABBA documentary The Winner Takes It All , which were recorded on tape and then included in the documentation. She was filmed walking through the Drottningholm Palace Gardens.

In 2004 Fältskog released another album after a 17 year hiatus. Entitled My Coloring Book , she sang cover versions of songs that had influenced in their youth. The first single If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind , an interpretation of a Cilla Black song, reached number 11 in the British charts in its first week of sales, making it the most successful solo alongside Anni-Frid Lyngstad's I Know There's Something Going On -Single from an ABBA member. Your participation in the celebrations for the 30th anniversary of ABBA and the five-year anniversary of the musical Mamma Mia! on April 6, 2004, Fältskog canceled at short notice. In the same year, however, she gave several television interviews in which she spoke openly about her private life, her fear of flying and the time at ABBA.

On February 12, 2005, she appeared alongside her three former bandmates at the Swedish premiere of Mamma Mia! at the Cirkus Theater in Stockholm. However, a joint photo of the four former ABBA members was not taken that evening. On January 7, 2007, Fältskog appeared for the final screening of the musical.

On July 4th, 2008, she attended the premiere of the musical film Mamma Mia! Alongside her three band colleagues . , which was captured for the first time since 1986, along with the cast of the film. On October 8th, 2008, a double CD was released under the title My Very Best , divided into Swedish (CD1) and English-language solo hits (CD2), selected from the entire duration of the solo career from 1967 to 2004. Your entry to place 4 in the Swedish album charts was enough for gold status in the first week of sales.

On January 23, 2009, she and her former ABBA colleague Anni-Frid Lyngstad received an award for their life's work. On October 15, 2010, Fältskog appeared together with her ex-husband Björn Ulvaeus for the premiere of Mamma Mia! in Denmark.

Musical comeback (2013)

In 2012 Fältskog started working on a new album together with the Swedish songwriter Jörgen Elofsson . This was published on May 10, 2013 in Germany and three days later worldwide. The simple title “A” is intended to allude to the first letter of Fältskog's first name and “ABBA”. On March 11, 2013, the single The One Who Loves You Now was released in advance in Germany and Austria, and the song When You Really Loved Someone in all other countries . The album entered the top ten of the album charts in Sweden, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark.

On November 12, 2013 Fältskog sang live on stage for the first time in 25 years. She sang the duet I Should've Followed You Home with Gary Barlow on the BBC Show Children in Need Rocks . They sang the song together for the first time; the recordings for the song had taken place separately. Barlow was also the show's organizer.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	NL	SE
1970	Som jag är	-	-	-	-	-	SE54 (1 week) SE	Chart entry only in 2017
1975	Elva kvinnor i ett hus	-	-	-	-	-	SE11 (13 weeks) SE	First published: December 1, 1975
1981	Nu tändas tusen juleljus	-	-	-	-	-	SE6 (4 weeks) SE	First release: October 1981 Christmas album with daughter Linda
1983	Wrap Your Arms Around Me	DE13 (26 weeks) DE	-	-	UK18 (13 weeks) UK	NL4th gold (18 weeks)NL	SE1 (11 weeks) SE	First published: May 31, 1983 Sales: + 50,000
1985	Eyes Of A Woman	DE30 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	UK38 (3 weeks) UK	NL19 (4 weeks) NL	SE2 (8 weeks) SE	First published: March 1985
1987	I stand alone	DE47 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK72 (1 week) UK	NL19 (7 weeks) NL	SE1 (8 weeks) SE	First published: November 1987
2004	My Coloring Book	DE6 (10 weeks) DE	AT25 (3 weeks) AT	CH17 (6 weeks) CH	UK12 silver (5 weeks)UK	NL11 (11 weeks) NL	SE1 platinum (25 weeks)SE	First published: April 19, 2004 Sales: + 80,000
2013	A.	DE3 gold (18 weeks)DE	AT8 (5 weeks) AT	CH2 (9 weeks) CH	UK6th gold (18 weeks)UK	NL5 (16 weeks) NL	SE2 gold (30 weeks)SE	First published: May 10, 2013 Sales: + 220,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1968: Agnetha Fältskog
• 1969: Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2
• 1971: När en vacker tanke blir en sång
• 1987: Kom följ med i vår karusell (with son Christian)

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	SE
1996	My love my life	-	-	-	-	SE21 (3 weeks) SE	Double CD
2008	My very best	-	-	-	-	SE4 (11 weeks) SE	Double CD

More albums

• 1973: Agnetha Fältskog's Bästa
• 1979: Tio år med Agnetha
• 1986: Sjung denna sång
• 1986: Agnetha Collection
• 1989: Agnetha in Germany (official Japanese fan club CD, all 16 German titles and two English bonus titles)
• 1994: Go with God (all 16 German titles, official scrapbook of the Agnetha Fältskog Worldwide Fanclub, Roosendaal, The Nederlands )
• 1994: Agnetha & Frida - The Voice Of ABBA (official compilation of 14 solo hits 1982–1985, label: Karussell Ltd./Polydor No. 550 212-2)
• 1998: That's Me (The Greatest Hits)
• 1998: Svensktoppar
• 2004: 13 hits
• 2004: De första åren - Agnetha Fältskog 1967–1979 (box with six CDs)

Participation in musicals

• 1972: Diverse: Jesus Christ Superstar (Swedish version / CD release in Germany 1995)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)							Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	NL	SE
1975	SOS Elva kvinnor i ett hus	-	-	-	-	-	-	SE4 (10 weeks) SE	B-side: Visa i åttonde månaden
1982	Never again	DE37 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	NL19 (5 weeks) NL	SE2 (8 weeks) SE	B-side: Just for the fun with Tomas Ledin
1983	The Heat Is On Wrap Your Arms Around Me	DE20 (17 weeks) DE	-	CH15 (1 week) CH	UK35 (7 weeks) UK	-	NL5 (11 weeks) NL	SE1 (8 weeks) SE	B-side: Man
	Can't Shake Loose Wrap Your Arms Around Me	-	-	-	UK63 (3 weeks) UK	US29 (15 weeks) US	-	-	B-side: Man (US) / To Love (International)
	Wrap Your Arms Around Me Wrap Your Arms Around Me	DE30 (11 weeks) DE	AT20 (2 weeks) AT	-	UK44 (6 weeks) UK	-	NL4 (9 weeks) NL	-	B-side: Take Good Care of Your Children
1984	It's So Nice to Be Rich	-	-	-	-	-	-	SE8 (4 weeks) SE	B-side: P&B
1985	I Won't Let You Go Eyes Of A Woman	DE24 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	UK84 (4 weeks) UK	-	NL17 (7 weeks) NL	SE6 (4 weeks) SE	B-side: You're There
1986	The Way You Are	-	-	-	-	-	-	SE1 (7 weeks) SE	B-side: Fly Like the Eagle with Ola Håkansson
1987	The Last Time I Stand Alone	DE47 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK77 (3 weeks) UK	-	NL40 (8 weeks) NL	-	B-side: Are You Gonna Throw It All Away
1988	I Wasn't The One (Who Said Goodbye) I Stand Alone	-	-	-	-	US93 (3 weeks) US	-	-	B-side: If You Need Somebody Tonight
1998	The Queen Of Hearts	-	-	-	-	-	-	SE53 (1 week) SE	B-side: Eyes Of A Woman
2004	If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind My Coloring Book	-	-	CH75 (1 week) CH	UK11 (6 weeks) UK	-	NL20 (9 weeks) NL	SE2 (15 weeks) SE
	When You Walk in the Room My Coloring Book	-	-	-	UK34 (2 weeks) UK	-	-	SE11 (9 weeks) SE
2013	The One Who Loves You Now A.	DE71 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	-	-
	I should've followed you home a	-	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK	-	-	-	Duet with Gary Barlow
	When You Really Loved Someone A	-	-	-	-	-	NL76 (1 week) NL	-

More singles

• 1967: Följ med mig / Jag var så kär
• 1968: Slutet gott allting gott / Utan dej mitt liv går vidare
• 1968: En sommar med dej / Försonade
• 1968: Allting har förändrat sig / Den jag väntat på
• 1968: Sjung denna sång / Någonting handler med mig
• 1968: Snövit och de sju dvärgarna / Min farbror Jonathan
• 1968: Borsta bort rollers
• 1968: Robinson Crusoe / Sonny Boy (in German, A-side: Text: Fred Jay, written by D. Zimmermann and Giorgio Moroder; B-side: Dieter Zimmermann, Hans Ulrich Weigel)
• 1968: Señor Gonzales / My most beautiful day (in German)
• 1969: En gång fanns bara vi två / Fram för svenska sommaren
• 1969: Hjärtats kronprins / day min hand låt oss bli vänner
• 1969: Zigenarvän / Som en vind kom du till mig
• 1969: Concerto d'Amore / Like the Wind (in German)
• 1969: Who still writes love letters today / The Pompadour Festival (in German)
• 1970: Om tårar vore guld / Litet solskensbarn
• 1970: Ta det bara med ro / Som ett eko
• 1970: I don't like question marks / Like the next bus (in German)
• 1970: A little man in a bottle / I was looking for love with you (in German)
• 1971: Kungens vaktparad / Jag vill att du skall bli lycklig
• 1971: Många gånger än / Han lämnar mig för att komma till dig
• 1972: Vart ska min kärlek föra / Nu ska du bli stilla
• 1972: Tio mil kvar till Korpilombolo / Så glad som dina ögon
• 1972: Go with God / A thousand miracles (in German)
• 1972: Come to me / I'm thinking of you (in German)
• 1973: En sång om sorg och glädje / Vi har hunnit fram till refrängen
• 1974: Golliwog / Here for Your Love
• 1974: Dom har glömt / Gulleplutt
• 1982: Ya nunca mas (with Tomas Ledin) / Y me sorprendio
• 1983: The Heat Is On / Take Good Care of Your Children (Canada)
• 1985: One Way Love / Turn The World Around
• 1985: Just One Heart / Click Track
• 1985: The Angels Cry / We Move as One
• 1987: På Söndag / Mitt namn är Blom (with Christian)
• 1987: Karusellvisan / Liten och trött (with Christian)
• 1988: Let It Shine / Maybe It Was Magic
• 2013: When You Really Loved Someone
• 2013: Dance Your Pain Away

Cover versions

As was the custom in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, Agnetha Fältskog recorded many titles by foreign artists and published them in Swedish.

Published (year)	Title (swedish)	Original title	Original interpreter	album
1968	Slutet god, allting god	Honey stuff	Judy Lynn	Agnetha Fältskog
1968	Följ med mej	Hello love	Julie Grant	Agnetha Fältskog
1968	Den jag väntat på	Your Love Is Everywhere	Jackie Trent	Agnetha Fältskog
1969	Ge dej till tåls	Are you ready for love	Kim Davis	Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2
1970	Som ett eko	Vagabondo	Nicola Di Bari	Som jag är
1970	En sång och en saga	La première étoile	Mireille Mathieu	Som jag är
1970	Tänk va 'skönt	It's Good to Be Alive	Judy Page	Som jag är
1970	Ta det bara med ro	Things Go Better with Love	Jeannie C. Riley	Som jag är
1970	Spela vår sång	Melody Man	Petula Clark	Som jag är
1970	Sov god min lilla vän	Un jour, un enfant	Frida Boccara	Som jag är
1971	Dröm är dröm, oh saga saga	Era bello il mio ragazzo	Anna Identici	När en vacker tank blir en sång
1972	Vart ska min kärlek föra	I don't know how to love him	Yvonne Elliman	Agnetha Fältskog bästa
1973	En sång om sorg och glädje	Union Silver	Middle of the Road	Agnetha Fältskog bästa
1973	Vi har hunnit fram till refrängen	Our Last Song Together	Neil Sedaka	Agnetha Fältskog bästa
1975	Mina ögon	Disillusion	Degradation	Elva kvinnor i ett hus
1975	SOS	SOS	Degradation	Elva kvinnor i ett hus

Cover versions German / Swedish / English

Agnetha also recorded 16 titles in German. Four of these titles have a Swedish equivalent.

Published (year)	Title (german)	Title (swedish)	Title (english)
1968	My best day	-	Between these arms Percy Sledge
1969	Concerto d'Amore	Det handlar om kärlek
1969	Like the wind	Som en vind kom du till mig
1970	A little man in a bottle	-	If you can put that in a bottle of Billy Meshel
1972	A thousand miracles	Jag skall göra allt
1972	I am thinking of you	Han lämnar mig för att komma till dig
1972	Go with God	-	Here's to you Joan Baez and Ennio Morricone

Other cover versions

In 2004, Agnetha Fältskog mainly released songs by previous artists on her album My Coloring Book .

year	Title (english)	Original interpreter	album
2004	My Coloring Book	Barbra Streisand	My Coloring Book
2004	When you walk in the room	Jackie DeShannon	My Coloring Book
2004	If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind	Cilla Black	My Coloring Book
2004	Sealed with a kiss	The Four Voices	My Coloring Book
2004	Love Me with All Your Heart	Los Hermanos Rigual (Cuando calienta el sol)	My Coloring Book
2004	Fly me to the moon	Kaye Ballard	My Coloring Book
2004	Past, Present and Future	The Shangri-Las	My Coloring Book
2004	A fool on the I	Fabrizio Ferretti (Dimmelo, parlami)	My Coloring Book
2004	I can't reach your heart	Connie Francis	My Coloring Book
2004	Sometimes when I'm dreaming	Kind of sparkle	My Coloring Book
2004	The End of the World	Skeeter Davis	My Coloring Book
2004	Remember me	Sandie Shaw	My Coloring Book
2004	What Now My Love	Gilbert Bécaud (Et maintenant)	My Coloring Book

German singles (1968–1972)

With the support of her fiancé at the time, the German composer and producer Dieter Zimmermann , she published titles with German-language texts in Germany in 1968 . Her eight German singles, however, had no commercial success. The engagement to Zimmermann ended in 1969.

The recordings were first released in Japan in 1989 on a CD entitled Agnetha in Germany . All 16 German pieces and two English bonus tracks are included. Of this Japanese pressing (Odoriko Music OMS-118) there are only about 300 pieces that were approved by the fan club, which no longer exists at the time.

In 1994 the title appeared without the English bonus tracks on a compilation CD (Geh mit Gott) pressed in the Netherlands on the German label Royal Records. 1,000 copies of this CD were pressed; it is also a fan club production.

year	A side	length	B side	length
1968	Robinson Crusoe (D. Zimmermann, Giorgio Moroder , Fred Jay )	2:33	Sonny Boy (D. Zimmermann, G. Moroder, F. Jay)	2:36
1968	Señor Gonzales ( Dieter Zimmermann / Georg Buschor )	2:28	My most beautiful day (Howard Evans, William Jenkins, / HU Weigel)	2:59
1969	Concerto d'Amore ( Hans Blum )	2:23	Like the wind (D. Zimmermann, Hans Ulrich Weigel )	2:58
1969	Who still writes love letters today (D. Zimmermann & Renée Marcard)	2:26	The Feast of the Pompadour (D. Zimmermann & Renée Marcard)	2:36
1970	I don't like question marks (H. Blum / H. Bredow)	2:34	Like the next bus (D. Zimmerman / F. Jay)	2:26
1970	A Little Man in a Bottle (Billy Meshel & Curl List)	2:41	I looked for love with you ( Joachim Heider / J. Relin)	2:27
1972	Go with God ( Joan Baez , Ennio Morricone and F. Jay)	3:04	A thousand miracles (Agnetha Fältskog, Ben Juris )	3:22
1972	Come to me (Robert Puschmann and Sven Linus)	3:22	I think of you (Agnetha Fältskog, Ben Juris)	3:00

Documentation

• Agnetha: ABBA and After . BBC One, October 2014

literature

• Agnetha Fältskog, Brita Åhman: As I Am: ABBA Before & Beyond . Virgin, 1997, ISBN 9781852276546 .
• Carl Magnus Palm: ABBA: Light and Shadow . Music Sales Group, 2012, ISBN 9780857128331 .
• Anna Kemper , Christoph Dallach: Agnetha. For the stars. In: ZEITmagazin 18/2013 from April 25, 2013.
• Martin Scholz: "Abba is a big part of us all" . Die Welt, November 11, 2013 (interview).

Web links

Commons : Agnetha Fältskog  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Agnetha Fältskog Solo Albums . Retrieved July 23, 2018
• Agnetha Fältskog's website (not official, fansite only)
• Agnetha Fältskog at Allmusic (English)
• Agnetha Fältskog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Agnetha Fältskog in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

• Carl Magnus Palm: Light and Shadow. ABBA - The real story. Bosworth Edition, 2006, paperback edition, 638 pages. ISBN 3-86543-100-3 .

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2. ↑ dailymail.co.uk: I was so tired once Abba was over
3. ↑ Is Abba's Agnetha Faltskog finally ready to forgive her bandmates for years of misery? In: Daily Mail , July 13, 2008, last accessed December 26, 2010.
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