Voulez-Vous
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| Studio album by ABBA | ||||
| Released | 23 April 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 13 March 1978 – 29 March 1979 | |||
| Studio | Polar Music Studios, Marcus Music, Glenstudio, Criteria Studios | |||
| Genre | Disco | |||
| Length | 41:43 (original release) | |||
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| BBC | (positive) |
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| Smash Hits | 6/10 |
Voulez-Vous (Do You Want in French) is the sixth studio album by the Swedish group ABBA, released in 1979. It features a number of hits such as "Chiquitita", "Does Your Mother Know" and "I Have a Dream" and showed the group embrace disco music, which was at its peak at the time. The album peaked at No.1 in a number of countries and was one of the top five-selling albums in the UK for that year.
It was the first ABBA album to be mainly recorded at Polar Studios in Stockholm, and the only ABBA album to include a studio recording made outside Sweden: the instrumental backing track for the title track was partly recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami.
Voulez-Vous was first released on CD in 1984. The album has been digitally remastered and reissued four times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set, and yet again in 2010 for the Voulez-Vous Deluxe Edition.
In early 1978, ABBA were at the peak of their success and having just completed promotion for their latest album and theatrical film release, thoughts were turned to the next album, which was planned to be released in time for Christmas. Sessions however proved to be difficult and after starting on 13 March 1978 with the ultimately unreleased track "Dr Claus von Hamlet", a number of compositions were demoed and rejected. Indeed, after six months, only two songs that would end up on the finished album ("The King Has Lost His Crown" and "Lovers (Live a Little Longer)") were completed.
During this time the group opened their own recording studios, Polar Studios in Stockholm, which were among the most advanced in the world at the time and would be where ABBA would work from here on. Among the songs attempted at this time were "Lovelight", which would go on to be a B-side to the "Chiquitita" single, "Dream World", which was a complete recording and eventually released in 1994 on a box set and later on re-issues of the Voulez-Vous album. Other tracks started but subsequently scrapped included "Crying Over You", "Free as a Bumble Bee", "Rubber Ball Man" and "Just a Notion".
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