By 1983, the members of ABBA have been going their separate methods, and it signalled an especially busy 12 months within the lifetime of Agnetha Fältskog. After making her performing debut within the Swedish movie Rakenstam, the vocalist set about resuming the solo profession that she had began within the days earlier than the group did, as early as 1968. However after ABBA’s retirement, it will be together with her first English-language album, Wrap Your Arms Round Me.
That early, self-titled album was launched when Agnetha was simply 18. It was adopted by three additional Swedish language LPs up till 1971, when her work with ABBA started in earnest. Even on the top of their world-beating success, Fältskog nonetheless devoted time to her solo work, with a 1975 set and a Christmas album, together with her daughter Linda, in 1981.
Calling within the heavyweights
However now it was time to deal with the English language market in her personal title, and to name in some heavyweights. Prolific hit writer-producer Mike Chapman was appointed producer of the undertaking. A lot of different title writers additionally contributed materials, together with English composers Russ Ballard and Tony Ashton. The latter’s “The Warmth Is On,” co-written with Florrie Palmer, was a European hit, and Ballard’s “Can’t Shake Unfastened” gave Agnetha a Prime 30 US success.
The mother or father album, Wrap Your Arms Round Me, got here out on Might 31, 1983 and was named after a track written by Chapman with Holly Knight. That observe gave Fältskog one other European hit, and the album was additionally a sizeable success, coming into the US chart in mid-September, earlier than destiny stepped in.
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In early October, the artist was admitted to hospital with concussion after being concerned in a bus crash on the best way house from a promotional tour of Europe for the album. With a brand new document in shops, that dangerous fortune hardly helped its gross sales prospects. On the finish of that month, Wrap Your Arms Round Me peaked on the Billboard LP chart at No.102.
Together with chosen Benny/Björn and Frida solo albums, Wrap Your Arms Round Me is out there on each black and restricted version pink vinyl.