| "Consolation" | ||||
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| Single by the Hep Stars | ||||
| from the album The Hep Stars | ||||
| B-side | "Don't" | |||
| Released | October 1966 | |||
| Recorded | October 1966 | |||
| Studio | Europafilm Studios, Stockholm | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:25 | |||
| Label | Olga | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Benny Andersson | |||
| Producer(s) | Gert Palmcrantz | |||
| the Hep Stars singles chronology | ||||
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"Consolation" is a song written by Swedish keyboardist Benny Andersson, first recorded as the Hep Stars thirteenth single in October 1966.[1] The single largely left the baroque pop style sound which had dominated both their previous singles "Sunny Girl" and "Wedding", but continues the soft rock style of "I Natt Jag Drömde" and also ventures into the territory of psychedelic rock, a genre that would become prevalent the following year.[2]
The single continued the Hep Stars chart success in Sweden, reaching number 2 on Tio i Topp. On Kvällstoppen, the song peaked at number 1 for ten unconsecutive weeks, and as a result became the Hep Stars biggest hit on that chart. Andersson would later state dismay with the single. It was included on their second studio album The Hep Stars.
- ^ "Consolation". smdb.kb.se (in Swedish). Svensk mediedatabas. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), ISBN 0-7890-0151-9, p. 223.