Super Trouper (song)

"Super Trouper"
Single by ABBA
from the album Super Trouper
B-side"The Piper"
Released3 November 1980
Recorded1980
Genre
Length4:10
LabelPolar Music, Epic Records (UK)[1]
Songwriter(s)Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus[1]
Producer(s)Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus[1]
ABBA singles chronology
"On and On and On"
(1980)
"Super Trouper"
(1980)
"Happy New Year"
(1980)
Music video
"Super Trouper" on YouTube

"Super Trouper" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, and the title track from their 1980 studio album of the same name, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. It was released in November 1980 as the album's third single. The song – with lead vocals by Anni-Frid Lyngstad – had the working title "Blinka Lilla Stjärna" (i.e. Twinkle Little Star, in Swedish),[2] and was the last track to be written and recorded for the album (ultimately replacing the track "Put on Your White Sombrero").

The song's name refers to the Super Trouper, a make of followspot used in large venues.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference 500 Number One Hits was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Elisabeth Vincentelli (31 March 2004). Abba's Abba Gold. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 96. ISBN 9781441167897.
  3. ^ "The Making of Super Trouper". Abba - the Official Site. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2018.