“Never thought that I’d ever sing again. But hearing the
first three songs, I just couldn’t say no!” With these words, one of popular
music’s most recognisable and celebrated names of the past 40 years –
Agnetha
Fältskog – signals her return to the spotlight. The siren songstress from ABBA
is back with a new album “A”, preceded by a curtain-raising track, “When You
Really Loved Someone." Agnetha has been working with renowned,
Grammy-nominated songwriter/producer Jorgen Elofsson – who has been responsible
for hits by Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion and Westlife, among
others – and acclaimed producer/arranger Peter Nordahl on her brand new album.
“She wanted to make music again,” says Elofsson, “We could feel that. She had
been thinking about it. Basically, she’s a musician, a songwriter/singer who
hasn’t done that for a while. We saw her open up, become much happier, with
music again in her life.” “A” features one of Agnetha first co-writes in many
years: “I hadn’t written any music for a long, long time,” she says. “But I sat
at the piano, and suddenly it was there.” The most anticipated new album of
2013, “A” was recorded and produced by Jörgen Elofsson and Peter Nordahl: “We
wanted to make this as if Agnetha hadn’t entered
ABBA,” says Elofsson. “We were
interested in what she sounded like if she hadn’t been in the group. And yet
it’s important that she comes across as we remember her to be.”
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