30 January 2012
VVN Music
ABBA fans are about to hear the first "new" music from the group since the Thank You For the Music box set in 1994 with the release of a rare and previously unreleased piece.
From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel was a medley of demos recorded but not used on the final Abba album The Visitors in 1981.
A remastered version of the album was released in 1997 and contained extra tracks but not this one. The new Deluxe edition of The Visitors is scheduled for April 23, 2012.
Abba recorded The Visitors between March 16 and November 14, 1981 and released the album on November 30, 1981.
The album was the very first CD pressed at Polygram’s CD plant in Europe.
Since the original 1981 album release, The Visitors has been reissued three times, first in 1997, then 2001 and again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings.
For the record, Abba never officially broke-up but their last appearance together was on the British TV program The Late, Late Breakfast Show on December 11, 1982. Throughout 1983 and 1984, Anna and Frida still talked about another Abba album but it never happened.
The four members have only been seen together twice since the British TV show, once in 1986 and again for the Mamma Mia movie premiere in Sweden in 2008.
Track List:
CD
Original Album
The Visitors
Head Over Heels
When All Is Said And Done
Soldiers
I Let The Music Speak
One Of Us
Two For The Price Of One
Slipping Through My Fingers
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Bonus Tracks
Should I Laugh Or Cry
I Am The City
You Owe Me One
Cassandra
Under Attack
The Day Before You Came
Previously Unreleased Bonus Track
From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel (demos)
DVD
Two For The Price Of One (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)
Slipping Through My Fingers (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)
When All Is Said And Done (Original Promo Clip)
ABBA In London, November 1982 (The Late Late Breakfast Show, BBC)
ABBA In Stockholm, November 1982 (Nöjesmaskinen, SVT)
The Visitors TV commercial I (UK)
The Visitors TV commercial II (Australia)
The Singles – The First Ten Years TV commercial I (UK)
The Singles – The First Ten Years TV commercial II (Australia)
International Sleeve Gallery
