The Day Before You Came
ABBA | Artist Essentials
First released: October 18, 1982 (day verified)
Original English-language studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: A patient, unusually spare stretch of storytelling; let the repeated electronic figures build their own tension.
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First released: October 18, 1982 (day verified)
The official history gives 18 October 1982 for the single, before the November compilation. Later editions append it to The Visitors, but it was not on that album's original 1981 release.
Recording: Original English-language studio recording
Credit: ABBA
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: The Day Before You Came
ABBA - the final 1982 singles
The Day Before You Came single was released on 18 October 1982, before The Singles album on 8 November; not an original 1981 Visitors track. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
The Visitors - original recording and television version review
The 1981 When All Is Said and Done television soundtrack has a different edit from the original album; the 1982 singles are separate later sessions. | Reviewed 2026-10-17
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About ABBA
ABBA brought together Swedish performers Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Andersson and Ulvaeus developed the group's songwriting and production partnership, while Fältskog and Lyngstad's voices became central to its recordings. The 1974 Eurovision victory with Waterloo introduced the quartet to a wider international audience. Its 1970s catalog ranges from closely arranged pop songs to dance music and ballads. The members' separate solo and duo recordings belong to different artist histories.
Artist background sources
ABBA - official history
Group members, songwriting partnership, Eurovision breakthrough and original group career; separate member careers. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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