ABBA – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)“, (working title “Been and Gone and Done It”), was written and composed by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, is one of ABBA’s biggest Eurodisco hits. It was recorded and released in 1979 with “The King Has Lost His Crown” as the B-side. It appears on ABBA’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2 album, as well as their best-selling album, Gold: Greatest Hits.

“Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man after Midnight)” is the most liberated of their songs, a masterpiece of Scandinavian frankness. It was recorded in August 1979 for a North American tour. Sung by Fältskog, it is about a depressed woman alone in a flat watching late-night television as an autumn wind howls outside. “Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight,” she cries. “Won’t somebody help me chase the shadows away?”

The song’s video, made by Swedish film director Lasse Hallström, shows it being recorded in Polar Studios in Stockholm, a state of the art establishment that Abba had built for themselves.

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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme! este un single lansat la 2 Octombrie 1979, și  inclus pe albumul “Voulez-Vous” din același an, ca Bonus Track. De asemenea, această piesă a fost inclusă și pe albumul “Greatest Hits Vol 2”, tot în 1979.

Lead vocal în această piesă este Agnetha. A fost un hit european: locul 1 în Belgia, Finlanda, Franța, Irlanda și Elveția. În primele 3 locuri în Austria, Germania, Marea Britanie, Olanda și Norvegia. Nu a fost single în Suedia.

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• Agnetha Fältskog – lead and backing vocals
• Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad – lead and backing vocals
• Björn Ulvaeus – guitars, backing and lead vocals
• Benny Andersson – keyboards, synthesizers, piano, accordion, guitars, backing and lead vocals.

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Versuri:
Half past twelve
And I’m watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside my window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the gloom
There’s not a soul out there
No-one to hear my prays

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Movie stars
Find the end of the rainbow, with a fortune to win
It’s so different from the world I’m living in
Tired of T. V.
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there’s nothing there to see, no one in sight
There’s not a soul out there
No-one to hear my prays

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight…
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight…

There’s not a soul out there
No-one to hear my prays

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase the shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

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