Australian singles chart:
Knowing Me, Knowing You entered the Kent Music Report on 7 March 1977 and peaked at #9. The song was #66 on the Top 100 of 1977.
Album:
The song is on Arrival which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 22 November 1976 and held the #1 position for 8 weeks.
Songwriters:
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson
Producers:
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor
Songfacts:
Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote this song at a time when the relationships within the group were strained, and his lyric reflects that. He was married to ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog; his bandmates Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were also married.
Agnetha and Anni-Frid handle the lead vocals, singing about walking though an empty house in the aftermath of a split. Both couples ended up getting divorced a few years later, with Bjorn and Agnetha parting ways in 1980, and Benny and Anni-Frid calling it quits a few years later.
Said Ulvaeus: “I think I wrote Knowing Me Knowing You before the divorce. In many ways, Agnetha and my divorce was an amicable one, we just grew apart and decided let’s split up. Benny and Frida’s was a little more difficult. It was not a happy time but still very creative.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/abba/knowing-me-knowing-you
Lyrics:
No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an empty house
Tears in my eyes
This is where the story ends
This is goodbye
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