Up next… I used to Hate ABBA’s music. But you all convinced me to give them another chance. So I took your advice and today’s song The Winner Takes It All has become a favorite… and the story behind it is just as rich! It was written by the group’s main songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus as he was going through a tough breakup with one of the singers of the band, Agnetha Faltskog… It was a heartwrenching, vulnerable song about DIVORCE and Bjorn admits the subject was so challenging emotionally that he wrote it while drunk…then he brought it into record and decided he was going to sing it. But Bjorn knew in his heart that his ex had to be its interpreter… even though the other famous female in the band AnniFrid Lyngstadt could handle it… In fact, AnniFrid was jealous she didn’t get to do it. So in the middle of their separation, while her exhusband already had a new girlfriend, this songbird sang the hell out of a song that would become a classic. and that was only the start…she had to sing it every night live with him right next to her until the band eventually broke up! The heartaching story of The Winner Takes it All is next on Professor of Rock.

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As the lyrics go in that wonderful pop ditty by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield…breaking up is hard to do. The first breakup is indelibly etched in our minds, just as much as the last one. But those who have experienced marital divorce know what I mean when I say that it is the motherlode—the most devastating of all breakups. Putting any financial impact aside, and focusing solely on the emotional suffering it causes, DIVORCE is about as traumatic as human drama gets. When you enter into a marriage, you go ‘all in’ with a contract for life making that sacred vow to ’til death do us part.’ If the marriage fails, it’s as if you failed… Your whole world comes crashing down. Divorce affects every aspect of your life, and the lives of those of your family & friends. In the story of the internationally beloved group ABBA, divorce WAS like death…It killed the band.

Thanks to many of you in the POR community who encouraged me to revisit “The Winner Takes It All from Abba, I’ve discovered the empathic brilliance of that song, written about the heartbreaking experience.. of divorce…. Where one person clings desperately to the marriage: I had heard it before, but like I mentioned before, I never liked ABBA’s music so I didn’t pay most of their output any mind, but I must say, since I took the challenge of listening to their music for three days and then after releasing my last video on them and taking some of your suggestions, this song has become a classic to me.

SO Following a collaboration on the musical arrangement with his ABBA colleague, Benny Andersson, the lyrics for “The Winner Takes it All” were written, in an uncharacteristic setting, by Bjorn Ulvaeus. The inspiration came to him after he separated from his thenwife, ABBA colead vocalist Agnetha Faltskog. Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson started writing "The Winner Takes It All" in the summer of ’79 in a cottage on the island of Viggsö. Benny recalled that the idea for the song suddenly emerged from some old musical pieces they had lying around. Initially, the demo was called "The Story of My Life," and it had a constant, uptempo beat.