Inside two years of her first English-language album Wrap Your Arms Round Me, ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog was strolling the solo path once more. On Might 4, 1985, after its March launch, she entered the UK charts together with her second English language album – and eighth general – Eyes Of A Girl, a document filled with notable British contributions.
The LP, recorded in ABBA’s common location of Polar Studios in Stockholm, was produced by 10cc’s Eric Stewart and opened with “One Way Love,” a track written by ELO mastermind Jeff Lynne that grew to become a Prime 40 single in Germany. Eyes Of A Girl additionally contained “The Angels Cry,” contributed by Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward, and “We Move As One,” by John Wetton and Geoff Downes, the seasoned British musicians who had been collectively in rock heavyweights Asia.
The British accent on Agnetha’s album was additional heightened by UK duo Jan Ince and Phil Palmer’s “Click Track,” China Burton’s “I Keep Turning Off Lights,” and “Just One Heart,” written by Bob Noble with Judie Tzuke’s longtime producer and husband, Paul Muggleton.
Stewart himself had two solo copyrights on the album, “I Won’t Be Leaving You” and “Save Me (Why Don’t Ya)”; the producer had a co-writing credit score with Fältskog herself on its first single “I Won’t Let You Go,” which grew to become a Prime 10 hit in Sweden, Belgium and Poland, and went Prime 20 in Holland. The pair additionally wrote the B-side “You’re There,” not included on the unique album however added as a bonus observe on its 2005 remaster.
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Eyes Of A Girl was a considerable success in Sweden, the place it reached No.2, and another European nations. However within the UK, the place Wrap Your Arms Round Me had gone as excessive as No.18, the follow-up debuted and peaked at No.38.
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