In September 1975, Sveriges Radio (or was it SVT Örebro?) produced a 30-minute documentary about Stig Anderson and his forthcoming trips around Europe. Entitled Mr Trendsetter. The 35-minute programme was clearly biased against Stig whose success and wealth was frowned upon in Sweden at the time. It was sheer luck that the production team accompanied Stig to the Metronome Studio at the same time as the vocals were recorded for what was to become ABBA's most famous song Dancing Queen.

Although the studio scenes mainly functioned to illustrate the perceived ''cynical factory-process'' in Stig and ABBA's approach to music-making, today we must be thankful for the production team's diligence, for these scenes remain the only film ever shot of ABBA working in the studio. The scenes from the recording studio were spread out over the entire documentary, but have been edited together here to provide the viewer with as much footage as possible from this glimpse into ABBA's studio work. Also, it offers a unique opportunity to hear a verse that was subsequently edited out of the final version of Dancing Queen.

This clip of Dancing Queen in the studio is regularly used in ABBA compilation programmes - but the footage actually orginiates from this programme, Mr Trendsetter.

There is a three second clip of Björn strolling past the telex machine at Polar's offices looking surprised there was a camera there and footage of ABBA with Lotta at some function.

Broadcast Information: 
The brief footage of Stig, Benny and Björn around a table was broadcast in The Winner Takes It All - The ABBA Story which has been released on DVD.

The footage of the recording of Dancing Queen has been released officially on the Arrival Deluxe Edition

Very brief footage of ABBA sitting around a table with Lotta (from Svenne and Lotta) listening to Stig was broadcast in the 2012 programme ABBA: Vägen till Waterloo

Information from ABBA - The Book by Jean-Marie Potiez
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