1 November, 1976.

Everyone needs it, not enough have it and those that have the most really don’t like sharing it. My, what a cheerful thought for a Wednesday morning. Can you tell it’s nearly payday?

This was Abba’s follow up single to Dancing Queen and the second to be released from the 1976 album Arrival. 

With the original working title of Been and Gone and Done It, this was about a woman who, despite working, still struggles financially and is therefore looking for a well-off man to solve her problems. Hey, it was the seventies, times and attitudes were very different. We have grown as a species since then….haven’t we?

The song gave Abba a number one in seven countries although the Americans didn’t take to it so well, it only reached number fifty-six on the US charts. Here in the UK it spent twelve weeks on the chart and peaked at number three.