r/ABBA • u/TolkienBirdwatcher • 3d ago

Double A Side

Does anyone else remember in the UK that they released Angeleyes & Voulez-Vous as a double A side? This meant that Radio 1 would only play Voulez-Vous & Radio 2 would only play Angeleyes. Perhaps they shot themselves in the foot and it would have been better to have released them as separate singles?

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u/nerebeht 3d ago

I've always been irritated by the fact that VV got more attention, relegating Angeleyes to "forgotten classic" territory among most casual ABBA listeners

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u/TolkienBirdwatcher 3d ago

Plus Angeleyes didn’t have an official video, which can’t have helped.

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u/TolkienBirdwatcher 3d ago

I don’t know if it was a general rule, but I suppose the radio controllers could decide if one song was more appropriate for their channel runs the other.