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The Winner Takes It All

"The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA is a piano-driven ballad released in July 1980 as the lead single from their seventh studio album, Super Trouper. Written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, it is set in G-flat major and explores the emotional weight of a relationship's end. For electric guitarists, its rich harmonic movement and melodic phrasing offer solid practice in ballad-style chord voicings and expressive, restrained lead work.

  • The song is written in G-flat major, a key that challenges guitarists to work with less common barre chord shapes and voicings.
  • Running just under five minutes, the track allows room to explore sustained, emotive guitar phrasing typical of late-1970s pop ballads.
  • Björn Ulvaeus acknowledged the song draws on the experience of divorce, giving its chord progressions an emotional depth worth capturing on guitar.
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ABBA's session guitarists relied on the Telecaster's bright, articulate single-coil tone to cut through layered pop arrangements without muddiness. Its punchy attack and clarity were essential for delivering the precise rhythm work and clean tones that defined the band's studio recordings.

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