Super Trouper – the song about spotlights! This performance of Super Trouper was recorded on November 27 1980 in Stockholm and broadcast live by satellite on Show Express, a West German tv show. It was originally planned for Abba to record the show in Germany. This trip was cancelled after kidnap threats against the group and their children were received. Rather than missing out, Show Express came to Abba instead! Abba performed three songs to playback for the show: The Winner Takes It All, Super Trouper and On And On And On. Super Trouper was recorded on October 3 1980 and was released as a single and the opening track of Abba’s 7th album “Super Trouper” on November 3 1980. Super Trouper gave Abba their 9th and final #1 for 3 weeks in the UK. Top 10 positions were: Austria #3, Belgium #1, Finland #5, France #4, Holland #1, Ireland #1, Mexico #3, Norway #2, Spain #8, Switzerland #3, UK #1, West Germany #1. Bjorn recalls: “We had already decided to call the album Super Trouper because we’d been on tour and had used these huge coloured spotlights called ‘super troupers’ which we thought would make a good name for the album. And then we listened to the album and thought ‘It needs something more, it needs another song’. So it was a song that we wrote in the studio, the only time that ever happened. The title of the album fitted completely with the chorus we had written, but it was very difficult to build a story around that title. To write a song about a spotlight was not …