FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: THE LEGACY OF BAROQUE ELECTRO-DISCO IN ABBA'S "LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME"
FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY: THE LEGACY OF BAROQUE ELECTRO-DISCO IN ABBA'S "LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME" ABBA's track "Lay All Your Love on Me", recorded in 1980 for the group's seventh studio album titled Super Trouper, has stood for over four decades as one of the most fascinating and multidimensional phenomena in the history of global pop music. The forty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of work on this composition and its subsequent release cycle provides an excellent opportunity to conduct a rigorous musicological, technological, and market analysis. This song, although not originally planned as a single, revolutionized the club music market, became a milestone in the development of studio sound processing, and is currently experiencing a new lease of life thanks to Dolby Atmos spatial audio technology and the revolutionary virtual spectacle ABBA Voyage in London. CREATION HISTORY, CONTEXT, AND STUDIO EVOLUTION OF SOUND Work on the track began...