Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA) & Ola Håkansson (Secret Service) — The Way You Are (OFFICIAL VIDEO, 1985)

Tim Norell: We were asked if we could create a real hit for the Swedish campaign for Olympic winter games 1992. Maybe Ola in a duet with some internationally known female artist? Ola called Agnetha Fältskog (ABBA) and asked. Yes, we were welcome to her home and play the imaginary song for her... I worked at the piano both day and night. Finally I got a ballad and a slightly more “up-tempo“ song. I was still worried. None of them sounded like a battle song for Sweden. But Ola said: if we still do not get the Olympics, such a song is dead! Let’s make hits instead! Ola and Alexander wrote lyrics while Anders and I started a feverish work in the studio, as usual with Mats “Limpan“ Lindberg with his bandless bass. Some singer with Agnetha-like voice sang and so two demos were ready. One evening Ola and I nervously went home to Agnetha in her large villa at Lidingö, with the two songs “The Way You Are“ and “Fly Like The Eagle“. Given the fam