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 * http://www.laweekly.com/music/happy-new-year-featuring-morbid-political-lyrics-by-abba-2402049
 * https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=N7hVDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT291&dq=Happy+New+Year+ABBA&hl=vi&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE-6O70o_cAhWRA4gKHVU1BrEQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=Happy%20New%20Year%20ABBA&f=false
 * https://abbasite.com/articles/happy-new-year-and-merry-christmas/
 * ‘Happy New Year’ was indeed one of the first songs to be completed for the new album.
 * Written in Barbados in January 1980, ‘Happy New Year’ was originally intended for a musical about a New Year’s Eve, one of Björn and Benny’s many attempts to get started with a piece of musical drama.
 * They even pitched their idea to comedian John Cleese, of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame, hoping that he would want to write the book for their proposed musical.
 * Cleese turned them down, however, and the songwriting team scrapped the project.
 * It would be another three years before Björn and Benny finally started writing what was to become their first full-length musical, Chess (a collaboration with Tim Rice).
 * Back in 1980, however, they were still quite fond of the New Year’s Eve concept, and in February they began recording ‘Happy New Year’ for the upcoming album.


 * It seems there were even plans for making the track a single at one point, for shortly before the November release of the Super Trouper album, a promo clip was made for ‘Happy New Year’.
 * Festive scenes were filmed in conjunction with the making of the album sleeve, after which the ABBA members’ actual performance of the song was filmed in director Lasse Hallström’s apartment. These latter sequences underscored the song’s wistful reflections on what the future may hold, thereby providing a marked contrast to the party scenes. Ultimately, however, ‘Happy New Year’ was not destined to be a single at the time.