Just Like That (ABBA song)
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Just Like That is a complete unreleased recording by Swedish pop group ABBA. It contains a saxophone solo by Raphael Ravenscroft, who worked on Gerry Rafferty's hit "Baker Street" in 1978. It was one of the few times that ABBA used a musician outside the usual ABBA circle.
"Just Like That" was recorded in May 1982, the final year ABBA recorded together. The song was finished in the summer of 1982.
"Just Like That" (and another song called "I Am The City") was planned for inclusion on ABBA's retrospective 1982 double album "The Singles - The First Ten Years", but eventually they opted for two other compositions, "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack". "Just Like That" was shelved for the next album planned in the autumn of 1983, however ABBA disbanded in early 1983 and there never was a new studio album.
In 1985 "Just Like That" was re-written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus for Swedish duo Gemini, who reached the European charts with their version. Gemini's version of "Just Like That" only used the ABBA chorus. The verses of the ABBA composition were used in the Swedish 2002 production of the musical Chess by Andersson and Ulvaeus. In 1994 a small snippet of the recording by ABBA was made public on an ABBA boxset, "Thank You For The Music".
Despite petitioning from fans and requests from Universal Music, former band members Andersson & Ulvaeus have refused to allow the complete ABBA version to be released. However, it has turned up on bootlegs, including the fabled Opus 10. There are at least 3 known versions of the song: the "Sax" version (with the saxophone solo), the "La La" or "Na Na" version (which features vocals by Agnetha in place of the saxophone), and the "Slow" version (which features a different instrumental melody in place of the saxophone solo); the latter two versions have never been officially released, even in part.
