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Post by foreverfan on Feb 9, 2017 9:15:54 GMT
For some reason this has passed me by !!!  Is there a reason why the single was released without Phil Collins ? did they fall out ? he didnt want to know ? As its a puzzle to me really as he was huge at the time and surely if HWS was a duet it would have been a hit, ? it only managed to make 100 here in the UK, and really wasnt a hit anywhere. I know ifs buts and maybe's , but if she had had a huge hit in the UK her solo stuff may have been more popular and gone down another road altogether. so what was the reason to go solo and not duet .... |
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Post by josef on Feb 9, 2017 15:28:59 GMT
As far as I know, he simply didn't want to be associated with it. I can't state for a fact, but that's my memory of it. I don't think he was very happy with the track for some reason. I really liked it at the time and it was even 'the song' between a female friend and me. But I couldn't tell you the last time I listened to it- YEARS ago!
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Post by foreverfan on Feb 9, 2017 15:45:47 GMT
OK , thanks, seems strange why an artist of his calibre, was not happy but let it go ahead anyhow, such is life I guess, I believe it wasnt the best of relationships anyhow, maybe wrong, but something in the back of my mind says he couldnt wait to move on.....
treated myself to the Frida Something Going On, and heard both remixes and wondered why...
the album is a little dated now, unlike ABBA s material.
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Post by Alan on Feb 9, 2017 17:23:39 GMT
Isn't it more to do with Phil Collins and Stig not getting on? In his autobiography, Collins was quite scathing about Stig. It's possible that, for that reason, he wanted nothing more to do with the project after he completed his work on it.
Another possible reason which I hope isn't true, is that he didn't want to be associated with a member of an act that was then seen as being very much part of the 70s. He was now huge and ABBA weren't. Had his vocals been on the single, it might have done better, but the ABBA association might have damaged his image.
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Post by gogo on Feb 9, 2017 18:38:43 GMT
In 1982/3 it was absolutely no secret that Phil Collins had produced the album.
Frida told it everywhere and all the papers wrote about their collaboration.
Collins himself reasoned that their duet was a complete mess vocally – the key
being too high for him, too low for her, and so on.
Personally, I didn't notice the flaws. So I guess the true reason behind Collins'
rejection was indeed the ABBA-connection. As Björn likes to put it ABBA were
"distinctly uncool" at that time ...
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