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 I worked at the piano both day and night. Finally I got a ballad and a slightly more uptempo 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 Agnethalike 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
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