'I will survive' was originally a B-side to 'Substitute' (which was also a hit by South African girl band Clout), but Radio-DJ's played the B-side due to audience response and it was changed to A-side.

Australian singer Kylie Minogue performed the song at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.Ĭharts: Netherlands: 1 (1976) and 15 (1993), Belgium: 1, USA: 1, UK: 1, Germany: 1, Australia: 1 Nice covers of 'Dancing Queen' are by the San Francisco Gay Mens Choir, Luka Bloom and the Sydney gay & lesbian Choir. Nowadays Björn Again is a great Abba-cover-group. The video for the song was directed by Lasse Halström. Abba recorded the song also in Spanish: La Reina del Baile. In the Netherlands 'Dancing Queen' was released twice: in 19. The song is also featured in the musical 'Mamma Mia'. Dancing Queen - which came from the album 'Arrival' became Abba's only number one in the USA and worldwide became their biggest hit single. From then on they conquered the world with songs like 'Money, money, money', 'The winner takes it all' and 'Chiquitita'. The Swedish popgroup ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with 'Waterloo'.

(Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) Some records are sung by gay artists, some have lyrics that are gay orientated and some are just popular in the gay community (or at least with me). These are - in random order - my personal 100 favorite gay classics.