ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

What this video is

Released 12 October 1979 as the sole single from Greatest Hits Vol. 2, 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' arrived at the tail end of the global disco era — the same year as the Disco Demolition Night backlash in the US, which led Atlantic Records to cancel the single's North American release. Despite this, the track became one of ABBA's biggest international hits, topping charts in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, and…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of Eurodisco's commercial apex, this video demonstrates how ABBA and Hallström pioneered the promotional clip format as a global distribution tool years before MTV's 1981 launch. The ARP Odyssey-driven synth hook and Agnetha Fältskog's lead vocal performance represent the…

The director

Lars Sven 'Lasse' Hallström (born 2 June 1946, Stockholm) is a Swedish film director who first gained recognition directing almost all of ABBA's promotional film clips from 1974 through early 1982. He came to international attention with his 1985 feature My…