Two for the Price of One

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Name =Two for the Price of One


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Artist =ABBA
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Album =The Visitors
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Released =November 30, 1981
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Length =3:38
Writer =Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Label =Polar (original release)
Producer =Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
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#"The Visitors"
#"Head Over Heels"
#"When All Is Said and Done"
#"Soldiers";Side B
#

"I Let The Music Speak"
#"One of Us"
#"Two for the Price of One"
#"Slipping Through My Fingers"
#"Like An Angel Passing Through My Room"
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"Two For The Price of One" is the name of a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA in March 1981 for inclusion on their studio album "The Visitors".

The song, the last lead vocal sung by Bjorn Ulvaeus, is about a lonely man who answers a personal ad offering "two for the price of one" - only to find that the two women involved are Alice Whiting and her mother.

Demo Version

A demo version of the song (only available on bootlegs) differs from the final version in many ways. The woman's name is Alex Lexy (to rhyme with "sexy"; this was changed in the final version to Whiting/exciting), and the punch line involving the mother is left out entirely.

The demo is considerably darker than the light-hearted final version. It is sung from a first-person perspective, and contains the overtly suicidal lyric "there's no romance in my life, sometimes I wish I had a knife." The last word was changed in the final version to "wife".