''Stormvarning'' (''Gale Warning'') is the sixth studio album from

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

singer/songwriter

Ted Gärdestad Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad (; 18 February 195622 June 1997) was a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and actor known internationally as Ted. Gärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, signing with Polar Music. Ass ...

, released on the

Polar Music Polar Music is a Swedish record company founded in 1963 by Stig Anderson and his friend Bengt Bernhag. Background The first act that Polar Music signed was the Hootenanny Singers featuring Björn Ulvaeus. Polar eventually gained prosperity pr ...

label in Sweden in early 1981. ''Stormvarning'' was an expanded and partly re-recorded version of the international album '' I'd Rather Write a Symphony'', released in West Germany and the Netherlands in 1980. The album includes a solo version of the 1980

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; ) is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almo ...

entry "Låt Solen Värma Dig", originally a duet with Rock De Luxe vocalist Annica Boller, Gärdestad's girlfriend at the time. The duet version remains unreleased on CD. The ''Stormvarning'' album also features the track that was to be Gärdestad's final hit single of the 1980s, "Låt Kärleken Slå Rot", produced by

Benny Andersson Göran Bror Benny Andersson (; born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals ''Chess (musical), Chess'', ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', and ''Mamm ...

and featuring

Anni-Frid Lyngstad Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad (born 15 November 1945), also known simply as Frida, is a Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA. Courtesy titles ''Principality of Reuss-Gera, Princess Re ...

on backing vocals.

Track listing

''All lyrics written by

Kenneth Gärdestad John Charles Kenneth Gärdestad (9 May 1948 – 3 March 2018) was a Swedish songwriter, best known for writing lyrics for the songs of his brother, Ted Gärdestad. He participated at Melodifestivalen 1979 as a songwriter for the winning song "S ...

, music by Ted Gärdestad'' Side A: #"Låt Kärleken Slå Rot" - 4:48 #"Stormvarning!" ("Mindblower") - 4:23 #"Don't Treat Me This Way" - 3:27 #"Slingan" - 1:51 #"You Got Me Dancing" - 4:04 #"The Reason" - 4:43 Side B: #"Ingen Annan Än Du" - 3:30 #"Låt Solen Värma Dig" (Solo version) - 3:33 #"How Do You Wanna Make Love" - 3:25 #"It's You" - 5:21 #"Down at the Zoo" (Alternate version) - 3:55 #"Orättvisan" - 3:57

Personnel

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, keyboards,

cymbal A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sou ...

s, strata *

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

, keyboards ("Låt Kärleken Slå Rot") *

Janne Schaffer Jan Erik Tage "Janne" Schaffer (born 24 September 1945) is a Swedish songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as a session guitarist for ABBA but he has also recorded with artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Art Farmer and To ...

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

s * Lasse Wellander - guitars * Kjell Öhman - piano * Björn J:son Lindh - piano, string arrangements * Per-Erik Hallin - piano * Wlodek Gulgowski - piano * Rutger Gunnarsson -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

* Stefan Brolund - bass guitar * Mike Watson - bass guitar * Sam Bengtsson - bass guitar * Åke Sundqvist -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Per Lindvall - drums * Ola Brunkert - drums * Lennart Östlund - strata * Ulf Andersson -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

Tomas Ledin Tomas Folke Jonas Ledin (; born 25 February 1952) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He grew up in the town of Sandviken, Sweden and has sold 3 million records. Career Tomas Ledin started his career in 1972 when ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

* Mikael Rickfors - backing vocals * Annica Boller - backing vocals * Diana Nunez - backing vocals * Maritza Horn - backing vocals * Liza Öhman - backing vocals * Py Bäckman - backing vocals * Agneta Olsson - backing vocals * Lasse Westman - backing vocals *

- backing vocals ("Låt Kärleken Slå Rot") * Lennart Sjödin - backing vocals ("Låt Kärleken Slå Rot")

Production

* Ted Gärdestad - producer * Lennart Östlund - producer * Benny Andersson - producer ("Låt Kärleken Slå Rot") * Michael B. Tretow - producer ("Orättvisan") * Leif Mases - sound engineer * Lennart Östlund - sound engineer * Recorded at

Polar Studios Polar Studios was a recording studio in Stockholm, Sweden, which operated from 1978 through 2004. The studio was formed by ABBA musicians Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and the band's manager Stig Anderson, owner of the Polar Music recording l ...

, Stockholm * Originally released as Polar POLS 310, 1981

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