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

'''Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)''' is the title of a song recorded and released by Swedish group ABBA.

The track was a brand new song which had not featured on the group's Voulez Vous album released earlier in the year, although Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! carries on with the disco style explored by the group on the album. As a disco track, the song is longer than most standard 7" singles of the time, with an overall timing of 4:45. A long instrumental section in the song creates a kind of 'extended version' which were becoming popular as dance tracks.

Single release
The track was released as single a few weeks prior to the group's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 compilation album, launched for the lucrative Christmas market.

The single reached no.3 in the UK, kept off the top spot by One Day at a Time by Lena Martell and Doctor Hook's When You're In Love With a Beautiful Woman. It spent a total of 8 weeks in the Top 40. The promo video was featured twice on Top of the Pops.

Tracklisting
UK 7", EPIC S EPC 7914

A. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (4:45)

B. The King Has Lost His Crown (3:30)

US 7" ATLANTIC 3652

A. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (3:35)

B. The King Has Lost His Crown (3:30)

Promo video
The promo video for the single shows the group performing and recording the song at Polar Studios in Stockholm.

Other versions

 * a live version of the song recorded on the 1979 tour appears on Live (1986) and Live at Wembley Arena (2014).
 * the song features in the Mamma Mia! musical and film and was the first to be released from the movie OST.
 * notable cover versions have been recorded by Erasure, Sisters of Mercy, The Leather Nun and A-Teens.

Samples

 * The song's characteristic synthesiser riff and baisc rhythm were sampled by Madonna for her 2005 hit Hung Up.