page_title: The Day Before You Came
section_title: Music video
hierarchical_section_title: The Day Before You Came / Music video
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Östra Årstabron
context_page_description: "The Day Before You Came" is a song recorded and released by Swedish pop group ABBA, their second longest at almost six minutes in length. It was originally released in 1982 as both a single and a track on the compilation album The Singles: The First Ten Years. Although it was the final ABBA recording until 2018, the song released as their final single was "Under Attack", which also featured on the singles compilation album.
context_section_description: The song was promoted by a music video clip filmed on 21 September 1982, and directed by the team of Kjell Sundvall and Kjell-Åke Andersson, breaking ABBA's eight-year directing relationship with Lasse Hallström.  The video featured Agnetha flirting with a stranger on a train, played by Swedish actor Jonas Bergström as Fältskog's love interest.
  The bridge seen in the video clip is the Årstabron bridge, located in the southern part of Stockholm.  Within the context of the music video, the train on the bridge actually goes in the wrong direction.  In the clip, Agnetha waits at Tumba station for the train and ends up in the city.  However, in reality the train seen on the bridge goes from the city to Tumba.  The parts of the video featuring all the members of ABBA were filmed at the China Theatre in Stockholm, nearby the Polar Music offices located in Berzelii Park.  There were several photo sessions done during filming at the theatre.  One of them, known as "the green session", was taken in the theatre's foyer.
  Christopher Patrick, in ABBA: Let The Music Speak, says the final sequence in the music video, in which "the train [where the narrator meets her lover] shunts off into oblivion, leaving in its wake a bleak and deserted railway station", is a fitting metaphor for ABBA, having reached the end of their creative partnership.
caption: Train crossing the Eastern Årsta Bridge.
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