Shine - the album

The album "Shine" was released in Sweden in September 1984. It contained 10 songs including two real rarities: the song "Slowly" written by Benny Andersson and Bj�rn Ulvaeus as well as Frida's own composition "Don't Do It".  Even the French singer and composer Daniel Balavoine (who had performed together with Frida the ABBAcadabra duet "Belle" in 1983) contributed with one song "The Face". The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite and his studio musicians played almost all instruments. The only musician from the ABBA family was Ruger Gunnarsson who played bass on the title song and "Chemistry Tonight". The album contained both modern up-tempo songs as "Shine" , "One Little Lie" and "Chemistry Tonight" and some beautiful ballads: "Come To Me", "Slowly", "Don't Do It" or "Comfort Me" which can be maybe called for "Shine's" "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" - a very different song with a very special sound and interpretation which suits Frida very good. Two songs which are quite difficult to understand musically are "Twist in the Dark" and "Heart of the Country" - two interesting compositions but definitely wrong choice for single releases.

In Sweden the album "Shine" entered the chart on September 28th, 1984 and stayed there for 10 weeks peaking at #6.

Maxi single

Polar in Sweden released maxi single "Shine" in white vinyl. Side A featured a maxi version of Shine with length of 6.27 - the same mix was released in all European maxi singles..

Promo postcard / K�peslap

Shine - the album

1984-ben 30 �ve jelent meg Frida albuma.

Az albumon tal�lhat� k�t k�l�nlegess�g az egyik Bj�rn, Benny szerzem�nye Slowly �s egy dal, amit Frida �rt Don't do it.

Az albumr�l a Polar Kiad� k�l�nleges feh�r maxi lemezt adott ki.