ABBA : “If It Wasn’t For The Nights“ (1979) • Unofficial Music Video • HD • HQ Audio

• Standard Volume Level • Lyrics Provided Below This performance is from The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show 1978, filmed on December 6th and broadcast on the 25th. This was four months before the song was released, and the version they mimed to was different to the version that would be released, but I have replaced the audio track with a high-quality, full-length one of the album track. The version they mimed to for this performance was a much shorter one, and to accompany the passages of music not included in it I have put several pictures on screen of the band from that time period, some of which are from the day it was filmed. I have not included all of the footage of the performance, because after the footage shown here ends, the remaining few seconds of the performance did not match the album track. There are some instances in which what we are seeing does not quite match what we are hearing. There are two times when we see Björn appearing to sing the word “make“ when what we