Hung Up on Madonna – Gimme Gimme Gimme ABBA
Something has been bugging me since I watched the Grammy’s last week. You know how it goes – you hear a snippet of a song on the radio, at the mall or on the TV. You know you know it, and you want to hear it again in it’s entirety – but for the life of it, you can’t damn well remember what it is.
Well that’s what happened to me last week. I really liked Madonna’s performance and loved the song “Hung Up” which I’d not heard before, and it sounded very familiar and retro and I knew she’d borrowed the backing from something that I must have heard a hundred times as a kid.
I’ve been trawling my ripped CD collection, tried Googling when something sprung to mind, and browsed Amazon to no avail.
So, just a moment ago, it popped into my head – It was Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! by Abba
And of course, now I know the answer I can find thousands of hits when Googling for it, including this one where they write on how she had to beg Abba to let her use the track.
I can now sleep tonight knowing that all is right with the world 
ABBA has the best catalog in the history of music. ABBA will go on long after Madonna is forgotten.