Four years before The Police recorded a song about the attraction between a teacher and a pupil, ABBA released a more lighthearted number about a student who is besotted with her tutor. Recorded as the opening track of their 1979 album Arrival, co-writer Benny Anderson has cited "I Kissed the Teacher" as one of his favorite ABBA songs.
The song originally had the working title of "Rio de Janeiro" before being renamed "When I Kissed the Teacher."
The music video saw Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad in school uniform over two decades before Britney Spears' famous schoolgirl look in "...Baby One More Time." The teacher was played by Swedish TV host Magnus Härenstam, who is best known in his native country for presenting their version of Jeopardy.
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