Two for the Price of One

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For the television pricing game, see 2 for the Price of 1.
“Two for the Price of One”
album cover
album cover
Song by ABBA
Album The Visitors
Released November 30, 1981
Length 3:38
Label Polar (original release)
Writer Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Producer Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
The Visitors track listing
Side A
  1. "The Visitors"
  2. "Head Over Heels"
  3. "When All Is Said and Done"
  4. "Soldiers"
Side B
  1. "I Let The Music Speak"
  2. "One of Us"
  3. "Two for the Price of One"
  4. "Slipping Through My Fingers"
  5. "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room"

"Two For The Price of One" is the name of a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA in March 1981 for inclusion on their studio album The Visitors.

The song, the last lead vocal sung by Bjorn Ulvaeus, is about a lonely man who answers a personal ad offering "two for the price of one" - only to find that the two women involved are Alice Whiting and her mother.

[edit] Demo Version

A demo version of the song (only available on bootlegs) differs from the final version in many ways. The woman's name is Alex Lexy (to rhyme with "sexy"; this was changed in the final version to Whiting/exciting), and the punch line involving the mother is left out entirely.

The demo is considerably darker than the light-hearted final version. It is sung from a first-person perspective, and contains the overtly suicidal lyric "there's no romance in my life, sometimes I wish I had a knife." The last word was changed in the final version to "wife".