"Eagle" was released on 2nd of May 1978 only in a limited number of territories as a single and in France as a double A-side with "Thank You for the Music".
Eagle was the third and last official single from ABBA: The Album and a kind of tribute to a band that Benny and Björn admired at the time, The Eagles.
"Eagle" was not released as a single in the United Kingdom.
It was meant to be a U.S. single, but then withdrawn.
Eagle topped the charts in Belgium .
It was number 2 in South Africa, 4 in the Netherlands, 6 in Germany, 7 in Switzerland, 16 in France, 17 in Austria.
Björn was inspired by Richard Bach's 1970 novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull when he wrote the lyrics for this song.
In later years, music critics have hailed "Eagle" as one of ABBA's more outstanding tracks in terms of lyrics.
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