Live Cover Performances
- Swedish singer/musician Tommy Körberg has performed the song in various live performances.
- Australian singer-songwriter Tina Arena performed the song live during the Night of the Proms tour in 2006.
- American singer-songwriter Jade Villalon performed the song live during the FIFA World Cup in 2006.
- American singer Faith Hill covered the song during her Soul2Soul 2007 Tour. She reprised her performance for ABBA's induction into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame in March 2010.
- The song is performed in second act of the Mamma Mia! musical by the character of Donna. In the context of the musical, the song is used when Donna professes how much she loves Sam, but she cannot forgive entirely for what he did. She also, believing him still married, says "the rules must be obeyed" meaning she couldn't be with a married man.
- The song was sung on Australian Idol season 6 by Thanh Bui during Abba week.
- McFly performed the song at the VISA London 2012 Olympic Visa Party in front of Buckingham Palace in London on 24 August 2008.
- Arianna Afsar sang the song on American Idol season 8 in the third group of the Top 36.
- Icelandic singer Yohanna sung the song as an interval act for Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2010
- Australian singer Laura Clark performed the song live in the Strathfield Musical Society's Songs From Stage To Screen.
- In 2010, pianist and composer, Avi Amon, recorded a jazz cover of the song with vocalist Allie Myers as a part of the CIRCLE collaborative art project. The cover appears as a bonus track on their first album, "Winter of Creativity".
- In 2012, English band The Vaccines covered the song on their live acoustic EP album; Please, Please Do Not Disturb.
- In 2012, English boy band Union J covered the song in week 8 of the live shows of the ninth series of The X Factor.
- In 2013, Greek Singer Natassa Bofiliou covered the song during the run of her show "The Passage of the Magicians".
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