Artist: Secret Service
Genre(s):
Pop
Dance
Discography:
The Very Best Of Secret Service
Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
Spotlight
Year: 1990
Tracks: 17
Sportlight
Year: 1988
Tracks: 18
Aux Deux Magots
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
When The Night Closes In
Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
Jupiter Sign
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Cutting Corners
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
Ye Si Ca
Year: 1981
Tracks: 13
Oh Susie
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Dance Hits and Remixes
Year:
Tracks: 21
Collection
Year:
Tracks: 21
In 1979, Ola HÃ¥kansson, a early singer of Ola & the Janglers and then a publication manager at Sonet Records, teamed up with Tim Norell and Ulf Wahlberg to write a few songs that they submitted to the Melodifestivalen, a popular Swedish song contest. They did not win simply distinct to go forward working together and changed their band's name from Ola+3 to Secret Service. Besides Ola HÃ¥kansson (vocals), Tim Norell and Ulf Wahlberg (keyboards), the original lineup included Tony Lindberg (guitars), Leif Paulsen (bass) and Leif Johansson (drums).
Norell, world Health Organization penned along with Håkansson most songs of the ring, yet, did not appear with them on stage or on the album covers. Secret Service's first individual "Oh Susie" became a hit in Sweden and respective other countries of Europe and South America. The same titled record album that included another hit, "Ten O'Clock Postman," went gold in Scandinavia. Other successes followed, with their synthpop number "Flash in the Night" (1982) hit the charts all over continental Europe. In the mid-'80s Norell and Håkansson started writing and producing songs for other artists. Ola Håkansson's couple with ex-ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog, "The Way You Are," became a gold individual in Sweden.
In 1987, HÃ¥kansson, Norell, and Wahlberg released Aux Deux Magots, their last album as Secret Service. The other members of the ring had relinquish by then and were replaced by multi-instrumentalist Anders Hansson and bassist Mats A. Lindberg. Hansson would become HÃ¥kansson and Norell's collaborator in what would be known as the Megatrio, a Swedish equivalent to Stock-Aitken-Waterman. In 1992, HÃ¥kansson and his associates conventional Stockholm Records as a joint venture with PolyGram. They produced such artists as Army of Lovers and the Cardigans among others.
