Norell, who penned along with Hakansson most songs of the band, however, did not appear with them on stage or on the album covers. Secret Service's first single "Oh Susie" became a hit in Sweden and several other countries of Europe and South America (#1 in Sweden, #6 in Norway, #9 in Germany, #27 in France, etc.). The same titled album that included another hit, "Ten O'Clock Postman" (#4 in Germany, #8 in Austria, #18 in Sweden, etc.), went gold in Sweden. Other successes followed, with their synthpop number "Flash in the Night" (1982, their greatest success) hitting the charts all over continental Europe (#5 in France, #6 in Norway, #9 in Switzerland, #12 in Italy, #12 in Sweden, #23 in Germany, etc.). In the mid-'80s Norell and Hakansson started writing and producing songs for other artists. Ola Hakansson's duet with ex-ABBA's Agnetha Faltskog, "The Way You Are," became a gold single in Sweden.
In 1987, Hakansson, Norell, and Wahlberg released Aux Deux Magots, their last album as Secret Service. The other members of the band had quit by then and were replaced by multi-instrumentalist Anders Hansson and bassist Mats A. Lindberg. Hakansson would become Norell's partner with Army Of Lovers' Alexander Bard in what would be known as the Megatrio, a Swedish equivalent to Stock-Aitken-Waterman known as Norell Oson Bard. In 1992, Hakansson and his associates established Stockholm Records as a joint venture with PolyGram. They produced such artists as Army Of Lovers and The Cardigans, among others.
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