Jonathan King much airtime to one person. King's 1971 releases included a version of Bob Dylan's "Baby, You've Been On My Mind", released as Nemo, which failed to chart; "The Sun Has Got His Hat On", also as Nemo; "Sugar, Sugar" as Sakkarin; "Leap Up and Down (Wave Your Knickers in the Air)" by St Cecelia (this one a real band, rather than a pseudonym), which went to number 12; and "Lazy Bones", "Flirt" and "Hooked On A Feeling" released under his own name. Bell Records asked King to produce four songs for the Bay City Rollers, including their first hit, "Keep
Synth-pop the UK and top 40 in the US. and Thompson Twins, whose popularity peaked in 1984 with the album "Into The Gap", which reached No.1 in the UK and the US top ten and spawned several top ten singles. Initially dismissed in the music press as a "teeny bop sensation" were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synth-pop, which, along with an MTV friendly video, took their 1985 single "Take On Me" to number two in the UK and number one in the US. Synth-pop continued into the late 1980s, with