Roger..this isn’t personal, it isn’t about you or me. I doesn’t matter that I get them and you don’t, or that Roger Benham is bored with most pop music, dismissing it as “other people’s”. You seem to miss the point of my posting about the fact that they have entered the annals of musical history, and that fact is incontrovertible, regardless of whether you or I love or hate them.

@Marionville Quite right. Maybe I should just say that being with a form of music seems to make it far more acceptable. The only A-Ha I have ever heard came from you introducing it. I once was an avid fan of the Rolling Stones at the same time friends over here were adoring the Grateful Dead. But I was hearing the Dead, not until I became great friends with a "Deadhead" in the mid 80's. He lent me tapes and neither I nor my British (at the time) wife liked them. Basically, I've been mostly away from pop music for 30 years and even the 80's I rarely listened to anything much as we only had one radio station (CBC).
So I've missed out on masses of recent pop music and really most radio-played music. We used to have a little folk music on Canadian radio but that left as public tastes changed and a much-loved announcer died. So I'm hardly aware of people like Sting.
I meet rock and punk musicians here at festivals and have jammed with both enjoyably ... unless they insist on doing cover tunes.
So I'm gathering that A-Ha have been around in Europe for ?30 years and are incredibly popular. Maybe I really should not comment on anything pop. Would you prefer that?

@rogerbenham No ...of course you can reply and comment to your heart’s content. No censorship in any of my groups.

@Marionville Phew. I got thrown out of a political group. No worries.
I'm hearing nasty stuff about Belfast. I'm sure it was much easier to create the EU border as the sea but it must feel odd to Loyalists being as if in a foreign country. I'm of course of Southern protestant stock so on the Eire side!

@rogerbenham The whole Brexit thing is a mess, anyone who lives here in NI and voted for it needs their head examined. The Unionist politicians are a very unattractive lot and as I’m a Brit I suppose I should really identify with them but I don’t. They are bigoted, nasty and small minded and not one of them represents me or what I stand for. I’d be quite relaxed about a united Ireland.

@Marionville I remember despising Paisley and the so terribly bigotted lot in the time of the Troubles. I was watching on TV in London. I thought that the Orange parade celebrating the battle of the Boyne was terribly antagonistic (though I rather liked the tune that they played). As children we'd mention the Black and Tans and my mother would get very upset. I felt Ryan's Daughter portrayed the Tans rather well. 4 years in the trenches and then "peace keeping"? In '89 I got stopped by British Army driving through NI in Omagh I think. No fun to encounter.. I also went through the Dublin/Belfast border. Freaky.