It was 1984, and British synth pop was in full swing, the likes of OMD, Depeche Mode, The Human League and Eurythmics torchbearers of the first real wave of electronica, but it was a German band that infiltrated the European airwaves with something truly unique.
Merging Moogs and Mellotrons may have been a template set by David Bowie and Roxy Music, but Munster’s Alphaville were piecing a sonic jigsaw puzzle like few others, and it’s debut album Forever Young, stands to this day as a bullet-proof synth pop masterpiece and all-time classic.
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