Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You / Part 2 – The Blood That Moves the Body / Part 3 – The Sun Never Shone That Day / Part 4 – Sycamore Leaves / Part 5 – Shapes That Go Together / Part 6 – Lie Down in Darkness ANALOGUE (ALL I WANT) “Can I have four pints plea…” Morten Harket started to ask the barman. […]
Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You / Part 2 – The Blood That Moves the Body / Part 3 – The Sun Never Shone That Day / Part 4 – Sycamore Leaves / Part 5 – Shapes That Go Together Lie Down In Darkness “I’m tired,” grumbled Morten Harket as his wife shook him gently. “Come on, dear,” she said lovingly. “It’s not […]
Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You Part 2 – The Blood That Moves the Body Part 3 – The Sun Never Shone That Day Part 4 – Sycamore Leaves Shapes That Go Together Morten Harket stood at the bus stop across the street from his modest suburban home. Autumn was kicking in now and leaves […]
Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You Part 2 – The Blood That Moves the Body Part 3 – The Sun Never Shone That Day Sycamore Leaves Morten Harket stared out of his bedroom window at the sycamore leaves gathering on the street. “What if a-ha had written a song about these leaves?” he said, half-joking. […]
Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You Part 2 – The Blood That Moves the Body The Sun Never Shone That Day Morten Harket stood in the men’s department of famous international superstore, Bloominghell’s. “Welcome to Bloominghell’s!” enthused a dapper young man who was clearly making a rather embarrassing attempt to grow a mustache years before […]
Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You The Blood that Moves the Body It had been a full week since Morten Harket’s unsuccessful job interview at the Acme Bank Company. The words of the bespectacled manager Ron McDonald echoed in his brain: “how can I stop now”… “Indeed,” he thought to himself, “how can I stop […]
It seems that about six years ago I wrote seven ‘shorts’ about a man called Morten Harket who wasn’t the guy from a-ha. Morten was not complicated. He was a nice man with a loving wife and all he wanted was to work, pay the bills and try and get through a day without somebody bringing up […]
After 25 years in the industry, a-ha will sign off on December 4th 2010 with their final ever show. The Oslo gig – which sold out within two hours – will be attended by fans from all over the world and promises to be a very emotional occasion for both fans and the band. So, with […]
Depending on which re-written press release you read today you’ll learn that a-ha were formed anywhere from 25 to 27 years ago, split up in the nineties for anywhere from five to seven years and got back together in 1998 – or is that 1999? No, it was 2000 apparently. What you will unanimously learn and […]
It must have seemed like déjà vu for Morten Harket and Magne Furuholmen, two-thirds of rock band a-ha, as they sat on the GMTV breakfast time couch in London on Friday morning. The scene was set when presenter Emma Crosby – somewhat understandably given the universal reference point – started the interview with a “Take […]
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