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Jan 8, 2021 · VG-Lista 60 år: Tomine Harket - Paid My Dues. Morten Harket has three children with his ex-wife Camilla Malmquist Harket. Morten and Camilla were married from 1989 to 1998. Their three kids are Jakob Oscar Martinus Malmquist Harket (born 1989), Jonathan Henning Adler Malmquist Harket (born 1990), and Anna Katharina Tomine Malmquist Harket ...
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Morten Harket (Norwegian pronunciation: [mʊ̂ʈːn̩ ˈhɑ̀ɾkət]; born 14 September 1959 [1]) is a Norwegian singer who is the lead vocalist of the synth-pop band a-ha. a-ha has released 11 studio albums as of 2024, and topped the charts internationally after their breakthrough hit " Take On Me " in 1985. [ 2 ]
- The Golden Age of Pop Overshadowed by A Supernova
- Beyond The Music Video
- The Man with Dulux Paint in His Hair
- Opportunity Presents Itself
- Just as We Were
As for Magne Furuholmen, the group’s keyboard player - and rumored to be the leader behind the scenes - has a compelling reason to loathe his signature song: “[It’s] a light so bright that [it] obscures the rest of our songs.” Furuholmen talks about tracks that only the band’s most stalwart fans will remember at this point, such as Stay on These Ro...
If you ask Barron, he’ll tell you that it was the video that made the song… and, for that matter, the band’s budding career. There are solid reasons that would support this thesis. For instance, 37 years later, Take on me is one of the most viewed video clips in history. On YouTube alone, it already exceeds 1.3 billion views, consolidating it as on...
They tried to fill this missing role as early as 1981, according to Furuholmen, by making an “unrefusable” offer (”come with us and you’ll be the leader of our band”) to the coolest guy they knew, another Norwegian named Morten Harket, who, like them, frequented London hoping to break into the music industry: “He had a great voice, but that was the...
The London they found in 1983 was no longer the London of 1981. The leading clubs were moving away from the New Romantic orthodoxy once it had broken into the mainstream, thanks to bands like Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. A new breed of technopop bands were taking over, reclaiming some of the sass and avant-garde energy of punk. A-ha fit like a g...
Today, as the documentary dedicated to A-ha’s long journey shows, very little remains of the friendship that thrived during the group’s early years. In Harket’s words, they are “three skilled professionals condemned to understand each other.” Theirs must already be one of the longest marriages of convenience in pop history. A band built up as a veh...
Apr 2, 2014 · Morten Harket was born on September 14, 1959, in Kongsberg, Norway, the second of five children. ... The video concept was the brainchild of Warner Brothers Senior Vice President Jeff Ayeroff, who ...
The Lyrics. The lyrics of “Brother” convey a powerful message of love, acceptance, and the unbreakable bond of family ties. Morten Harket’s emotive voice brings these heartfelt words to life, leaving a lasting impact on the listener. In the first verse, the lyrics state, “You are still my brother, till the end of time.
Biography. “It really is a very different place to be now,” says Morten Harket of his current mind-set and new album Brother. “I feel very strong about Brother. I might have wanted a good, solid break after my last album Out Of My Hands and all the work. But I didn’t feel like that.
Mar 17, 2014 · From the forthcoming album from Morten Harket, 'Brother', which will be released on April 11 in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Norway, and on April 14 in ...
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