![]() ![]() “Take On Me”, after being re-recorded, hit the world’s charts in 1985. ![]() At the end of the year they signed with Warner Brothers. They returned in 1983 – with Morten – and concentrated on honing their music, recording demo after demo in a south London studio. Thankfully, cameras were there to capture a-ha as they bowed out at the end of 2010.īack in 1982, Magne and Pål came to London to see if their music could make its way abroad. We end with victory”.īut not everyone could make it to Oslo. Speaking to the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten, Morten added “I do not feel any sadness. This is the end, but it is also a beginning. “It doesn’t kill the music”, says Morten Harket. “It could have lasted two years, it lasted more than 25. “It was always an adventure”, says Magne Furuholmen. Twenty-five years on, a-ha had decided that it was over. But it was even more than that – the final show from the band that had found worldwide success in 1985. ![]() “It’s always special to play your home town…there seems to be people coming from so many corners of the world”, noted Pål Waaktaar-Savoy. Three German fans wore shirts saying you made the soundtrack of our lives. “We want to be part of this farewell”, said a fan from Seattle. Sub-zero temperatures weren’t going to keep anyone away. Even though farewells had already been said in their home countries, the audience at Oslo’s Spektrum included fans from England, India, Mexico, South Korea, the USA, Spain, Germany, Canada, Italy – every place where a-ha had touched people. The band had played South and North America, Europe and Asia. Exactly nine months earlier, on 4 March, a-ha had set out on their Farewell Tour, also billed as Ending On A High Note. It came to an end on 4 December 2010 when Norway’s capital city hosted a-ha’s final show. ![]()
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