A-ha
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Report and Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 1 January 1986
Fireworks, gold discs, spots, a lot of snogging, an interview in a pub, a TV-am film crew and two very nosey people from Smash Hits... ...
Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 25 October 1986
HERE THEY are again. Norway's finest and the group who cleaned up after the chart fragmentation of Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran, a-ha ...
A-ha: WOOOOAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
Report by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 17 December 1986
A-ha play their first ever concert in Britain! The whole country goes 'wooooaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!" ...
A-ha: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 3 January 1987
TEENYBOP'S REDEEMERS ...
A-ha: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 January 1987
WHEN 3,000 prepubescent girls scream, pop analysis tends to gust into the dumper. Really, the scream is the only important thing, the moment when puffballs ...
Report and Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 3 June 1987
What are Curiosity Killed The Cat, Boy George, Whitney Houston, Beastie Boys, A-ha and three squillion other pop stars doing in a little town in ...
Are A-ha still the Greatest Pop Group in the World?
Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 1 July 1987
Three years ago they were penniless, living in London on salt and pepper sandwiches. Two years ago their first single 'Take On Me' had flopped ...
Report and Interview by Sylvia Patterson, Smash Hits, April 1988
Why are lots of "journalists" and "jugglers" waiting to get on a train to go and see A-ha playing live? Sylvia Patterson "investigates"... ...
A-Ha Have the Last Laugh on the Teeny Tag
Profile and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 14 December 1990
Groups come and go in a flash but the boys from Norway seem to have staying power. Lucy O'Brien reports ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Magne Foruholmen, b. 1 November 1962, Norway; Morten Harket, b. 14 September 1959, Norway; Pal Waaktar, b. 6 September 1963, Oslo ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, November 2005
IN 2005, there are few cooler pop names to drop than a-ha. Coldplay and Travis are not just avowed fans but sometime collaborators with the ...
a-ha: Even Better than Spinal Tap
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Music Week, September 2009
FOR 25 YEARS, Norway's pop gods have harboured a deep, dark secret that even the most dedicated News Of The World smut-sleuth would never have ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 6 August 2010
A DOUBLE CD celebrating the retirement, after 25 years, of what was once dismissed as a little more than a prototype Norwegian boy band seems ...
Their Valuable Hunting Life: The Rocky Road to A-Ha's Hunting High & Low
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 22 September 2015
Thirty years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low – and as they release a new album, Cast In Steel – Wyndham Wallace ...
The Highs and Lows of being a-ha
Retrospective and Interview by Jenny Valentish, Financial Times, 18 March 2016
How many farewell tours can one band have? Magne Furuholmen talks about stardom, group therapy — and why his music is more than just fluff. ...
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