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Let ourselves be photographed in the most humiliating setting.”Īs had happened earlier to ABBA, while parts of Europe feted them for smuggling Scandinavian angst into the pop charts, the UK and USA in No matter how cheesy we thought it was, we turned up. We were very naïve about what we had to protect, what was unique about us.”įuruholmen added: “We just went with the flow and it’s nobody else’s fault that we became a teen band. Remained in a way that none of us could identify with at all. They did any impressions (“no”) and to name their favourite possessions (“I don’t really know… maybe my camera”).Īs Harket admits in a-ha: The Movie, released last year: “We ended up wrapped in packaging. On YouTube, where the Take On Me video has racked up 1.5 billion views, you can watch them squirming on Saturday Superstore, being asked if But just as Boy George quickly went from Vivienne Westwood-clad outsider style icon to guest star on The A-Team, a-ha soonįound themselves locked in a regular flow of uncomfortable-looking photoshoots for teen magazines and popular music publications like Smash Heep and found themselves rubbing up against the heroes of the New Retrieved 29 December 2017.It was perplexing for a group that had arrived in London in the early 1980s touting heavyweight influences like the Velvet Underground and Uriah ^ "Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 2017" (in German).^ " – a-ha – MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice".^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100".Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. ^ "Official IFPI Charts – Top-75 Albums Sales Chart (Week: 43/2017)".^ " – a-ha – MTV Unplugged – Summer Solstice" (in German).^ " – a-ha – MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice" (in Dutch).Note: On the chart page, select 201741 on the field besides the word "Zobrazit", and then click over the word to retrieve the correct chart data. ^ "Ultratop.be – a-ha – MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice" (in French).^ "Ultratop.be – a-ha – MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice" (in Dutch).^ "Austriancharts.at – a-ha – MTV Unplugged - Summer Solstice" (in German).: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

^ MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice (liner notes)."Official Charts Analysis: Liam Gallagher debuts at No.1 with more than 100,000 album sales". Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. ^ "a-ha announce two intimate acoustic shows in June".Paul Waaktaar-Savoy – acoustic guitar, backing vocals.Magne Furuholmen – upright piano, harpsichord, celesta, acoustic guitar, flute, backing vocals."Killing Moon" is originally from Echo & the Bunnymen's album Ocean Rain (1984).Ĭredits adapted from the liner notes of MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice."Sox of the Fox" was originally recorded as "The Vacant" on the 1980 album Fakkeltog by the band Bridges (previous band of Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen and for whom the former was its lead singer at the time)." Summer Moved On" (featuring Alison Moyet) Will Sergeant, Ian McCulloch, Les Pattinson, Pete de Freitas " The Killing Moon" (featuring Ian McCulloch) "Scoundrel Days" (featuring Ian McCulloch)