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04 Jun 2025, 11:02 am

A-ha frontman Morten Harket has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

The news was announced on Wednesday on the Norwegian synth-pop band's official website, external in an article written by their biographer Jan Omdahl, which also revealed the singer had already undergone brain surgery twice.

Harket, 65, said he had "no problem accepting the diagnosis", adding: "With time, I've taken to heart my 94-year-old father's attitude to the way the organism gradually surrenders: 'I use whatever works'."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v56v0wry5o


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04 Jun 2025, 11:05 am

Too bad but at least he a constructive attitude about it.


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05 Jun 2025, 1:26 am

Yeah they're talking about it on the news now


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05 Jun 2025, 4:11 am

One hit wonder at least in the USA but I always liked the video for take on me.



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05 Jun 2025, 7:36 am

babybird wrote:
Yeah they're talking about it on the news now


Yeah, this popped up in my news feed yesterday.



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05 Jun 2025, 10:34 am

King Kat 1 wrote:
One hit wonder at least in the USA but I always liked the video for take on me.

More or a two hit wonder. ‘The Sun Always Shines on T.V.’ while not as popular in America as ‘Take on Me’ was still a hit song here. Elsewhere in world a number of other songs of theirs charted.


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