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A-HA attending several big tours since Europe to South America to promote "East Of The Sun West Of The Moon". Where they broke the attendance record for the biggest crowd at the Rock In Río Festival. A-ha released their fifth album called "Memorial Beach". The album won numerous awards across the world. Q magazine named "Memorial Beach", one of the top 50 albums of the year and won the price of the introspective type album some of the best musical magazines report that, Pal Waaktaar and Furuholmen were premier songs writers. |
About the video MTV USA. Refered to "Dark Is The Night", as too disturbing for viewers and refused for air it more; A false moral showed for the american conscience because if we remenber they are a big creators of TV programs with high contents in violence, sex and pornographic films. Any way depite of the USA Problems: "Memorial Beach", was once again a beautiful video with a very delicious song. |
In that time Morten Harket, worked on his first solo proyect called "Poetenes Evangelium". Wich is an album made up enterely of old Norwegian folk and poetry songs. The contents of this album it was dedicated enterely about the life of Christ, the album was done in his native tongue. |
In this album Morten showed to his fans the great respect he had for his background and religion. With A-ha and his own work Morten had time to record a song for the soundtrack of the movie "Coneheads" , he remake a cover of the song of Frankie Vallie´s song: "Can´t Take My Eyes Of You". |
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