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| A-ha were involved in a couple of festivals and memorial concerts in Europe. A-ha continue their world tour in Rusia, Estonia, Norway and Tallin for the first time the last one. A-ha´s song "Velvet" was included in the soundtrack at the new movie of the norwegian director Harald Zwart, "One Night At McCool´s". About The Controversial Video: MORTEN HARKET:Usually is very boring to make music videos but with Harald Zwart, is very different. Harald is such a guy who like to take changes and then he get the people with him to take changes too, is really exciting to break the routines one usually have when making the the video and to do something totally different toghether with Harald. It is easy to take changes even if you have to lie totally unmoveless, also during the kiss scene. "I can garantee it wasn´t only my body that was moveless, there was nothing moving beetween my legs either" (laughs Morten). About the video wich got delayed credit when getting the "Spellmannpris" as the best video of the year. MTV CENSURED VELVET. The chanel MTV censured "VELVET" because they argue that a-ha was playing with aserious theme "The Necrophilia", some other musical chanel denied to transmit the video just only after midnight. Morte: "I don´t understand, why the video was connectedd with "Necrophilia", I talked with children who had seen the video and they only said: "That´s a-ha playing dead", like when the kids do it, is not so complicated for them". Harald: We didn´t think in "Necrophilia" at all when we made the video, i was trying to showed the moment, when the soul left the body. Besides that the video is about a guy who still loves a woman even after shot him and he is dying. actually these is the message of the film "One Night at McCools" said Zwart. Morten: All woman kill you in the end, smiles Morten. (Who is one of the club, deffinitly; The voice of the experience). |
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| A-ha assisted to the Quart festival in Kristiansand. One of the movies shown here is Harald Zwart´s. "One Night at McCools". Magne Furuholmen made his debut as solo singer in a new norwegian movie. "Dragonfly", also he opened his pictures exhibition . Fourth album of Savoy "Reason To Stay Indoors" was released by EMI Norway. |
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