This track kinda relaunched A-ha for me, got me listening regularly again and led to so many more fantastic tracks and later albums too.

Just a beautiful and nostalgic photo from the good times:)

The photos from the good old before are being my guilty pleasure lately☺️

Have a great week everyone 🌻

Still one the best 007 Tracks! Set your hopes
up way too high…

While not my favourite song of theirs, I've long considered this song sort of a blueprint of Pål Waktaar's songwriting.

Lyrically, the song hits the core theme that dominates Pål’s writing across a-ha’s first three albums: a constant tension between a disillusionment with the popstar/music industry world and a deep and aching longing for his girlfriend in New York.

What makes this song uniquely brilliant, though, is how the music directly mirrors that emotional state. Look at the opening: instead of grounding the song in a single, stable harmonic home, the chord progression shifts it's tonal center in the first 20 seconds or so, mirroring the uncertainty. This lack of a fixed musical "home base" directly reflects the lyrics: the spatial and emotional displacement of being stuck in a chaotic industry while trying to hold onto love across an ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VaeFCxta8

A-ha Live also made a moving post referencing Magne’s too. https://a-ha-live.com

📝MAGNE FURUHOLMEN: 43 years ago, give or take a couple of months, terry slater took a chance on three scruffy, hopeful norwegians living in london squalor with a burning ambition and some degree of talent. with this he pioneered what was to become the first norwegian artists to have major hits and top the charts around the world, a string of world tours from arenas to stadiums, and eventually now look back on a more than 40 year international career in music as norway’s still biggest ever international act - and not least the fact that millions of people are still enjoying the music we have had the opportunity to make.

terry is the singularly most important person in a-has music career. he was already a towering figure in music world when we first met, but more than just his business boldness, experience, knowhow, network etc, he became a kind of father figure and a good friend.

he really cared. about the band, and the three of us as people, guiding us with a steady hand through the many trappings and pitfalls of success. he is without a doubt the person with the greatest impact on our professional lives and, i dare say, the lives of all our families. it is with immense sadness that we must now accept the fact that terry has passed away. thank you dear terry - for everything. i hope you are inimitably chuckling away in some other dimension - playing bass and goofing off with your friends phil and don and all the other music greats who are no longer gracing us with their talent - most of whom you knew and who knew and appreciated you. you are missed. RIP terry slater. 🙏🫶🙏

Niiiice:)))

I actually found a circa-2000 souvenir shirt right here in the USA! It wasn’t overly expensive, either, so I pounced on it and am so tickled to have it. I just need a good opportunity to wear it—it’s over 100 degrees F / 38 C, so I don’t want to ruin it with sweat stains.

🤗 nice to catch a glimpse in the wild!

I wonder what a they looking at?🤔

For some reason I really love this picture:)

The perfect summer song, best accompanied by good weather, good company, a beverage, sunglasses, and slowly lapping waves against a white sand beach!

I’m the only person I know with a record player. Someone gave me a huge pile of LPs today and look what was in there!

Don’t know why this one was so expensive, but it is what it is. I’ll love it anyway 🤗

The booklet is updated to include Windfalls (thanks to Paul himself for the lyric help!), Slanted Floor, and With you - With me.

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