“”Love everyone,, Morten has just announced the painful news that he is ill. You can find more information on a-ha.com.. “
Magne Furuholmen writes that he and guitarist Pal Waaktaar-Savoy were inaugurated. However, he is optimistic that the 65-year-old Morten Harket will win the fight against the disease. And that for A-HA the last hour has not yet been gagging:
“The fact that we have known about Morten’s diagnosis for some time did not reduce the force of this blow, nor does it reduce the effects that this message had on us – as a person and as a band – and will continue to have.”
And further: “Our thoughts are primarily with Morten and his family in this difficult time in which they have to adjust to the changes that this disease brought into their lives.”
The future of A-ha will be based on Morten’s condition
In the end, Magne furuholms becomes conciliatory: “The news makes us sad, but despite the pain of all of this, it is worth thinking for what we can be grateful for: for all the wonderful memories, for the fact that our common creative efforts as a band were so generously accepted by the world, and how much luck we are that people in our musical legacy continue to find meaning, hope and joy.”
Finally, an outlook on the future of the band A-HA: “All future activities around A-HA will of course be coordinated in Morten’s situation, but together we will try to find ways of continuing to give you the best of us. Many thanks to you all for your support, your friendly words and your sympathy.”
Magne Furuholmen’s own disease history
Furuholm itself is a hard dog. Years ago he fought a life-threatening illness, as described in “A-Ha-The Movie”. To see in it: private, drastic recordings from the hospital, which his colleagues knew nothing about. Magne Furuholmen had to undergo heart surgery in the early years, suffered from atrial fibrillation, a cardiac arrhythmia. Not only the future of the band was at stake – he feared for his life.
“These scenes were hard for my children,” said Furuholmen in the Rolling-Stone interview. “I can not remember a lot of things that happened on the examination table. I was stunned. The fact that I was heard was heard, the nurses said to me, with a dose of the anesthetic that was too low. I woke up.”