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==Relevance== | ==Relevance== | ||
Morrissey has made several references to the band.<br> | Morrissey has made several references to the band.<br> | ||
From [https://youtu.be/Jhg6v0W1wGs "Morrissey In Conversation"] (1987):<br> | From [https://youtu.be/Jhg6v0W1wGs "Morrissey In Conversation"] (with Muriel Gray, 1987):<br> | ||
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“I went to see a-ha in America. I really liked their records, but when I saw them it was this constant deafening squeal. Not even a respectable scream; it was an indecent squeal which completely drowned out the musicians… and which totally threw them off their racks because they seemed totally embarrassed by all these screaming girls.” | “I went to see a-ha in America. I really liked their records, but when I saw them it was this constant deafening squeal. Not even a respectable scream; it was an indecent squeal which completely drowned out the musicians… and which totally threw them off their racks because they seemed totally embarrassed by all these screaming girls.” | ||
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He sang a brief part of [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9M-4qpdE_Y "The Sun Always Shines On TV"] at the Quart Festival, Kristiansand - July 5, 2004.<br> | |||
Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy - July 14, 2006:<br> | Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy - July 14, 2006:<br> | ||
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"So tonight we make our way to Rome... by foot... and it's the first time I will sing there since I was in a-ha in the eighties..." | "So tonight we make our way to Rome... by foot... and it's the first time I will sing there since I was in a-ha in the eighties..." | ||
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Morten Harket said of Morrissey: | |||
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"He almost had an erection around me! We met up in New Orleans sometime in the Eighties… he thought it was a bit difficult I think, the whole thing. He said something… I thought he was decidedly on the gay side." | |||
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(From: [https://www.vg.no/rampelys/musikk/i/Lwoa9/morten-harket-morrissey-hadde-store-ereksjonsutfordringer-i-mitt-naervaer "Verdens Gang"], translated Norwegian interview, 2012). | |||
[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Music]] | [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Music]] | ||
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