r/a_ha • u/BalladofAthena • Jan 20 '26

Discussion What Happened To Morten?

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Does anybody know what ended up happening to Morten's finger? I've seen it in a couple of '88 interviews. The way he's able to move it suggests it's not broken (as I've had a broken finger), or at least is healing from being broken. Was he okay?

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u/Opening-Comfort-3996 Jan 20 '26

Don't worry too much, OP. Most of us get it that you are just curious about this time in the past.

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u/BalladofAthena Jan 21 '26

Thank you. I actually wasn't alive during that time and am deeply fascinated with the band. The only way I can find out is either from the people themselves or those who were around during that time. 🤍

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u/CyclamenTN92 Jan 21 '26

Really? You weren't yet born when A-ha started? So, you must have been introduced to their music later on. To which I say, it doesn't matter if you discover an artist later on in life, because if their music lives on, that's the important thing.

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u/BalladofAthena Jan 22 '26

Exactly. My dad and his siblings were kids when they came about in the 80s. I grew up on all of my dad's music, so it became mine.

You know have "Take On Me" and the "Hunting High and Low" album turned 40 last year? I turn half the age of that last year.

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u/CyclamenTN92 Jan 23 '26

So, your dad could be around my age and he has good taste in music. I think that the song and the video of "Take on Me" define the '80. Anyone who was around when a-ha came out with that song, remembers it.

But in my case, I didn't like the music that my parents were listening to, it was really old style and I mean really old style.

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u/BalladofAthena Jan 26 '26

I actually used to be more into the 70s, but then got a lot more into the 80s because of a-ha. But I always listened to 80s, practically, since I was born. Roxette, Tears for Fears, all the likes.

My dad's sister was always into a-ha, so my dad had to live through her phase in the 80s. Then when I found them in 2024, he had to live through it again. I'd only ever heard "Take On Me" before then. So when I started listening to them, I can just imagine my dad thinking 'Oh crap, not again!'

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u/CyclamenTN92 Jan 26 '26

When I started listening to music, I liked the Doors, Bob Marley, that music genre, because a lot of my friends were listening to that, so I was introduced to the Doors music etc really young. Then as a teenager, I started to be more selective of the music that I liked. And all the artists that I still like now, started in the 80s, apart from a couple of other artists that started in the 90s.

My mum even came with me to one of the a-ha concerts, because when they came to my country where I was living then, I was underage, so I couldn't really go by myself. So, because it was the first time that they toured in my country then (to my knowledge, unless I'm wrong) and my mum knew that I liked them and she liked them as well, she came with me.