A-HA IS READY FOR THE WORLD! IS THE WORLD READY FOR THEM?
Outside in the rain there’s a couple of dripping London bobbies gaping at a couple of hundred teenage girls who look like they’ve been put through the rinse cycle once too often, and scream like David Lee Roth sings every time a face appears at the window!
A-HA IS READY FOR THE WORLD! IS THE WORLD READY FOR THEM?
Sylvie Simmons
Outside in the rain there’s a couple of dripping London bobbies gaping at a couple of hundred teenage girls who look like they’ve been put through the rinse cycle once too often, and scream like David Lee Roth sings every time a face appears at the window! Which could, of course, have something to do with the faces belonging to the barely-pronounceable, unbearablyperfect Magne Furuholmen, Pal Waaktaar and Morten Harket, more sensibly known as A-Ha. They’re up here announcing their first tour—a world tour—that takes in five continents, 25 million people, and that lasts nine months, almost three of them (August through October) in America, and they’re “excited.” Though no more excited than the network of fans outside, who discovered the whereabouts of this “secret” event and are dissolving in puddles of happy drool as I talk to Mags, Pal and Mort...