First viewed : 1992
Cue the Music on late night ITV was simply a gig broadcast with a redundant link at the beginning.
I can only recalling taping two. The first was Latin Quarter from the mid-eighties with link by Supersonic's Mike Mansfield. The other was A-Ha from 1991 introduced in tiresomely unfunny fashion by Tony Slattery.. The band had fallen out of favour in the UK by then but were absolutely huge in South America and this was one of their stadium gigs in Brazil. Morten Harket had grown his hair long and grouchy guitarist Pal Waaktar was still fairly outgoing at this point.
My knowledge of a-Ha doesn't go much further than a (very good) compilation - is there a reason Waaktar turned a tad stroppy?
ReplyDeleteWell nothing that obvious. A-Ha embarked on their first hiatus in 1994-2000 and he concentrated on the band Savoy, named after and featuring his wife Lauren Savoy. They released three albums to not much interest before A-Ha reconvened in 2000 and since then he's not done interviews and doesn't have a microphone on stage. Perhaps it's just frustration that he has to keep going back to A-Ha to bring home the bacon.
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