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A-ha frontman Morten Harket shares diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease

The singer announced the news on the band’s website urging fans not to worry about him and ‘spend your energy and effort addressing real problems’

Morten Harket, the lead singer of Norwegian synth-pop group A-ha, has announced that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There’s so much to weigh up when you’re emulating the masterful way the body handles every complex movement, or social matters and invitations, or day-to-day life in general.” Harket said that he didn’t hope to regain “full technical control” over his vocals but that he had been working on songs “that I’ve got great belief in, and I feel the lyrics, especially, have something of a different aspect of me in them.

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