Newly Remastered Deluxe 180g Vinyl 2LP Edition!

When a-ha took a seven-year break after their fifth album Memorial Beach was released in 1993 each of the members, Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Pål Waaktaar-Savoy, pursued their own interests and arts until they were invited to perform on the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo. a-ha performed two songs and were suddenly back and in perfect time for the millennium when they released their spectacular No. 1 album Minor Earth | Major Sky in 2000. They hit the ground running with a well-received world tour before taking flight once again with 2002's Lifelines. a-ha had finally returned on the scene! Warner/Rhino reissues these two millennium comeback albums in newly remastered deluxe vinyl 2LP editions.

With 2002's Lifelines a-ha proved they were as brilliant as ever, if not even better than their first run of the mid-80s and early-90s. Time had moved on, things had grown: Magne was working with visual arts as well as music, Pål's band Savoy had released their fourth album Reasons to Stay Indoors (2001), and Morten had developed a successful solo career and had become a songwriter on his own.

"Morten had made a move to suggest we should write together," reveals Magne. "That was the beginning of a new kind of partnership." For Lifelines each band member contributed his personal compositions to the album, which finally was produced by six different producers including Stephen Hague, Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley and Martin Landquist. Anneli Drecker gave her beautiful voice to some of the songs. As their most varied, versatile and multicolored album, Lifelines gained international critical respect and went No. 1 in Germany.