A-ha frontman Morten Harket has revealed he has Parkinson’s disease. The Norwegian band shared a press release on their own website telling fans of the news and said Morten has been "battling his own body" in recent years.

It added: “This isn’t the sort of news anyone wants to deliver to the world , but here it is: Morten has Parkinson’s disease.”

In his own interview on the band’s official website, Harket, 65, said he had initially kept the degenerative condition private but has now decided to tell fans.

He said: “I’ve got no problem accepting the diagnosis. With time I’ve taken to heart my 94-year-old father’s attitude to the way the organism gradually surrenders: ‘I use whatever works.’

“Part of me wanted to reveal it. Like I said, acknowledging the diagnosis wasn’t a problem fo

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