[Leif Mortensen]

Also a best wish for your birthday with many happy returns. Hope you are spoiled – a bit – by your parents – you deserve it. Looking forward to new music from you – hopefully with a possibillity to buy it in the EU – Amazon DE.

[Leif Mortensen]

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Ah – I know what you mean – the actor Viggo Mortensen – no I’ve nothing to do with him. Mortensen is a common Danish surname-but thanks for asking.

[Leif Mortensen]

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Thanks for the welcome. I have a brother called Carl Viggo Mortensen – he is 78 years old. If it’s the same – where do you know him from?

[Leif Mortensen]

It depends – to me – what age you’re in. I bought my first Beatles record – Please Please me in 1963 14 year old and first year on boarding school and I was really impressed by that record it was something new AND NOT Elvis. I collected chewing gum pictures – not very healthy. Collected the following years every record they issued and while I grew older interests and best album changed. Really liked Beatles for sale – then came Rubber soul which I liked a lot came along with my first real girlfriend and many times Rubber soul was on the record player -specially Michelle and Girl were cosy little tunes. Then I started in High school on another boarding school and my long haired period started half a year in and experiments with haschish started. So the transition was really parallel with the way the Beatles developed. Along came other groups like Kinks, Move, Doors. Even if I got a spot on my criminal records I managed to get through high school in good form(look picture from 1969). I continued to follow the different Beatles solo careers together with my new group to follow Status Quo. Sorry for the long story but I think a few others have tried similar like me.

[Leif Mortensen]

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Thanks -nice welcome in the MLT club

[Leif Mortensen]

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Sure can and already have. Now waiting for the last two albums to arrive in Denmark. They play some really nice versions of the old hits – so teen again – on the inside – well that is Leif

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Thank you for the welcome. You’re nailing right on the point – they put their own twist to the Beatles songs – and others of course. Specially impressed by Lola one of my favorite Kinks numbers. Actually I think they should make a lot more Kinks covers – they had meaningful texts with a twist. I’ve presented MonaLisa to some hardcore Beatles fans and they admit that they are doing well but they will never be Beatles – and I say of course not but they present their music in a modern way no other Beatles cover bands are doing – their own way. Guess that’s why we love them )

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Nice to feel welcomed by you. Seems quite a lot of you have stumbled over The MonaLisa Twins – nice stumble by the way. Proves again that if you’re searching you might find something but if you’re not searching nothing happens. Second thing one has to do is to make a choice – like e.g. MonLisa when they chose the music. Each time you make a choice you learn something – and that’s not bad I think. I’m a teacher who learned a lot talking to people while being a cab driver in Copenhagen while I studied – most important to LISTEN. 😉

[Leif Mortensen]

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Thanks for the welcome – seems a nice place to share some memories 😉

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Yeah nice to think back on the old times and being remembered by so lovely musicians as MonaLisa Twins. I had a lot of LPs until around 2005 where I sold most of my collection (ca. 3000). I converted most of it to MP3 but still have some rare ones. The only ones I feel a bit sorry about selling were my Beatles LPs. Well MP3 is good enough to me BUT my Beatles records I had printed myself in Xmas time 1971 where I had a job at the NMI factory in Denmark – special isn’t it. But mostly I’ve found out that the attached image – a special Danish issue of Beatles Hottest hits which is quite rare – well that’s Leif. 😉

[Leif Mortensen]

Thanks – worth the wait- only took a month to get the portrait from England to Denmark – well so is Brexit.

[Leif Mortensen]

Thanks. Yeah quite funny to have something on a wall about your favorite stars. Last time I did that was in the 60ties and there the posters/pictures were of The Beatles and The Kinks 😉

[Leif Mortensen]

Thanks for the nice words Jürgen

[Leif Mortensen]

Thank you Jacki

[Leif Mortensen]

Always find a place for something in connection to our favorite twins. 🙂 Here you see me with the twins when I got the picture yesterday