The Missing Ending of “The Sign”: Ace of Base, Cheiron, and the Ending I Wrote - Softcover

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Previously published as The Missing Ending of “The Sign”: Ace of Base, Jonas Berggren, and the Credit That Was Erased by M. Maurice Hawkesworth.

In a Cheiron studio in Stockholm in 1993, “The Sign” needed an ending. I wrote it, sang it, and heard it become part of the record. The song reached the world. My name did not appear among its writers.

To explain how that happened, I have to take you inside Mega Records.

I carried records into offices where the people paid to recognise hits turned them down. I worked with Leila K, commissioned videos, and helped get Ace of Base heard. A television appearance could leave me buying stockings for the band. A pinball game with Denniz Pop could have an actual royalty point riding on it.

We were busy making things happen. Somewhere in that rush, a conversation about the ending of a song never became a written agreement.

This memoir follows the work, friendships and absurdities behind the records, from a five-string guitar in a Copenhagen hotel lobby to the studio at Cheiron and the machinery of international success. It returns to the people who were there, the papers that survived, and the question I have carried for more than thirty years.

I remember the pleasure of those days. I remember the ending I wrote. Here is my account of how both became part of my life.

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