Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PA PHOTO 24/4/1987:TOP NORWEGIAN POP GROUP A-HA, WHO CO-WROTE AND SING THE THEME SONG FOR THE LATEST JAMES BOND MOVIE 'THE LIVING ...

Spend enough time surfing through YouTube’s vast catalog of vintage music videos and you’ll eventually come across “Take on Me” by Norwegian trio a-ha. The surreal, sketch-pad animation of the 1985 ...

In 1985, two groundbreaking works of animation could be viewed, sometimes in the same hour, on MTV. One was “Take On Me,” the A-ha video in which a woman (actress Bunty Bailey) gets yanked out of a ...

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A-ha has unveiled a 4k restoration of their revolutionary rotoscoped video for their Eighties smash “Take on Me.” A-ha famously released two versions of “Take on Me” and two videos for the song. The ...

A-ha detail the evolution of their Eighties smash “Take On Me” in this clip from A-ha: The Movie, a documentary about the Norwegian New Wave band’s formation, success and disintegration set to ...

Norwegian synthpop trio A-ha’s “Take On Me” has joined YouTube‘s billion-views club. The iconic video from A-ha, which combines live action with pencil-sketch animation, is only the second song from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norway is a land of dramatic fjords, the midnight sun and the world's finest goat cheese. It has never been known for its music.

Norway is a land of dramatic fjords, the midnight sun and the world’s finest goat cheese. It has never been known for its music. But 40 years ago, it produced a singular global pop hit whose grip on ...