Thirty years ago, a 16-year-old Ohio boy saw a video on MTV that changed his life. The song was Take On Me by the Norwegian trio a-ha. Even if you’re a millennial, you’ve heard the synth-pop song with ...

Released in the mid-80s, the Norwegian band’s song found great success both on the charts and with awards. It spent 27 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 1. The song also nabbed ...

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Thirty years ago, a 16-year-old Ohio boy saw a video on MTV that changed his life. The song was “Take On Me” by the Norwegian trio a-ha. Even if you’re a millennial, you’ve heard the synth-pop song ...

Discover the fascinating journey of A-ha and their iconic hit 'Take On Me', exploring the band's origins, the song's creation, and its lasting impact on pop culture.

Anyone of a certain age — or anyone who’s heard of MTV, period — is familiar with the iconic 1984 synthpop hit “Take on Me” by Norwegian band A-ha. More than three decades later, the song (and its ...

The first time a-ha singer Morten Harket heard the now-famous synthesizer hook in “Take on Me,” a bell rang in his head. He knew the fleet, perky melody would launch him into a noteworthy music career ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weezer has released a super meta video for their cover of a-ha’s “Take On Me” and it stars Calpurnia. Calpurnia, fronted by Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, takes it back to the ‘80s with this ...

On Wednesday, A-ha's "Take On Me" became the second music video from the '80s to pass one billion views on YouTube, after Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O'Mine." In a tweet, the band thanked their fans ...