Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Wednesday, A-ha's "Take On Me" became the second music video from the '80s to pass one billion views on YouTube, after ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Weezer have teamed with Calpurnia – the indie rock band led by Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard – for a nostalgic new video for their cover of a-ha‘s “Take On Me.” The track appears on Weezer’s new self ...
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 ...