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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The music video for a-ha's 1985 hit "Take on Me" is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, and 40 years after it hit ...

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 ...

The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1985. By Rania Aniftos A-ha’s chart-topping hit, “Take on Me” reached two billion YouTube views this week, marking the first song released in that decade ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Last of Us stirred viewers with its low-key take on the soaring 1980s synth-pop hit. But the song itself very nearly never took off Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a ...

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.