The first take of the song was actually inspired by the Doors. And I think a lot of the strength of a-ha comes from absorbing things like that and adding our own Scandinavian flavor to it. After signing to Warner Bros. The group fought hard for another crack in the studio, and recruited producer Alan Tarney to rerecord the song. Watch the original video here. It also marked the last time a-ha ever charted a Top 20 single in the U. While a-ha vanished from the American pop landscape, in Europe the group scored a long run of critical and commercial success including their newest — and final — album Foot of the Mountain , which debuted at Number Five in the U. We sold out these concert halls faster than we expected to. Their career will wrap for good with three concerts in Oslo, Norway.

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He knew the fleet, perky melody would launch him into a noteworthy music career. On YouTube, the clip is close to surpassing 1 billion views. The singer, who turned 60 this month, was ambitious, dreamy but unfocused until late , when, at his former high school in Oslo, he heard Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy playing in a Doors-influenced group called Bridges. They were incredible, he thought, but they were lacking one thing: him.
The original version was produced by Tony Mansfield and remixed by John Ratcliff. A new version was released in and produced by Alan Tarney for the group's debut studio album Hunting High and Low The song combines synthpop with a varied instrumentation that includes acoustic guitars , keyboards, and drums. It is considered to be the band's signature song. The video features the band in a live-action pencil-sketch sequence. One of the tracks rehearsed around this time was called "Miss Eerie", which had an original title of "Panorama". It included elements of what would later become "Take On Me", including the central synth riff, which Magne Furuholmen created when he was 15 years old. Soon after, Bridges disbanded. Waaktaar and Furuholmen relocated to London to try their hand in the music industry there, but returned to Norway after six months of disappointment.
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