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In 2020, former Warner Brothers UK and Reprise executive Andrew Wickham appeared in A-ha's official anniversary documentary A-ha: The Making of Take On Me, to explain how the song's success was due to several parties realising the band's true value. He detailed how the song finally became the worldwide smash hit still widely recognised today.
In June 2009, she was one of the first people to take advantage of the UK government car scrappage scheme and was invited to breakfast with the prime minister at the time, Gordon Brown. [ 2 ] In September 2012, Bailey appeared as the mystery guest on Channel 4 's Big Fat Quiz of the '80s , with her appearance in the a-ha videos being the ...
An early version of "Take On Me" was the first song that Harket had heard Furuholmen and Waaktaar play in Asker. At that time, the song was called "Miss Eerie" and the two men were still known as Bridges. Harket said it sounded more like a "Juicy Fruit song" (meaning a gum advertisement). A-ha's first recorded version was called "Lesson One".
Furuholmen has been the keyboardist with A-ha since their formation in 1982, though he also plays guitar. He composed the synth-riff of "Take On Me", when he was only 15 years old. [13] In an interview from 2014, he revealed it was thanks to Morten Harket that they used the "Take On Me" riff saying he would quit the band if they didn't. [13 ...
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Morten Harket (Norwegian pronunciation: [mʊ̂ʈːn̩ ˈhɑ̀ɾkət]; born 14 September 1959) [1] is a Norwegian singer who is the lead vocalist of the synth-pop band A-ha. A-ha has released 11 studio albums as of 2024, and topped the charts internationally after their breakthrough hit "Take On Me" in 1985. [2] Harket has also released six solo ...
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The music "really helped tell the narrative" as Hough and Erbert, 29, performed for the first time since her brain surgery. Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert’s Relationship Timeline: Dance Partners ...