Pop demi-gods A-ha was a Norwegion pop band formed in Oslo in 1982 by the trio of Morten harket, Magne Furuholman and Pal Waaktaar. The peculiar name was actually a song written by Waaktaar and chosen as it was a Norwegian word that could be pronounced in English. Their ground breaking debut album “Hunting High and Low” featured two international number #1 singles “Take On Me” and the danceable “The Sun Always Shines on TV” which deservedly earned them a Grammy Award nomination as Best New Artist. Their brand then exploded and the album became one of the best selling albums of 1986 and spent most of October and November in the top 20 of Billboard’s Top 200 album chart.
With their phenomenal “Take On Me” single Warner Brothers in the United States invested a significant amount of money on the revolutionary video which purged their success in the Billboard Top 100.
Allmusic journalist Tim DiGravina described this pop gem as being “a new wave classic laced with rushing keyboards, made emotionally resonant thanks to Morton Harket’s touching vocal delicacy.”
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