Electronic · Indie · Pop · Rock
a-ha Take On Me (Version 1)Watch at the source
Steve Barron's award-winning video for 'Take On Me' blends live action with pencil-sketch animation, following a woman pulled into a comic book world — a pioneering use of rotoscoping that became one of the most iconic and technically innovative clips of the 1980s.
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At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Take On Me" won six awards—Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects, and Viewer's Choice—and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year. "Take On Me" was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986.
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The a-ha channel is the official YouTube home of the Norwegian Pop trio a-ha, who achieved global stardom in 1985 when their debut single, “Take On Me” from the album ‘Hunting High And Low’ topped the charts in 36 different countries on its way to becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time, and the 5th most streamed song of the 20th century. a-ha struck chart gold again with “The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” and “Cry Wolf,” and recorded the theme to the 1987 James Bond film “The Living Daylights”. The a-ha YouTube channel is proud to host the music videos from these hits alongside live performance videos, lyric videos, and the solo work of band members Morten Harket (lead vocals), Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (Guitar), and Magne Furuholmen (Keyboards).
a-ha’s music video for “Take On Me (Version 1)”, released 1985. Directed by Steve Barron. 4:04 in HD, 2,497,159,511 plays and 13,051,866 likes on YouTube. Filed under Electronic, Indie, Pop and Rock. AltSounds Curated.
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