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Reel Big Fish released a video clip for "Take On Me", directed by Jeff Moore, [108] and features the band playing the song while walking down an aisle in the stadium, and playing a game of BASEketball interlaced with clips from the film. An alternative video for the song's international release that contained only the stadium aisle footage was ...
She became known as the girl in the music videos of a-ha's singles "Take On Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." made in 1985. She is the former girlfriend of the band's lead vocalist, Morten Harket, whom she met while working on the videos. She has since appeared in several films, with her most recent role in 2008 as a Gypsy Momma in ...
The "Take On Me" video was nominated for eight 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, and at the third annual ceremony 5 September 1986, the video won six awards, including Best New Artist and Viewer's Choice. [7] "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." was nominated for an additional three awards, winning two, for a total of eight wins.
The music video for "Take On Me" is considered to be one of the most distinctive music videos from the 1980s. On 17 February 2020, the video became the fifth video from the 1980s and 1990s to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, following " November Rain " and " Sweet Child o' Mine " by Guns N' Roses , " Smells Like Teen Spirit " by Nirvana and ...
The video opens with a short sequence which forms an epilogue to the video for "Take On Me", the band's previous single, continuing with the use of rotoscoped animation. The young lovers (played by Morten Harket and Bunty Bailey), having survived the ordeal of the story in the first video, now face one another in the woods at night. Suddenly ...
The music video was directed by Candice Reckinger and Michael Patterson. The video concept was designed by the same producers who brought "Take On Me" into the video mainstream. The black-and-white footage and animation in the "Train of Thought" video actually predated the "Take On Me" single, and was the inspiration for the animation in the ...
"Take On Me" (1985) music video; 1986 Morten Harket – vocals; Paul Waaktaar – guitar, backing vocals; Magne Furuholmen – keyboards, bass programming, backing vocals; Additional personnel Gina Schock – drums; US TV appearances on American Bandstand, Soul Train and Solid Gold. [9] 1986 – 1987 Morten Harket – vocals
The Definitive Singles Collection 1984–2004 is a greatest hits album by Norwegian band A-ha, released on 11 April 2005.. Despite the title, the album contains tracks from 1985 to 2004, though the original version of "Take On Me" was released in 1984.