Anyone of a certain age — or anyone who’s heard of MTV, period — is familiar with the iconic 1984 synthpop hit “Take on Me” by Norwegian band A-ha. More than three decades later, the song (and its ...
Norwegian New Wave outfit A-ha crossed over in America with “Take on Me,” a 1985 hit single propelled by an unshakeable synth riff, a striving, sugar-coated chorus, singer Morten Harket’s angelic ...
Weezer recruited the Roots and Jimmy Fallon for a “classroom instruments” version of A-ha’s “Take on Me” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The group went suitably retro for the occasion, with Fallon and ...