Take On Me

1 Release Date: October 19, 1984 2 Release Date: April 5, 1985 3 Release Date: September 16, 1985

Take On Me (English for "Take it with me " ) is a song by Norwegian pop rock band a-ha, which is from their first album Hunting High and Low of 1985. It was the debut single of the band and is available on album -called in the first place.

Was first released the title already in the autumn of 1984, but he managed it until the summer of 1985 with the third attempt to square 1 all over Europe were sold from the first publication only about 300 pieces. This makes the single today a sought-after collector's item.

The music video for this song was mid-1985, first broadcast on a local station in Boston and then on MTV in heavy rotation, which made the world aware of the song. The innovative video at this time was a mixture of rotoscoping and live action (ie, comic and real- world). It won six awards at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards and was nominated for two more.

A long version of the title appeared only in Japan on a 45 RPM Club E. P. Was covered the song for example, by Reel Big Fish (1999), A1 ( 2000) and Jeffster (2012 ).

Music Video

The video was shot and directed by Steve Barron. It shows a young blonde woman (played by Bunty Bailey ), sitting in a cafe in London and a comic book about motorcycle race reads. The winner of this race, played by Morten Harket, the lead singer of the band, the girl from the book winks out. He then hands her his black-and- white cartoon hand through the comic book and pulls the girl in his animated world. Through a film effect (alternating real movie and comic book world) they see each other through a comic frame that also shows the band members.

The waitress thinks at this moment, as she wants to cash in the bill that the woman has gone without paying. Angrily she crumpled up the book and throws it in the trash. Shortly thereafter, two of the rivals of the motorcyclist coming back. You want revenge and one of them destroys the comic frames with a wrench. Harket suggests one of the thugs and contracts with the girl in a maze back, which is formed by crumpled paper. Harket opens a hole so that he can escape with the girl when he sees the two thugs. The entire cafeteria looks over the counter the girl with ink inked lie next to the trash. The girl grabs scared the crumpled comic book and runs out of the cafeteria in her room, where she tries to smooth out the wrinkles.

One of the parts shows Harket unconscious on the floor and she starts to cry. When he regains consciousness, he begins to strike the corners of the comic frame. Suddenly he appears in the girl's room and throws himself into the door frame back and forth while the video between reality and comic book switches back and forth. Eventually he is real and the two eventually fall in his arms. Finally, the comic book is seen bearing the title of a-ha.

At the beginning of the follow- The Sun Always Shines videos on TV the story is briefly resumed and completed before the main part of the video begins.

Charts

On September 16, 1985, the single was also released in Europe. The title reached in 36 countries # 1 on the charts and with more than 8 million units sold, one of the world's best selling singles of all time. She was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and in England climbed to number 2 as well as in a-ha's native Norway to square 1

Awards

At the MTV Video Music Awards on September 5, 1986, the video won six awards.

2006 was the song at number 24 of the "Greatest Songs of the 1980s " of VH1.

  • UK: Gold ( 500,000 )
  • U.S.: Platinum ( 1,500,000 )
  • Germany: Gold ( 500,000 )
  • France: Gold ( 500,000 )
  • Spain: Platinum (100,000)
  • Norway: 4x platinum ( 200,000 )
  • Italy: Gold ( 500,000 )

The title is the second of the best selling singles in 1985.

Others

  • Musicians or music students, the specialist ear training intervals want with the help of song beginnings can remember, take Take On Me as an example of the great Septim up.
  • Since it is the verb take on a separate Partikelverb: is (English " separable phrasal verb " ), it can both take on me, and take me on as used in the chorus, hot.

Cover versions

The single Feel This Moment by Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera uses parts of the melody of the song.

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