a-ha ist eine norwegische Popgruppe, die seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr zehn Studioalben veröffentlicht und mehr als Millionen Tonträger verkauft hat. Die Band besteht aus Morten Harket (Gesang), Pål Waaktaar-Savoy (Gitarre) und Magne Furuholmen (Keyboard).
Zu ihren größten Hits zählen Take On Me (), The Sun Always Shines on T.V., The Living Daylights, Stay on these Roads, Crying in the Rain, Summer Moved On und Foot of the Mountain.
Bandgeschichte
Name
Der Name „a-ha“ bezieht sich auf einen frühen Liedentwurf der Band. Morten Harket fand den Titel in einem von Paul Waaktaars Notizbüchern und schlug ihn als Bandnamen vor. Nachdem die Bandmitglieder einige Wörterbücher überprüft hatten, fanden sie heraus, dass „a-ha“ ein internationaler Ausdruck ist, der Erkenntnis mit positiver Wertung ausdrückt. Die Band fand den Namen kurz, einfach auszusprechen und ungewöhnlich und wählte ihn daher für sich.
– Gründung und erste Erfolge
Die Band wurde im Herbst von Pål Waaktaar-Savoy (Gitarrist und Songwriter), Magne Furuholmen (Keyboarder, Gitarrist, S
The Norwegian group a-ha reached cult status in the s with their hit song “Take On Me.” But how much do you really know about the band behind the bop?
There is no doubt that the Norwegian synth-pop superstars left a mark on the music world. So, how did three young men from Oslo achieve such global success?
Read for the story of a-ha – local adolescent boyband turned record-breaking global phenomenon.
Humble beginnings
The story of a-ha begins at an Oslo primary school in the 70s, when Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (then named Pål Waaktaar Gamst) and Magne Furuholmen got to know each other through their shared love of music. They eventually went on to make their own band, going under names such as Spider Empire and Thala & The Layas Blues Bland, according to SNL.
A few years later, they created a group called Bridges with Viggo Bondiand Øystein Jevanord. The band released one album in called Fakkeltog, but parted ways the following year. Only editions of the album were produced, and it’s a sought-after collectible today.
Although Bridges’ success was limited, their LP Fakkeltog included a song called “The Juicy Fruit Song,” which had the same central synth riff as
a-ha is a Norwegian new wave/synth-pop band. The trio, composed of lead vocalist Morten Harket, guitarist Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and keyboardist Magne Furuholmen, formed in and left Oslo, Norway for London in order to make a career in the music business.
The origin of the name a-ha comes from the lyric of an early song. After checking dictionaries in several languages, they found out that 'a-ha' was an international way of expressing recognition, with positive connotations. It was short, a-ha was easy to say and somewhat unusual.
"Take on Me" was the first song Morten Harket heard Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy created. At that time the song was called "Lesson One." After multiple re-recordings and two failed releases, "Take on Me" became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in Although their first release of the song in was not a major success, it was remixed by producer Alan Tarney a year later, and sold million copies worldwide in one week. Eventually the single "Take on Me" is estimated to have sold million copies worldwide; it peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot and number two in the UK Singles Chart. Sales were aided in the U.S. by a music video on MT
a-ha | Biografie
Im Land der Mitternachtssonne ticken die Uhren anders. Das trifft in besonderem Maße auf die Tage der Sommersonnenwende zu, wenn es kaum noch dunkel wird – und Norwegen, und mit dem Land auch die winzige Insel Giske, des Nachts in ein gespenstisches Zwielicht getaucht ist.
Denn ebenda, in Giske, spielten a-ha zur Sommersonnenwende im Juni die ersten zwei Akustikkonzerte ihrer Karriere – in unmittelbarer Nähe der an der Küste zum Nordatlantik gelegenen Stadt Ålesund, die heute vor allem als Halt für Kreuzfahrtschiffe auf der Hurtigruten bekannt ist und während der kurzer Sommersaison Tag für Tag unter dem beständigen Ansturm der Kreuzfahrt-Tagestouristen ächzt. Indes: Die Zuschauer, die zu den beiden a-ha-Konzerten von überall her mit dem Flugzeug – mit einem Zwischenhalt in Oslo – anreisten und zu allem Überfluss von Ålesund noch zwei schier endlose, beängstigend tiefe Unterwassertunnel durchfahren mussten, bevor sie schließlich die wunderschöne und, nun ja, entlegene Insel Giske erreichten, stellten sich allesamt eine Frage: Weshalb nur hatten a-ha von allen möglichen Orten gerade diesen für ihre lang erwarteten, ersten MTV Unplugged Konzerte gewäh
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