
Take On Me
Throwback Thursday, 1985: released three times in about a year before it worked. The song never changed — the delivery did, at roughly 3,000 hand-drawn frames.
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SONG.REVIEWSNorwegian trio of Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen, and Pal Waaktaar-Savoy, formed in Oslo in 1982 and broken internationally from London with 1985's Hunting High and Low. One of the few acts of the MTV synth-pop wave to convert a single defining video into a career that outlasted the format by decades.

Throwback Thursday, 1985: released three times in about a year before it worked. The song never changed — the delivery did, at roughly 3,000 hand-drawn frames.
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