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May 2022

  • a-ha The Movie Photo Press publicity film image John Ratcliff

    a-ha: The Movie review – Norway’s 80s pop pinups in dour, exacting details

  • a-ha The Movie Photo Press publicity film image Magne Furuholmen

    a-ha: The Movie review – Take on Me hitmakers relive the highs and the lows

February 2022

  • Norwegian pop group A-ha with their electric Fiat Panda

    Identify A-ha moments to trigger fast climate action, say UK scientists

    Using ‘tipping points’ can unlock the changes needed on energy, food and plastics, analysis shows

February 2020

  • A-ha perform at the Day on the Green concert at Rochford Winery, Yarra Valley

    Day on the Green review: a-ha return with a melancholy take on their 80s hits

    The Norwegian band are serious, not overplaying for the fun of the revved-up crowd, unlike fellow 80s stars Pseudo Echo and Rick Astley

November 2018

  • Joyful … George Hicks, Sophie Gunn and Eleanor Isherwood with the choir in Take On Me at the Rossmore Leisure Centre in Poole.

    Drama at the deep end: leisure-centre play staged in pools and gyms

    Dante or Die’s 80s-set touring show Take On Me celebrates community fitness centres and gives roles to locals

April 2017

  • Ed Miliband performs a-ha’s hit Take on Me on The Last Leg

    Ed Miliband performs a-ha’s hit Take on Me on The Last Leg skit – video

    Former Labour leader Ed Miliband lip-synchs to Take on Me by a-ha in a skit aired on Channel 4’s comedy chatshow The Last Leg on Friday evening

March 2017

  • Composite of music video clips: Michael Jackson - Black or White, A-Ha - Take On Me, The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl and Rihanna - Sledgehammer

    Gimme Gimme Gimmicks: the innovations that changed music videos

    Shaking Chains have created an AI-powered video that changes with every play, but how does their attempt rank in the pantheon of music video gimmickry?

May 2016

  • A-Ha Perform At Manchester Arena

    30 minutes with …
    A-ha's Morten Harket: 'I'm not an entertainer, I'm an engager'

    The A-ha frontman talks longevity, Kierkegaard, Uriah Heep, why John Barry rubbed A-ha up the wrong way, and an interesting metaphor about large breasts

March 2016

  • Morten Harket of a-ha at Manchester Arena on March 25.

    A-ha review – joyful comeback puts sincerity over showbiz

    Rejuvenated pop pin-up Morten Harket threatens to trigger a mass fainting as he delights in his reunited band

October 2015

  • row of box sets for xmas issue omm december 2003

    Peak box set: how Dylan inspired barrel-scraping of the most cynical kind

    Completists might rejoice at the thought of Velvet Underground’s finest works receiving six-disc autopsies, but do T’Pau really deserve the same treatment?

September 2015

  • Alan Tarney

    Cult heroes
    Cult heroes: Alan Tarney, the greatest British pop producer you've never heard of

  • A-ha

    How we made
    A-ha: how we made Take on Me

November 2013

  • A-ha pop group

    Ed Miliband's pop choices reveal a man of no musical taste

    Pop critic Kitty Empire applauds the Labour leader for making his own choices … even if they are terribly naff

September 2013

  • Ad break
    Ad break: VW's A-ha spoof, Adobe mocks digital marketers

    Watch a Volkswagen advert cleverly updating the classic Take on Me promo in our review of new work from around the world

July 2010

  • A-ha, July 2009

    A-ha invest millions in Norwegian talent contest

    Synth-pop veterans offering prizewinners 1m kroner and an opening slot on their farewell tour

January 2010

  • Satyricon play Oya rock festival, Oslo

    Oslo: Norway's music and festival paradise

    Oslo is heaving with quirky venues, record shops and festivals

November 2009

  • Apparatjik

    Coldplay and A-ha side project announce debut album

    If you were expecting Apparatjik to sound like Viva La Vida meets Take On Me, then you are going to be sorely disappointed

October 2009

  • A-ha, July 2009

    A-ha to split after 25 years

    The Norwegian pop trio are to go their separate ways, taking their fancy haircuts and perfect cheekbones into politics

August 2009

  • A-ha, July 2009

    The G2 interview
    A-ha: 'We were very reluctant pop stars'

    They were pin-up boys for millions of girls in the 80s, but these days A-ha are more likely to be glumly discussing philosophy than chasing stardom, finds Decca Aitkenhead

July 2009

  • a-ha: Foot of the Mountain

    The core of the album consists of the same grown-up wistfulness that's powered Take That's comeback, says Caroline Sullivan

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