Forty years ago, three Norwegian boys burst onto the pop landscape with the interminably ubiquitous hit single Take On Me. Keen to please, these exotic pop creatures with healthy translucent skin and chiselled good looks were only too happy to model for Jackie and Look-In magazines in an array of fetching Scandi knitwear and white muscle vests. They were Blu-Tacked fixtures on teenagers’ walls, to the consternation of their parents.
While the trio largely remained in the domain of teenyboppers, at the core of A-ha was something darker and more musically profound, as evidenced on their debut album Hunting High and Low from 1985.
