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73听|听Top 100 'Hunting High And Low' A-Ha
![Listen](/staticarchive/bbc3a12aa100dc6bee4c858e86a390b3a72acd0e.gif) A-Ha burst onto the teenage pin-up pop scene in 1985 with their worldwide hit Take On Me, partly thanks to a ground-breaking video that was lapped up by the MTV generation. Norway's answer to Duran Duran initally produced synth-pop that critics dismissed |
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Pal Waaktaar-Gamst |
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Genre |
Pop |
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Album |
Hunting High And Low |
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Year of release |
1986 |
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UK Chart Position |
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as another teeny pop sensation. However, it wasn't long before A-Ha proved to have a more long-lasting appeal by releasing mature ballads such as Hunting High And Low.![](/staticarchive/317496a096d6c86486a71d4521994bcd171a6bb3.gif)
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![](/staticarchive/317496a096d6c86486a71d4521994bcd171a6bb3.gif) Morten Harket from A-ha talks about being a teen idol.
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Other versions![A-Ha](/staticarchive/f01372805b414ffcbf50066078450719fe9b174f.jpg) |
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听A-Ha released a live version of their classic song on their Lifelines single in 2002
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Doves Special guests on Dermot's show this week
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