Thirty years on. Aha and Take on me.

[Albumen]

That kind of thing did happen.

Wasn't 'Vienna' by Ultravox kept off the number one slot by 'Shaddup your face' by Joe Dolce?

The worst was Fairytale of New York being kept off Christmas No.1 by The ****ing Pet Shop Boys 'You were always on my mind' bland cover.

 

[albion534]

i'm 25, and love this song and music video

CLASSIC!

 

[tinycowboy]

Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love.

I knew it. That song was like a morning spent in Bejam in the early 1980s, even though it introduced a potentially interesting tension between subject matter (love) and instrumentation (funeral dirge). The follow-up "Ring of Ice" was EVEN worse - like painting white paint over white paint in a very large room. Man, I feel tired and dismayed.

 

[Badger]

Strangely enough this has just come on the radio. Actually it's probably not that strange given that I'm listening to Absolute 80s.

Family Guy also did a decent spoof of this video, with Chris Griffin playing the part of Morten Harket ( )

That is one of my favourite completely random Family Guy moments.

"Where have you been Chris?"
"I don't know!"

 

[Los Che]

It is interesting that original song was not that popular at all,quite the opposite. Then they made new version with new video which became hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liq-seNVvrM

 

[Braders]

Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love.

Number one the day I was born

 

[Lush]

Still my favourite band

 

[Pavilionaire]

I think that was the alternative take - 'W@nk on me'

Savile and his jingle-jangle jewellery was apparently the inspiration for their follow-up hit "The Cvnt Always Shines On TV"...

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I think I can speak for everyone* when I say that the Reel Big Fish cover of this is the superior version.

*'everyone' being me.

 

[nicko31]

64 million hits on the tube, not bad. There were some decent sounds in the 80's that's for sure...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There were some decent sounds in the 80's that's for sure...

But far less than in any other decade since pop began. IMHO, like.

 

[SeagullinExile]

The girl in the original video was Morten Harket's girlfriend at the time.

I don't think you imagined it though as I believe Jim fixed it for someone to be in a "remake" of the video, at least I can remember something like that from a Jim'll Fix It (along with some kid who sent off an entire Arsenal team as he was upset they had knocked Oxford out of the League Cup).

Phew!

 

[SeagullinExile]

I knew it. That song was like a morning spent in Bejam in the early 1980s, even though it introduced a potentially interesting tension between subject matter (love) and instrumentation (funeral dirge). The follow-up "Ring of Ice" was EVEN worse - like painting white paint over white paint in a very large room. Man, I feel tired and dismayed.

Bejam! Now that's a blast from the past....

We used to nick ice-pops from there in Eastbourne before the Saturday Cinema Club at the Curzon!

 

[melias shoes]

Although take on me was recorded in 1984 it didn't actually chart until late 1985 in the UK.

 

[tinycowboy]

Bejam! Now that's a blast from the past....

We used to nick ice-pops from there in Eastbourne before the Saturday Cinema Club at the Curzon!

Ice pops used to be 2p - 1.5p sometimes. I couldn't stand those fat ice pops - too much ice, not enough flavour.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

best video for a song EVER !!!!

 

[Garage_Doors]

Wasn't this on Jim 'll fix it? I'm sure a girl in the story board was in it because of ol' Uncle Jim!

Or did I imagine it??

It's Sir Jim to you.