A-AH - HUNTING HIGH AND LOW

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HUNTING HIGH AND LOW

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INTEGRANTES: MORTEN HARKET, MAGNE FURUHOLMEN, PAUL WAAKTAAR-SAVOY
SONGWRITER: PAUL WAAKTAAR-SAVOY
COUNTRY: NORWAY
ALBUM: HUNTING HIGH AND LOW
LABEL: RHINO/WARNER BROS.
GENRE: SYNTH-POP
YEAR: 1985
 
    A-ha(usually stylised as a-ha; Norwegian pronunciation: [ɑˈhɑː]) is a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. Founded by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (guitars), Magne Furuholmen(keyboards and guitars), and Morten Harket(vocals), the band rose to fame during the mid-1980s.
            A-ha achieved their biggest success with their debut álbum Hunting High and Low in 1985. The album peaked at number one in their native country Norway, number 2 in the UK, and number 15 on the US Billboard album chart; yielded two international number-one singles: "Take On Me" and "The Sun Always Shines on T.V."; and earned the band a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Artist. In the UK, Hunting High and Low continued its chart success into the following year, becoming one of the best-selling albums of 1986. The band released studio albums in 1986, 1988, and 1990, with single hits including "Hunting High and Low", "The Living Daylights", "Stay on These Roads", and "Crying in the Rain". In 1994, after their fifth studio album, Memorial Beach(1993), failed to achieve the commercial success of their previous albums, the band went on hiatus.
          Following a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 1998, A-ha recorded their sixth album, 2000's Minor Earth Major Sky, which was another number-one album in Norway and Germany. This album was followed by Lifelines (2002); Analogue (2005), which was certified Silver in the UK; and Foot of the Mountain(2009), which was certified Silver in the UK and reached the top five in many European countries.
            On 15 October 2009, the band announced they would split after the 2010 worldwide Ending on a High Note Tour. Thousands of fans from at least 40 countries on six continents congregated to see A-ha for the last leg of the tour.
                On 4 December 2014, A-ha officially announced its participation at Rock in Rio 2015, which celebrated 30 years for both the band and the event. In 2015, it was announced that A-ha would reunite; their tenth studio album, Cast in Steel, was released on 4 September 2015, and the band toured in support of the album.
        The band has released ten studio albums, several compilations and four live albums. In less than a year, during 2010, the band earned an estimated 500 million Norwegian kroner from concert tickets, merchandise and the release of a greatest hits album, making them one of the 40–50 highest-grossing bands in the world. The band were listed in the Guinness World Records book for having the biggest-paying rock concert attendance; they drew an audience of 198,000 at Maracanã Stadium during the Rock in Rio festival. Their exact sales figures are somewhat controversial; according to their label, Rhino Entertainment, they have sold 55 million records, but other sources assert that they have sold more than 100 million units, albums and singles combined.

Here I am
And within the reach of my hands
She's sound asleep and she's sweeter now
Than the wildest dream could have seen her
And I watch her slipping away
But I know
I'll be hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lengths
I'll go to hunting high and low
High
There's no end to lengths I'll go
To find her again
Upon this my dreams are depending
Through the dark
I sense the pounding of her heart next to mine
She's the sweetest love I could find
So I guess
I'll be hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lengths
I'll go to high and low
High
Do you know what it means to love you?
I'm hunting high and low
And now she's telling me she's got to go away
I'll always be hunting high and low
Only for you (and now she's telling me)
Watch me tearing myself to pieces
Hunting high and low
High
There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Oh, for you, I'll be hunting high and low

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