HUNTING HIGH AND LOW
A-AH
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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