Waits co-wrote the underrated gem about pondering death with his wife, songwriter Kathleen Brennan.

Norway is a land of dramatic fjords, the midnight sun and the world’s finest goat cheese. It has never been known for its music. But 40 years ago, it produced a singular global pop hit whose grip on ...

A-ha’s “Take On Me” is as good as one-hit wonders come. Released in the mid-80s, the Norwegian band’s song found great success both on the charts and with awards. It spent 27 weeks on the Billboard ...

At their peak, nobody could deliver an earworm pop song with the consistency of ABBA. You could make an argument that their peak came in the neighborhood of 1977, the year they uncorked the ...

Morten Harket, the singer of the Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha who helped define the 1980s MTV sound with its gorgeously sung global hit “Take On Me,” revealed Wednesday that he has Parkinson’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norway is a land of dramatic fjords, the midnight sun and the world's finest goat cheese. It has never been known for its music.