Some strong contenders here. Voting for ELO, but the ones from Michael Jackson, Pink Floyd, The Kids and even Johnny Logan are great too.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 10 May 2009 02:42 (seventeen years ago)
This is a public service translation of subtitles in Norwegian. Info in [square brackets] is cultural background or editorial comment.
0:15. The guy with the Eastern Bloc blonde hair is Dag Ingebrigtsen, father of [1995 World Champion] ski jumper Tommy Ingebrigtsen.
0:22. The Kids were formed in 1979 by Dag Ingebrigtsen and Torstein Flakne. Their success story lasted about a year plus.
0:29. The band got extremely popular, and there was virtual Beatlemania in rural Norway when they visited.
0:37. Drummer Ragnar Vigdal is now an undertaker in Trondheim. Pianist Arild Sandstad sells lamps and classy furniture[?].
0:45. Bassist Svein Morten Lunde sadly died, only 37 years old. Flakne and Ingebrigtsen are still working in music.
0:52. Tonight, Dag Ingebrigtsen is playing a concert in Stange. Tomorrow night, Lillehammer gets a visit from the singer of The Kids.
0:59. Wanted video of the 80s: Text RETRO (your wish) to number 1984 (NOK 5 per SMS)
1:07. Norway's contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest was "Samiid Ædnan", with Sverre Kjeldsberg and Mattis Hætta. They finish fourth from the bottom...
1:16. The handsome teacher is driving instructor Torkild Pedersen. He was the only man in Trondheim with a butch body and shoulder-length hair [a salient point in the song's lyrics].
1:22. The girl's name is Anne Isdahl, and she was 15 when the video was recorded. Later, she became a photomodel and lived in the USA for nearly 20 years.
[The rest of the subtitles are just general cultural & historic observations on the time when this thing was made.]
On the other hand, you might not want to know.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 14 May 2009 23:48 (seventeen years ago)
