Terry Slater insisted the song had more life in it. At his urging, a-ha re-recorded it, this time with producer Alan Tarney, who gave it more weight, more energy, and more orchestral force. Tarney generated the basic rhythm on a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer, while there is also a LinnDrum in the track, programmed by Pål Waaktaar. Around that same time, a record executive named Jeff Ayeroff moved from A&M to Warner Bros. and became one of the song’s great champions. In the book I Want My MTV, he said he fell in love with the song immediately. And when he also saw a photo of the band, he wondered almost with amazement whether people really looked like that. For him, Morten Harket was one of the best-looking men in the world