FOREVER YOUNG LAURA BRANIGAN
FOREVER YOUNG LAURA BRANIGAN, Laura Branigan July 3rd 1957 August 26th 2004 In loving Memory Forever Young has become something of a pop culture standard Originally written and recored by Alphaville in 1984 It has been performed by numerous musical groups and in different versions and has appeared in television series movies and advertisements The song plays during scenes in the television series Passions Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode 103: Underage Drinking: A National Concern the North American version of Queer as Folk season 1 episode 18 and One Tree Hill season 4 episode 16 It also plays in the movie Listen to Me and during the school dance scene of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite In 2006 and 2007 the song was used in advertisements for the Scandinavian banks SEB in Sweden and Nordea in Denmark It also appeared in prom themed advertisements for Saturn ION automobiles Just a year after the songs initial release pop singer Laura Branigan covered Forever Young on her 1985 album Hold Me and began a tradition of performing the song as an encore at her concerts In 1996 the Canadian Eurodance group Temperance released a cover version of the song which reached number 8 on the Canadian Dance Chart Idol 2006 contestant Sara Burnett performed Forever Young on the Swedish television show Her performance qualified her for the shows top 10 and appears on the soundtrack Det bästa från idol 2006 The best from Idol 2006 Other artists to have covered Forever Young in the years since its original release include the Countdown Singers DJ Space C David Monte Cristo DJ Company Dune BnH Emil Wakin Chau Fire Ice Interactive Waterboy Ella Tune Up! Youth Group and Axel Rudi Pell In 2001 Swedish group Ainbusk re wrote the song in their native language as an existential Christmas carol titled Förevigt nu