ALPHAVILLE - FOREVER YOUNG

FOREVER YOUNG

ALPHAVILLE

SONGWRITER: BERNHARD LLOYD; FRANK MERTENS &MARIAN GOLD

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: FOREVER YOUNG

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: SYNTH-POP

YEAR: 1984

 

          Alphaville is a German synth-pop band formed in Münster in 1982. They gained popularity in the 1980s. The group was founded by singer Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, and Frank Mertens. They achieved chart success with the singles "Forever Young", "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", "The Jet Set" and "Dance with Me". Gold remains the only continuous member of Alphaville.

      Forever Young is the debut studio album by German synth-pop band Alphaville. It was released on 27 September 1984 by Warner Music Group. Four singles supported the album, "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", "Forever Young", and "Jet Set". The album charted well, hitting the Top 20 in six European countries and reaching number 1 in Norway and Sweden. Alphaville followed up with their second album in 1986 with the release of Afternoons in Utopia.

         The album was re-released in a "super deluxe" edition in March 2019.

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while

Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies

Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst

Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

 

Let us die young or let us live Forever

We don't have the power, but we never say never

Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip

The music's for the sad man

 

Can you imagine when this race is won?

Turn our golden the faces into the sun

Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune

The music's played by the, the madman

 

Forever young

I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever, and ever

 

Forever young

I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever young

 

Some are like water, some are like the heat

Some are a melody and some are the beat

Sooner or later they all will be gone

Why don't they stay young?