Forever Young - Laura Branigan

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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, It's 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 song's 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 show's 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".

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Uploaded: April 9, 2007 at 1:36 am
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Length: 00:03:46
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Video Comments:
benstarsky (December 3, 2008 at 9:58 am)
ive never heard of her but she had a voice man
taub2007 (December 2, 2008 at 7:07 am)
good... maravilhoso
sunev16 (December 2, 2008 at 4:58 am)
This music is original from Laura or from Alphaville?
BraniFan777 (November 29, 2008 at 3:57 am)
An absolutely beautiful song sung by Laura, the more I listen, the more I enjoy it!
I agree Laura is now forever young, singing in a heavenly choir.
dragulless (November 28, 2008 at 9:19 pm)
Pleasant this version sung by Laura Branigan.
rphillips111 (November 27, 2008 at 3:02 pm)
Beautiful! Before listening to it, I thought it was the Dylan Song.
botan7730 (November 26, 2008 at 9:43 am)
I love her
she was a really good singer
It's very sad think that she's now dead
I love this song singed too by Hartwig Schierbaum
rickvg11111 (November 26, 2008 at 1:41 am)
What a voice,Sad she had to leave us at a young age!!!
JasOLog (November 24, 2008 at 6:44 pm)
Beautiful.
jiggi4 (November 22, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
and now shes forever young in heaven