Alphaville "Forever Young" LP VG+ OOP OMD Depeche Mode New Order
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Alphaville "Forever Young" LP Atlantic Records (US)
Vinyl is VG+, Jacket is VG+
Classic!
Track Listing:
A1 A Victory Of Love Drums [Additional] – Curt Cress 4:14 A2 Summer In Berlin 4:45 A3 Big In Japan Backing Vocals – Wednesday (2)Music By, Lyrics By – Mark SimonsProducer – Andreas Budde 4:43 A4 To Germany With Love Bass – Ken TaylorDrums – Curt CressRecorded By [Drums, Bass] – Ulli Rudolph* 4:15 A5 Fallen Angel Drums [Additional] – Curt Cress 3:55 B1 Forever Young Backing Vocals – Gulfstream, The Rosie SingersBass – Ken TaylorDrums – Curt CressRecorded By [Drums, Bass] – Ulli Rudolph* 3:45 B2 In The Mood Backing Vocals – GulfstreamDrums – Curt CressRecorded By [Drums] – Ulli Rudolph*Soloist, Vocals – Ralph Vornberger 4:29 B3 Sounds Like A Melody Producer – Andreas Budde, Andreas BuddeStrings – String Section Of The Deutsche Oper Berlin* 4:42 B4 Lies 3:32 B5 The Jet Set Backing Vocals – The Claudias, Wednesday (2)Drums [Additional] – Curt Cress 4:52 Alphaville is a German group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were lead singer Marian Gold (real name: Hartwig Schierbaum, born 26 May 1954 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia), Bernhard Lloyd (real name: Bernhard Gößling, born 2 June 1960 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia), and Frank Mertens (real name: Frank Sorgatz, born 26 October 1961 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia). The band was at first named "Forever Young" before being changed to "Alphaville". They achieved chart success with the singles "Big in Japan", "Jet Set", "Dance With Me" and "Forever Young".Forever Young (1984)
In autumn 1984, they released their debut album, Forever Young, produced by Colin Pearson, Wolfgang Loos and Andreas Budde. Despite its success, Frank Mertens left the band that year and was replaced in January 1985 by Ricky Echolette (born Wolfgang Neuhaus, in Cologne on 7 August 1960), who was credited on the Afternoons in Utopia album. Forever Young on the surface, is a hopeful song celebrating the virtues of youth, but a closer listen reveals a fear of aging and death. The song was written during the Cold War, where the singer is "hoping for the best, but expecting the worst; are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"[4]
"Big in Japan" was Alphaville's biggest hit, topping the charts in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, Venezuela, and the US Billboard Dance Chart (the group's only Top 10 on any Billboard chart). The single also reached the Top Five in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Ireland and South Africa. It became the group's only Top 20 single in the UK, peaking at No. 8. "'Big In Japan' tells about a couple of lovers trying to get off Heroin. They both imagine how great it would be to love without the drug: no steal, no clients, no ice age in the pupil, real emotions, true worlds. Till nowadays Berlin station Zoo is an important meeting place for junkies. That's why this place became a venue of the song."
The band's next two singles, "Sounds Like a Melody" and "Forever Young", were also both European Top 5 successes, although the former track failed to make an impression on the American charts.
Amid reports that pop star Laura Branigan was featuring the song on her next album, Hold Me, Alphaville's "Forever Young" was re-released as a single in the US, but it did not prove to be massively popular. Branigan's version, though promoted on stickers adorning the album, remained an album cut in the US. She performed the song as an encore at nearly every concert she performed, until her death in 2004. The Alphaville version was released a third time in the US in 1988, to promoteAlphaville: The Singles Collection, and peaked at No. 65, their highest charting (and also last) single on the Billboard Hot 100. International re-releases of Alphaville's "Forever Young" followed in 1989, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2009. Several covers have been recorded featuring male or female vocalists often erroneously attributed to be Alphaville's Marian Gold or Laura Branigan.
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