Another top 10 for David Guetta

[tall_guy1]

This time with Ava Max...Forever Young. He had I'm Good a few years ago with Bebe Rexa. While dance music has largely died out, he still has a good track record in recent years.

 

[johnbasalla]

The original hit version of "Forever Young" was by the band Alphaville who are from Germany. It was a big hit in a number of countries, but not as big in the U.K. and the U.S. However, in the U.S., the same version made appearances on the Billboard "Hot 100" twice. In 1985 it peaked at #93 and in 1988-1989 it made it up to #65. Was it associated with a movie or TV show on its more successful second outing in 1988?

In the new version David Guetta, Alphaville and Ava Max are all credited. Ava Max sings the new verses.
"Forever Young" has been remade by other artists. Alphaville has re-visited this song with new mixes, and the like. There are long write-ups about "Forever Young". Can we call it a Forever Song?

 

[CCBInMI]

Laura Branigan was quite possibly the first (or at least one of the first) artists to cover it, as she did a version on her 1985 album "Hold Me" which came out just a few months after Alphaville's original charted in the U.S. I'm guessing she must have heard the song and liked it despite its meager US chart showing. Perhaps she had hopes of doing for it what she did with "Gloria" and "Self Control" in exposing a massive European hit to a wider audience.