Forever Young (album)

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Forever Young
Studio album from Alphaville

Publication
(s)

September 27, 1984

  • 15th March 2019

admission

July 1984 - August 1984

Label (s) Warner , Atlantic

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Synth pop

Title (number)

10

occupation
  • Bernhard Lloyd (Bernhard Gössling): keyboards, programming
  • Frank Mertens: Keyboards

production

Andreas Budde , Wolfgang Loos , Colin Pearson

chronology
- Forever Young Afternoons in Utopia
(1986)
Single releases
5th January 1984 Big in Japan
17th May 1984 Sounds like a melody
20th September 1984 Forever Young
February 28, 1985 Jet set
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Forever Young
  DE 3 10/15/1984 (36 weeks)
  AT 16 11/15/1984 (5 weeks)
  CH 4th 10/14/1984 (21 weeks)
  US 180 12/22/1984 (15 weeks)
Singles
Big in Japan
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 02/20/1984 (23 weeks)
  AT 4th 04/15/1984 (12 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/25/1984 (18 weeks)
  US 66 11/24/1984 (10 weeks)
Sounds like a melody
  DE 3 06/04/1984 (20 weeks)
  AT 3 07/15/1984 (12 weeks)
  CH 4th 06/24/1984 (14 weeks)
Forever Young
  DE 4th 10/08/1984 (20 weeks)
  CH 3 10/21/1984 (15 weeks)
  US 65 December 24, 1988 (18 weeks)
Jet set
  DE 11 03/25/1985 (12 weeks)
  CH 13 March 31, 1985 (8 weeks)

Forever Young is the debut album by the German synthpop group Alphaville , which was released on September 27, 1984 by the Warner Music Group .

background

Influences from Roxy Music and Kraftwerk were attested to the album . It was produced by Andreas Budde , Wolfgang Loos and Colin Pearson and also mixed by Wolfgang Loos. Ken Taylor played bass, Curt Cress drums and percussion.

The release in September 1984 preceded the two single releases Big in Japan and Sounds Like a Melody , before Forever Young was released on the release date. The record sold about two million times. The album Forever Young reached the top 20 in six European countries, in two of them, Norway and Sweden, number 1, in the USA, however, it was only able to reach number 180. In Sweden the album got a Rockbjörnen in 1984 for the best "foreign album of the year".

For the album's 35th birthday, a super deluxe version was released on March 15, 2019 , which brought it back into the charts. In Germany, Forever Young climbed again to number eight in the album charts between March 22 and 28, 2019, and made it to number one on the vinyl charts in April 2019

On the occasion of Forever Young's anniversary , Alphaville played the entire album live in one piece at a concert on April 10, 2019 in the Batschkapp in Frankfurt .

Reviews

The reviews were generally positive. Allmusic's Tim DiGravina called Forever Young a "classic synth-pop album". He compared Marian Gold's "Schmachtgesang" with the Bryan Ferrys . The album was rated 4.5 out of 5. Answers.com described the album as a “good ride, from start to finish”.

Track list

  1. A Victory of Love - 4:14
  2. Summer in Berlin - 4:45
  3. Big in Japan - 4:43
  4. To Germany with Love - 4:15
  5. Fallen Angel - 3:55
  6. Forever Young - 3:45
  7. In the Mood - 4:29
  8. Sounds Like a Melody - 4:42
  9. Read - 3:32
  10. The Jet Set - 4:52

Awards

The album received 1 × platinum in Sweden, 3 × gold in Germany and 1 × gold each in Switzerland, Norway, France and South Africa.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date "Sounds Like a Melody"
  2. ↑ release date "The Jet Set"
  3. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts US
  4. ↑ a b https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000206620
  5. ↑ Official German charts: Top 100 album charts from March 22nd to 28th, 2019
  6. ↑ Official German charts: Top 20 vinyl charts in April 2019 .
  7. ↑ All Music Guide . answers.com. Retrieved December 29, 2010.