Talk:Forever Young (Alphaville song)

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Contents 1 A fading horse? 2 "Anti-war"? 3 staying on topic? 4 Rewrite 5 Karel Gott version

[edit] A fading horse?

What does the line "I don't want to perish like a fading horse" mean?Mr.WaeseL 22:50, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

A fading horse is one who runs in the lead but drops to the back of the pack before the finish. Watching that happen, it seems -- has the emotional taste -- that the horse simply loses heart and gives up. So, the upshot is, if you don't give up and perish like a fading horse, you can remain forever young ... if you don't remain forever young, and die young (whether it be at 25 or 95), you fade.

[edit] "Anti-war"?

Is the single line “ Are you going to drop the bomb or not?” really enough for this to be an “notable anti-war song” as per Category:Anti-war songs? -Ahruman 14:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I would agree; it is not even clear that they are referring to the use of nuclear weapons rather than a metaphor. Eran 04:12, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Of course it is an anti-war song. Can you imagine when this race is won? --87.177.242.64 (talk) 22:03, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] staying on topic?

Shouldn't this page be about the Alphaville 'version' of the song? There's a lot of extraneous information regarding the Youth Group cover version...

Thats because a couple of weeks ago, Forever Young (Youth Group song) was merged into this one. Personally I think the song is well known enough that it should have its own article. -- Chuq 00:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

I pretty much re-wrote the whole article, bringing together a lot of stray bits and cutting out some useless ones. I started by rewriting the Trivia section as prose, but then realized the whole thing needed re-structuring. As you can see, there is now a separate section for the Youth Group cover of the song with its own infobox. This is pretty common practice in other articles where you have a song that's been released as a single multiple times in multiple cover versions. Since both the Alphaville and Youth Group versions were released as singles, but they're versions of the same song, they belong in the same article. I also added a reference for most of the info on the Youth Group version. --IllaZilla 01:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Is there a precedent for articles on songs not having trivia sections? I don't recall if I have seen others that do; obviously, we should follow the consensus but I don't know what that is. Eran of Arcadia 18:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Karel Gott version

Karel Gott has sung a version of this recently (2007, I think) on his new CD. There was a commercial of it in german TV some time ago. However, he used german text. --Con^structor 16:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)