Today on my way to pick my son from school, the Paul Young version of the song 'Love of the Common People' played on the radio. I love this song, especially this version, with the deep sounds of synthesizer drums and chirpy backup vocals. It occured to me that people in my age group would remember this song too.
That made me think of other good songs which we used to listen to during that era. Alphaville's "Forever Young" came to mind.
Let’s dance in style, lets dance for a while Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you going to drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don’t have the power but we never say never Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip The music’s for the sad men Can you imagine when this race is won Turn our golden faces into the sun Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune The music’s played by the madmen Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever Some are like water, some are like the heat Some are a melody and some are the beat Sooner or later they all will be gone Why don’t they stay young It’s so hard to get old without a cause I don’t want to perish like a fading horse Youth is like diamonds in the sun And diamonds are forever So many adventures couldn’t happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams are swinging out of the blue We let them come trueWe may be 30 somethings, but in our hearts we are forever young.