Cover Versions
- Just a year after the song's initial release, pop singer Laura Branigan covered "Forever Young" on her album Hold Me and began a tradition of performing the song as an encore at her concerts.
- In 1987 German punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen re-worked the song as "Für immer Punk" ("Forever Punk") with guest appearances by the lead vocalists of Slime, Die Toten Hosen, and Die Ärzte, each contributing their own lyrical variation of the chorus, and ending with Alphaville singer Marian Gold singing the original chorus.
- In 1996 the Canadian eurodance group Temperance released a cover version of the song which reached number 8 on the Canadian Dance Chart.
- Other artists to have covered "Forever Young" in the years since its original release include DJ Space C, David Monte Cristo, DJ Company, Karel Gott (in 2000, with lyrics in German as "Für immer jung"), Bushido (in 2008, featuring Karel Gott with German lyrics) Paul Michiels, Dune & London Session Orchestra, B-Charme, BnH, Wakin Chau, Fire & Ice, Interactive, Ella, Tune Up!, Axel Rudi Pell, Wayne Wonder and Atrocity.
- In 2001 Swedish group Ainbusk re-wrote the song in their native language as a Christmas song titled "Förevigt nu" ("Forever Now" in Swedish).
- A cover version by Pluto was used in a 2007 tourism ad for New Zealand's "youngest country on Earth" campaign.
- In 2009, the song was used as the basis for the song "Young Forever" from Jay-Z.
- Tangerine Dream covered the song in their 2010 album Under Cover - Chapter One.
- "Forever Young" has also been covered by the German band Gregorian on their 2011 compilation Best Of 1990-2010.
- One Direction, who finished third in seventh series of The X Factor, recorded the song as a "winners song" for the 2010 finals had they won the competition. It was later leaked on the internet.
- Kim Wilde first sang the song live as part of her Come Out and Play Tour. In 2011 she recorded a studio version which was included as a bonus track on her covers album, Snapshots.
- Brandi Carlile performed the song in concert in 2011 and included the song as a hidden track on her live album Live at Benaroya Hall with the Seattle Symphony.
- In 2011, Sam Concepcion has covered the song for his third studio album with the same name under Universal Records (Philippines).
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