In Popular Culture
In the 2011 series finale for ABC Family show Greek the episode closed out with a cover of "Forever Young" by Youth Group.
The 2010 television series Parenthood uses the second version of this song, "Forever Young," (2:49), on the album Planet Waves, as its theme song.
"Forever Young" is one of seven Dylan songs whose lyrics were reset for soprano and piano (or orchestra) by John Corigliano for his song cycle Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan.
Episode 12 of Season 1 of the television series Sons of Anarchy, opens and closes with a cover version of "Forever Young" sung by Audra Mae.
The Pretenders covered the song for their sixth studio album Last of the Independents and in the end credits to Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home.
Billy Corgan sang a cover version of the song on Bozo: 40 Years of Fun, the final episode of Chicago's long-running Bozo series.
On October 19, 2011, Norah Jones sang the song at the open-air memorial concert for Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
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