I played this song at my son's funeral 2 weeks ago. he died on his 21st birthday in a road accident. rip my son. u will be forever young. love u miss u.
My Father In-Law is in this Music Video. It was Australia's very first Skateboarding competition ever, sponsored by Coca-Cola, aired on ABC, and held in Sydney's Northern Suburbs in 1978, He was 14 years-old. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
If I remember correctly it was a commercial. This video and song got me reminiscing growing up in Southern California during the 70s and 80s ... Beyond amazing with good memories with the thought of I wish I could just do it all again. 🙏
@@danielavila5081 He is indeed! He just made a Skateboard for My Son and wrote Forever Young on the underside. He is the one in the thumbnail and appears in the video 3 times. Peace.
The sad part isn’t growing up, it’s the innocence that we lose through out the years. That’s what I miss the most; the days of innocence and ignorantly enjoying life without a worry. Make the most of your life guys, learn to love, communicate and have meaningful relationships. That’s what it’s all about
Mate hope you can live some days without the worrying because thats what Im liviing with, some days just not worth worrying about it. Fortunately people these days are the best to communicate, love and trust with everything going on, worse thing is the internet ont he phone capabilities of social media, pointless most of it, life goes on. Enjoy it, make a difference, be happy.
My husband spent many a day watching this clip before he died of cancer in February this year. We played it at his funeral. He was born and grew up on the Northern Beaches and his dad worked for Warringah Council and helped build this road. I’ve ordered the T Shirt just released for our son. The song makes me sad. It’s haunting but I love it.
I was raised in Qld and had the same experience. It's kinda eerie to watch as it's a snapshot of our youth that is long gone as the sunset of life is coming into view....
One of the guys in this video is a builder now and built part of my house, this song came on the radio while he was working and was telling us about this day of filming and thats what they all use to do back then, skate around get dirty and come home when the street lights turn on, those were the days...
True. My two little brothers were killed aged 24 and 27. The older one would’ve been 50 today. He would’ve hated that. Forever young is the one good thing to come of it all. 😢
Grew up in Australia in the 1970s. Great time to be a teenager. School holidays with long hot summers at the beach, and outdoors with mates from sunrise to sunset. In fact, on any given clear day most kids were outdoors, riding their bikes, playing sports or at the beach checking out the surf and the opposite sex!
Remember roaming pine plantations, and tea tree scrub plantations with fishing rod in one hand, and air gun in the other. No future generations will experience that. Ever. Sad.
Yep. Summers you could plan well in advance because the weather was actually steadier. Home by the time the lights came on. Exploring and just being kids. How did this latest lot of parents that grew up with that life allow themselves to get scared so much into ruining the last couple of generations childhoods. I shake my head.
+Tash Kash *Hugs tight* me too, the original video clip was filmed just up the road from where i lived as a child, when I first saw and heard it it meant little, but now? now it just makes me think about lost time and missed childhood and lost opertunities ... Anyone who says getting old is fun is a liar, I trully, honestly wish I could be forever young....
+Nicky Winters Thing is you choose wether you gona be forever young. Getting old is a concept we created. "Its hard to get old without a cause." Children live only for now :)
Time felt so slow when I was little. From 1996 to 2006 was only 10 years but it seemed like 100 years to me. However from 2006 to 2016... time really flies, damn
I'm going into my final year of schooling and my parents are moving away to study while I remain where I live to stay at the same school. Life changes so drastically it's frightening
+ThatYKEE™ Live your life and be happy. Listen to your heart, that's what this song is about i think. "Do you really want to live forever?" Everything is so much more important and everything is so much more beautiful because we will die. We will grow up, and grow old and then we die. And it's a gift man not a curse, a precious gift, we can hold close to our hearts because we get to cherish our family and friends everyday who give meaning to our lives. And hold deep in our hearts the loved ones who have left us.
Growing up and growing old is no sorrow. I’ve known too many people, who’ve died very young, so to me growing older is a precious gift and I welcome every wrinkle and grey hair. Aging faces are beautiful to me and laughter lines even more so.
@@javiermurgapayo8269 when I say things I never did as a child... its things that as an adult wouldn't be the same. Things that would only seem wild and exciting when you're young. It's just nostalgia.. like watching 1980s home movies.
@@josie50000 thank you for the clarification. Do it again, do not worry for the age !! Believe me, you will feel like you were young because all of us want to be ... Forever young
@@tukicat1399 This has nothing to do with the Bob Dylan song of the same name. The original is by Alphaville. The Bob Dylan and the Alphaville songs just share the same name but are completely different.
Songs like this are rare. They hit you in the heart each time and tears just come out of no where. I think it's because it's about something all humans and all creatures love and should love...life. Life really is precious and you're so lucky to be who you are; you won a lottery to be born to the life you are given. Always love yourself no matter what person/thing stands in your way
The original is a true story coming from people that were sitting in an underground bunker .,listen to the lyrics ..3 people stayed behind to tell the story ..the rest walked out into the atomic bomb after mass which obviously killed them so they stayed forever young rather than live underground and just wait to die
1975, I was 13 years old, without a care in the world, the only thing I had to worry about was how to have fun, now 44 years later, I watch this and smile to myself knowing I was there, great times
I’m with ya man. Those blonde kids playing outside all day could easily be me and my neighborhood gang back in 74’. I’d love to go back, just a week…just one week!
This song was released during my freshman year of college, so many memories. Late night hanging out in dorm room, trips to OC/San Diego beaches, meeting new people every week etc...awesome memories, you don't realize how good it was until decades later
I was there. This was held in 1975. I was 12 years old and mum drove me and a mate to this Skateboard Competition at the Coca Cola Factory that was at Frenches Forest.. I loved Skateboarding back in those early days, the steep hills, and doing hand stands down them on the board at times, was fun ....!!!
Thank you so much Dom, I lived in allambie heights wyarama street just a stones throw away. I remember when I was 6 seeing he footage on tv, mum and dad said it was shot up the road I have been asking everyone if they knew where.... thank you so much. Was it filmed by the ABC news?
There were some beautiful girls in the video right mate? I wonder where they are now, hehe. Anyways, from postkiwi.com: The music video, released this year, shows teenage skateboarders taking part in a contest at the Coca Cola factory at Frenches Forest, Sydney Australia, footage originally shown on Australian youth show GTK (Get To Know) in 1975.
I was there too. I first realised it when they released it, that it looked so familiar. I was a 20 year old with my then boyfriend (now hubby as I am a chick). It was a cool morning and we travelled over the otherside of Sydney to see a friend of ours skate. An acquaintance of my husband's was also skating he appears with the strange looking skateboard which was a modified snow ski. He died not long after this was taken, in a car crash driving back to Sydney from the snow. He was a surfer from Bondi. Most of these kids would have been surfers at the time.
My partner passed away at 28. This song was played at his funeral. He will always be for me forever young. Our youth and memories will be forever frozen in time. It’s hard to imagine my life moving forward into adulthood and beyond with him just being a memory, a beautiful one. He had an exuberant energy, was boisterous and playful and took risks. He will forever be young in my heart. I wish we could have lived onwards together.
Our time in the sun was great. our 20s self belongs to a decade as does our 30s self. I think we stay there and the new us moves on to the next chapter as we age.
Childhood and Youth were wonderful without social media, mobile phones or tv platforms. I am so glad and happy that I could live that lost kind of youth. Honestly I would not change that for being young today. We did not have so much entertainment offers, and some dreams were harder to get, but we were much happier with very simple things. This is being forever young to me.
So many times we are told to be who we aren't, to conform to what society wants, to live a safe life where we go to school, university, get a job, save up and buy a house, and retire 65 having living an ordinary life. Every grown-up you meet, will repeat this same mantra. Being young is just being yourself, and discarding what you are 'supposed' to do. Not caring about what you say or do, and not pretending to be someone else. The moment you stop trying to be who the world wants you to be, is the moment you start enjoying life a lot more.
The darkest moment in my life was when I had no direction. I'm a teacher now. I inspire others daily, help young people create goals, and instill the belief in them that they can be the best they can be, whatever that may be. Married to the woman of my dreams, house, baby on the way. Wouldn't change it for the world. Sometimes it's the little things...
My 18yr old brother's funeral song - he will be Forever Young :'( I've always loved this song, just never thought it'd bring me to tears every time it was played.......
I miss when people used to be outside and not stuck on their phones , I miss when kids use to ride bikes and not be stuck on tik tok I miss when life wasn’t about phones and people interested with eachother 😔it’s not like that no more
This Skateboarding was held in the Winter of 1975 near the Coca Cola Factory at Rodborough Rd., Frenchs Forest on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. It captures perfectly the then more carefree and innocent era of 1975 .....when we were Young!
Yeah, carefree. the Americans had just gotten out of a war that cost millions of lives, which had soiled over into Cambodia and would later cause the Cambodian genocide. The Israelis and Arabs had almost brought the world to nuclear extinction. The cold war was still going in full force. The IRA was terrorising Irish streets. Such a carefree time
He rest well man we gave him half that big cricket grin way 2 go redbacks hope zampa gets a world cup gigg if i had it my way j. Gillespie would have 1st delivery love my sa cricket even at bottom
Reminds me of another time like my school holidays during the 70s, where my friends and I would play cricket and footy down the park; handball in the driveway and race mud balls we made down the driveway. Backyard putt putt. Neighbours swimming pool and cold water melon. Cicadas croaking every being at 8pm on summer nights and dreamily lying in bed thinking about going to the beach the next day. Pinball games and 20 cents worth of mixed lollies down the local milk bar and paddle pops for 20 cents. Hurrying through dinner to run outside to play hide and seek and hopscotch. It was another world and I feel somehow that despite all the technology and in some ways because of it, today's youth are missing something wonderful. Omg take me back...when life and the world was simpler. No smartphones and Facebook to distract. Enjoying simple pleasures. I wanna cry. The sadness of remembering that which once gave so much joy, but is now no more.
I remember playing this song on RU-vid shortly after it came out on one of those big ass computers back in 2006. . .I was 10. . .I'm back again in 2016 and turning 20 tomorrow. . .All i can say is, time flies so fucking fast. . .take me back to my youth please! 😢 😢
I was 2 when the original version by Alphaville came out in 84. I remember as I got older my brother playing it on repeat and I loved it. Now THAT is wondering where the time has gone. This is a cool version though.
I remember when I was in 5th grade...good times with my grandpa, mentor, bestfreind, woke up to some dr pepper,bacon and eggs on football Sunday, back when the 49ers where with harbaugh and watched 49ers kick ass. Now he he's dead..been 2 years..been struggling with depression for too long. Life changes.
I'd just make some Bacon and eggs but leave out the Dr. Pepper and eat it next to a life size cutout picture of my grandfather. He's not gone he's right there you just can't see or hear him. He's tormented by this.
I remember being a 7 year old kid in Brooklyn reading all the skateboarding magazines and doing the tricks by myself. Spilled a lot, road rash, but still nailed them through practice. My heart was Dogtown, with my Simms deck, neoprene wheels and mailed instructions in pencil from somebody in Cali on how to put them on. I'm 48 now, and still ride. I love when the kids in the park say to me when I'm in my suit: " Mister... You sure you can do this?" I smile, start with a tic tac, gleam the cube, flip the deck and 360. My heart is still young, my body still works and I love when the kids ask me to show them some moves. They don't know my journey... But I relive it every time I get on a good board. Beautiful vid... Thank you.
Goose bumps reading your - I can't ride the board anymore, but happily still tease the kids about how good we were on the roads not smooth bowls - they love taking the p**s back. Stay safe
I love this song and this video. Just makes me so peaceful. In my 60s now, I still enjoy watching younger people having fun doing what they enjoy without causing a nuisance of themselves ❤❤
Those of us who were teenagers in the 90s and before especially relate to this video because we grew up in this type of world; just hanging out with your friends outside, biking, skating hanging out. No smartphone, no TV, no internet. Just each other. I'm class of 1998' and so grateful my teenage years were all in the 90s.
My teens were on the 80’s we had MTV…and TV of course BUT…time with friends were very simple..just enjoy, not mobile phones, not internet, not computers..my bought the first Mac in 88..only was used to write down papers…it was a sophisticated type writer!😅😅😅
Mine were in 2018-2025, and still are. The 80s and 90s must have been amazing. Nowadays, it's just shit. Maybe I'll look back at the 2020s in the year 2050 and think the times were really good, at least compared to 2050. I am growing up in a world, in which Tiktok is rotting youth and everyone is sitting at home playing video games or watching RU-vid all day.
i wish it was like this for me too...i really wish kids of my generation liked to do things like this. i want to make the most of our youth which i feel is going to be over soon :/
@@random-zz8ut It's not your fault because you have a technology that you grew up with and it molded you. Back in 1990 if we had the internet and smartphones, we would have ended up the same way.
Today world : hate - division - anger - degradation - jealousies ..It was a time of friendship and happiness. Kids today talk of geopolitics, children no longer exist , they born angry.
When I was younger this used to be played early in the morning on rage and before my dad went milking we would sit down and watched this. I will all ways remember this.
This song actually hits you really hard, right in the spot and makes you think about life, whether the past or even the future; it's sad with a hint of happiness
I remember hearing this song in middle school when Alphaville released it. I was early 30s when Youth Group did their version, which I think is superior. It is a beautiful, haunting song. Appreciate our lives, not just during the fleeting days of youth, but for the duration of the journey. It is usually the case that only in our advanced years do we finally see how amazing it is to be young.
This song makes me cry every time I hear it, because it played at one of my best friend's funeral. He was tragically taken away at just 19. Rest in peace K.K, you are forever young
This was the intro song to a mans funeral I’ll never forget. Thank you ray for the man you were, the family you protected and the life you absolutely loved to live. I miss you, I always will. I know you’ll remember the world as beautiful as you made it.
One of the best covers of one of the best songs ever made in my opinion. Always gives me goosebumps. Melancholy...aimless sweet youth.. living in the moment... fear of the future... I just love this song....
I am playing this song at my funeral, always loved this song!! and I prefer Youth Group version over all the others. I listen to this song and I am transported to my youth, friendship, laughter taking chances...when life was simple, not easy, just simple...
I'm 21 and i already feel old listening to this song. Reminds me of my school days lol. No care and responsibility. I remember when this cover came out in 2006 lol. Fun days. Wind chimes and spring days.
AlexDeAustria so sad about you and Johnny. As you can appreciate I have no control over how others react. Unfortunately I have been taken to hell and back and had online and work abuse from various people worldwide since 1998 because of this. I was even accused of hurting you myself! I have been refused jobs too in Australia because of this! It’s been both emotionally stressful and distressing for me. I wish you both well and send you both lots of healing thoughts. Hugs 🤗
I cannot think of any other song/film clip that within a few seconds of playing take me back to the 70s and 80s.. A time when we would leave our keys in the car overnight, the front door unlocked and watching quiz shows or playing cards with my parents was the norm. How times have changed... This song always makes me smile and realise life is too short to sweat the small things.. Love it.
nice you mention that thing with the keys...i was born in east germany.people there left house doors open in the 80's you basically had the chance to walk just into every house you would. cause the world was better in the 70's or 80's....i am not sure if we really move into a better time.i think we build more and more walls in our heads with all the political correctness. and this brings us back and not forward
this song reminds me of a friend of mine who died in 2011 in Northern Rivers of NSW Australia at an intersection at the Lismore Recycling depot. R.I.P. We miss you!
Well at 50 now, I can remember those times, mid to late 70s, Jaws n Mad Max at the drive in with the brothers Sandman panel-van, . . . back then it was great to be alive! And yep, I too had a skateboard!
Luv luv this song. The lyrics sum up life in one song. If only we could all be forever young. It's now 2023 & the song still plays on my heart strings & brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear this song.💎 💗💖✨⭐😻
This awesome song is so bittersweet! I love it! It reminds me of the things that I’m proud of doing, and the regrets of some of the things I wish that I hadn’t done…….
This is one of my favourite songs of all time . This song describes how I feel about life perfectly. :) I don't really want to live forever, but I'm afraid of becoming old.
This was uploaded on my 17th birthday. I used to listen to this song with the thought that my young years were ahead of me and I had time to live my youth. I never thought time would pass so soon. I miss the hope and promise of teenage years.
A father held a presentation at our school this year. About his son who died in a fight. One punch and the next day his son was gone. The way he told the story was touching and literally everyone had at least tears in their eyes. Next party, nobody was talking about the usual "Imma bash that guy" stuff. At the very end of his story, the father said: My son used to listen to this song on repeat. It's a sad memory now but he got what he wished for. Forever young. It's soothing but painful.
This song reminds Me of My Late Younger Brother - Who died on 14/11/14 ... He was 45 with 16 & 12 yr old Daughters ... He will always be "Forever Young" R.I.P. STU (Love U Bro)
I'm so lucky I was born at the right time and grew up in that era kids of today have no idea what they missed they can have their phones computers ECT but I'd have that era anyday
