“Forever Young” by Rod Stewart

"Forever Young" was the big-hearted moment on Out of Order, Rod Stewart's 1988 album for Warner Bros., and he wrote it with two members of his own band, Jim Cregan, who plays acoustic guitar on it, and keyboard man Kevin Savigar. Stewart later explained it was about his children: he had realized that touring had cost him around five years of watching Sean and Kimberly grow up.

Bernard Edwards and Andy Taylor produced it with Stewart, Edwards on bass and Taylor taking the guitar solo, with Tony Brock on drums and Michael Landau on guitar. The lyric's shape sat so close to Bob Dylan's song of the same name that the finished track went to Dylan for his blessing, and the two agreed to share ownership and Stewart's royalties. It climbed to No. 12 on the Hot 100 and No. 9 in Canada.

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