“Forever Now” by The Psychedelic Furs

"Forever Now" is the title song of the Psychedelic Furs' third album, cut in the spring of 1982 and released by Columbia/CBS that September. The English band had just come through a rough run of lineup changes that shrank them from six members to four, and for the first time they worked with Todd Rundgren, who produced, engineered with Chris Andersen and played keyboards.

Rundgren stamped his own sound on the album, bringing in cello and extra singers, and this track shows it: Ann Sheldon plays cello, Donn Adams and Gary Windo add horns, and Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman sing backup. Richard Butler takes the vocal, with John Ashton on guitar, Tim Butler on bass and Vince Ely on drums and percussion, and the whole band shares the writing and arranging credits. A band growing up fast, and sounding like it.

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