Sunday, April 27, 2025

#967. Lineage of Song: “Forever Young”


Bob Dylan

Rod Stewart

Joan Baez


Here’s Bob again. It’s somehow still easy to take him for granted. It shouldn’t. The Rod Stewart version was apparently conceived as its own song, although there’s a ton of overlap. I never really got Rod Stewart as an artist. I kind of find him, David Bowie, Elton John, all of them to be careers that happened because they were willing to challenge expectations based on how they looked, outright displays of defiance that worked. We’re gonna sing in a traditional fashion but not look traditional, so our flamboyance is gonna cover the difference. Anyway.

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