As you may already know, and it’s abundantly clear if you spend any time poking around here on my blog, I have a busy life.  Sometimes it gets so busy, in fact, that I occasionally forget things.  One of those things is my Favorite Songs series.  I still need to work on a snappier title for it, but at least I remembered it, and here’s another song.

It’s by a German 80’s group called Freiheit (Germans probably know them as Münchener Freiheit), and it’s called “Keeping the Dream Alive.”  I first heard the song on the soundtrack for the movie Say Anything, back in the day, and fell in love with it instantly.   To my ears, it’s the best Paul McCartney song that he never wrote.

The video does look a bit dated, but it fits nicely with the spirit of the song.

The song has apparently had a nice resurgence here in this country in recent years, thanks to its inclusion on American Idol.  I watch precious little television, and have only seen that show a couple of times, but I can do internet research as well as anyone.

I was somewhat surprised to find out that the group are still active (dare I say it. . .keeping the dream alive?), and continue to put out new albums.  I’ll have to check those out.  Even if they hadn’t, though, they’d still be an incredible band in my book, based on this song alone.

Enjoy!

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