The Young Go First

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"The Young Go First"
Single by Warm Guns
from the album Instant Schlager
B-side "Rip Off"
Released1980
RecordedWerner Studio, Copenhagen
Genre Rock, new wave
Length4:23
Label Vertigo Records
Songwriter(s) Lars Muhl
Producer(s) Nils Henriksen
Warm Guns singles chronology
"Hip Shot"
(1979)
"The Young Go First"
(1980)
"Arrivederci"
(1981)

"The Young Go First" is a song by the Danish rock band Warm Guns. It was released as a single from the band's 1980 album Instant Schlager . It was a small national hit [1] and got radio airplay in Germany and Australia, where it reached the Australian top 20 singles chart. [2]

Contents

The Danish pop group Sound of Seduction covered the song in 1993 on the Lars Muhl tribute album From All of Us....

Track listing

  1. "The Young Go First" (Muhl) – 4:23
  2. "Rip Off" (Muhl/Hauschildt) – 2:29

Personnel

Notes

  1. Bille (1997): p. 309
  2. Muhl (1993): p. 148

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