Rod Stewart Young Turks

Rod Stewart’s videotaped rooftop performance of the song Young Turks (HD remastered) in Los Angeles is different from the official music video. The music video originally appeared on Dick Clark’s three-hour American Bandstand 30th Anniversary Special Episode on October 30, 1981. Young Turks (Remastered) by Rod Stewart first appeared in 1981 on his album Tonight I’m Yours. The track presented Stewart backed by a new synthpop and new wave sound, in part influenced by acts like Devo. The term young Turk, which originates from the early 20th-century secular nationalist reform party of the same name, is slang for a rebellious youth who acts contrary to what is deemed normal by society. The actual phrase “young Turks“ is in fact never heard in the song, the chorus instead centering on the phrase “young hearts, be free, tonight“, leading to the song frequently being misidentified as “Young Hearts“ or “Young Hearts Be Free“. The music for the song was
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