Now and Forever is the seventh studio album by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n soft rock band Air Supply

Air Supply

Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Graham Russell as guitarist and singer-songwriter and Russell Hitchcock as lead vocalist. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s...

, released in 1982. It was the band's last platinum album in America, and their last album to continue the band's successful popularity, peaking at #25 on US charts. The album contains the hit "Even the Nights Are Better

Even the Nights Are Better

"Even the Nights Are Better" is the title of a popular song from 1982 by the Australian group Air Supply. It was written by Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace and Ken Ball, a songwriting collaboration that also yielded a hit song for The Carpenters...

" (#5), along with the minor hits "Young Love" (#38) and "Two Less Lonely People in the World" (#38).

Track listing

1. "Now and Forever" (early faded album version) (Russell) - 3:50
2. "Even the Nights Are Better
   Even the Nights Are Better
   "Even the Nights Are Better" is the title of a popular song from 1982 by the Australian group Air Supply. It was written by Terry Skinner, J.L. Wallace and Ken Ball, a songwriting collaboration that also yielded a hit song for The Carpenters...
   
   " (Bell, Skinner, Wallace) - 3:57
3. "Young Love" (Russell) - 4:00
4. "Two Less Lonely People in the World" (Greenfield, Hirsch) - 3:59
5. "Taking The Chance" - 4:13
6. "Come What May" (Snow, Weil) - 3:56
7. "One Step Closer" (Russell) - 3:49
8. "Don't Be Afraid" (Esler-Smith, Russell) - 3:20
9. "She Never Heard Me Call" (Goh, Russell) - 3:24
10. "What Kind of Girl" (Goh, Russell) - 3:50

Personnel

• Ralph Cooper: Drums.
• Donn Davenport: Art Direction.
• Frank Esler-Smith
  Frank Esler-Smith
  Frank Esler-Smith was an arranger and keyboard player for the soft-rock band Air Supply in the 1970s and during their 1980s heyday....
  
  : Conductor, Keyboards, Orchestration.
• Rex Goh
  Rex Goh
  Rex Goh is a rock guitarist. In 1972, he moved to Australia, settling down in Sydney. He has toured and recorded with many famous artists including Air Supply, Savage Garden, Randy Crawford, Tom Jones and Daryl Braithwaite...
  
  : Guitar.
• Dave Green: Guitar, Bass.
• Karen Hewitt: Assistant Engineer.
• Russell Hitchcock
  Russell Hitchcock
  Russell Charles Hitchcock is an Australian musician and one half of the group Air Supply. He formed the group after meeting Englishman Graham Russell in 1975 on the set of a production of Jesus Christ Superstar....
  
  : Vocals.
• Leon Lecash: Photography.
• Harry Maslin: Producer, Engineer, Mixing.
• Lindsay Matthews: Photography.
• David Moyse: Guitar.
• Graham Russell
  Graham Russell
  Graham Cyrill Russell is a British musician and, with Russell Hitchcock, is one of the mainstays of soft rock group Air Supply which formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1975 and had top ten hits nationally and in United States.He released The Future, his 10-track, debut solo album...
  
  : Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals.
• John VanNest: Assistant Engineer, Mixing.
• Allen Zentz: Mixing.