Love Will Keep Us Alive
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| Single by Eagles | ||||
| from the album Hell Freezes Over | ||||
| Released | November 1994 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
| Length | 4:02 | |||
| Label | The Eagles Recording Company II | |||
| Writer(s) | Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Peter Vale | |||
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"Love Will Keep Us Alive", is a song written by Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Peter Vale. It was performed first by the Eagles in 1994, during their "Hell Freezes Over" reunion tour. It was sung by bassist Timothy B. Schmit.
According to the liner notes in the booklet to their 2003 greatest hits CD, this song was written when Carrack and Schmit were going to make a band during the late eighties or early nineties. This project was never fully realized, so Schmit used the song for the Eagles' reunion album. This song was also recorded by Capaldi and Dave Mason on the 40,000 Headman tour and live album, and by Carrack and Lindsay Dracass on his 2007 album Old, New, Borrowed and Blue.
Although the song was never formally released as a single and did not reach the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, it did spend three weeks at #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in early 1995[1] and was #22 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart. In the United Kingdom, "Love Will Keep Us Alive" peaked at #52 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]
Aside from being on the album Hell Freezes Over, the song appears on the Eagles' box set, Selected Works 1972-1999, the 2003 compilation album, The Very Best of Eagles, and on Paul Carrack's 2006 compilation album, Greatest Hits - The Story So Far.
[edit] References
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
- ^ UK Singles Chart info at chartstats.com
| Preceded by "I'm the Only One" by Melissa Etheridge |
Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single January 28 - February 11, 1995 |
Succeeded by "Take a Bow" by Madonna |
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