Love Will Keep Us Alive

"Love Will Keep Us Alive" is a song written by Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Peter Vale and produced by the Eagles, Elliot Scheiner, and Rob Jacobs. It was first performed by the Eagles in 1994, during their Hell Freezes Over reunion tour, with lead vocals by bassist Timothy B. Schmit. This is the last single to feature Don Felder, who was terminated from the band in 2001.

"Love Will Keep Us Alive"
Single by Eagles
from the album Hell Freezes Over
ReleasedNovember 1994
GenreSoft rock, country rock, adult contemporary, rock, pop rock,
Length4:02
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Eagles, Elliot Scheiner, Rob Jacobs
Eagles singles chronology
"Get Over It"
(1994)		 "Love Will Keep Us Alive"
(1994)		 "Learn to Be Still"
(1994)

Although the song was never formally released as a single in the US, and thus was not eligible to appear on the US Billboard Hot 100 under the rules then in place, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in early 1995[1] and reached number 22 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart. In the United Kingdom, "Love Will Keep Us Alive" was issued as a single and peaked at number 52 on the UK Singles Chart.[2]

The song was nominated at the 38th Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Aside from being on the album Hell Freezes Over, the song appears on the Eagles' box set Selected Works: 1972–1999 and their 2003 compilation album, The Very Best Of.

Paul Carrack recorded the song for his 1996 album, Blue Views; it also featured on his 2006 compilation album, Greatest Hits – The Story So Far.

In 2011, Paul Carrack and Timothy B. Schmit recorded the song in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and released it in the UK on the Carrack label.[3]

Background

According to the liner notes that accompanied their 2003 greatest hits CD, this song was written when Carrack, Capaldi, and Schmit were planning to form a band with Don Felder and Max Carl during the late eighties or early nineties.[4] The band had the working name of Malibu Men's Choir.[5] This never materialized, so Schmit proposed the song for the Eagles' reunion album. According to Felder, they sent demo tapes to the Eagles manager, Irving Azoff, who rejected it as not good enough.[6] Felder thought it ironic that the Eagles would later record one of those rejected songs.[7]

Personnel

Charts

Year-end charts
Chart (1995) Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[8] 64

Cover versions

"Love Will Keep Us Alive" was also recorded by Capaldi and Dave Mason on their 40,000 Headman tour and live album, and by Carrack (duet with Lindsay Dracass) on his 2007 album Old, New, Borrowed and Blue.

The song was covered by Canadian-Australian singer Wendy Matthews and released as a single in 1995 as "Love Will Keep Me Alive." The single comes from her 1994 album The Witness Tree.

Terry Lin also covered this song on his 1999 compilation Love Singles.[9]

See also

References
  1. Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  2. "OfficialCharts.com Is For Sale". Official Charts Company.
  3. "Paul Carrack – A Different Hat". Allmusic. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  4. Crowe, Cameron (August 2003). "Conversations with Don Henley and Glenn Frey". The Uncool. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  5. "Don Felder Talks Eagles Gear, "Hotel California" and His Slide Guitar Influences".
  6. Don Felder and Wendy Holden, Heaven and Hell: My Life with the Eagles (1974–2001). John Wiley and Sons, 2008, 235.
  7. Felder and Holden, 252.
  8. "RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1995". RPM. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
  9. "Love Will Keeps Us Alive (Live)-林志炫_无损下载_百度云网盘_91flac.com无损音乐网". www.91flac.com.
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