Life In The Fast Lane
	Produced by Bill Szymczyk
	Released on May 1977
	US CHART POSITION #11 (charted May 14, 1977 for 11 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
E-45403 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

H otel California was the band’s masterpiece. It captured, for generations, the decadence of a decade. Using California as a metaphor for our own troubled social and moral state, Eagles showed a civilization in decline. The third single, “Life in the Fast Lane,” drew its inspiration (according to Songfacts) from a car ride that Glenn Frey had with a drug dealer. The opening guitar riff from Joe Walsh is amp’d up country rock at its finest. The B side, “The Last Resort,” is about man’s destruction of the beautiful world around him (and woman’s destruction of the beautiful world around her too, since we couldn’t do this without you). There’s a short discussion of Don Henley’s lyrical intent here.

E-45098 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

TRACK LISTING

1. LIFE IN THE FAST LANE    (Joe Walsh/Don Henley/Glenn Frey)    4:46
2. THE LAST RESORT    (Don Henley/Glenn Frey)    7:25
   
   GER 7-inch single
   
1. LIFE IN THE FAST LANE
2. WASTED TIME
   
   Asylum Spun Gold 7-inch single
   
1. LIFE IN THE FAST LANE    (Joe Walsh/Don Henley/Glenn Frey)    4:46
2. PEACEFUL, EASY FEELING    (Jack Tempchin)    4:16

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