| "Life in the Fast Lane" | ||||
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| Single by Eagles | ||||
| from the album Hotel California | ||||
| B-side | "The Last Resort" | |||
| Released | May 3, 1977 | |||
| Format | vinyl record | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||
| Length | 4:46 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Writer(s) | Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey, Don Henley | |||
| Producer | Bill Szymczyk | |||
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"Life in the Fast Lane" is a song written by Joe Walsh, Glenn Frey and Don Henley and recorded by the American rock band Eagles on their 1976 studio album Hotel California. It was the third single released from this album, and peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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It tells the story of a couple that takes their excessive lifestyle ("there were lines on the mirror, lines on her face") to the edge. On In the Studio with Redbeard, Glenn Frey revealed that the title came to him one day when he was riding on the freeway with a drug dealer known as "The Count". Frey asked The Count to slow down and the response was, "What do you mean? It's life in the fast lane!" In that same interview, Frey indicated that the song's central riff was played by Joe Walsh while the band was warming up in rehearsals and Walsh was told to "keep that, it's a song".
The song was also recorded for an MTV special as part of the Eagles 1994 reunion tour and Hell Freezes Over album.
The third verse features the line "Haven't seen a goddamn thing." Some radio stations censor the swear word with some guitar notes. While another edit, has the word "god" removed, and it was worded as "Haven't seen a damn thing."
In 2007, Jill Johnson covered the song on her album Music Row.[1]
The track "Livin' It Up" on Limp Bizkit's album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water samples the phrase life in the fast lane throughout. Frey, Henley, and Walsh are credited in the "lyrics by" portion of the liner notes.
The song's title was the inspiration for "Life on the Fast Lane", an episode from the first season of the TV series The Simpsons.
Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood sang the song at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
The song was used as the soundtrack for the roller coaster Eagles-Life in the Fast Lane, opened at Hard Rock Park in May 2008. It was SBNO (Standing but not Operating), but reopened on May 23, 2009, as The Iron Horse.[2]
The song is featured on the 1978 FM soundtrack.
In the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High a band covers the song at the graduation dance.
This song is featured as a downloadable song for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour.
The country music group Williams Riley released their version of the song to country radio on August 23, 2010.
In a Cocoa Pebbles commercial, Barney Rubble's pun is "That's life in the first lane." before he ran off and Fred Flintstone gave chase.
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