“Fly Like an Eagle” was a rock song released by the Steve Miller Band in 1976. The song rose all the way to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The song spent almost five months on the charts.
In an interview with CBS News, Miller admitted that the song went through three different versions. “We worked on it for years,” he said. “We were kind of like a jam band. We would play like about five hours a night, and it was about 20 minutes long.”
When speaking about the meaning behind the song during an interview with John Swenson, Miller revealed that the song was written as a political statement. “A lot of people don’t listen to the stuff,” he said. “They hear ‘Born In the U.S.A.’ and think it’s a great tune about America. Same thing with ‘Living in the U.S.A.’ It’s amazing how so many people don’t listen to the lyrics of songs. ‘Fly Like An Eagle’ is like that, and I think that’s why it’s still around, and why it’s still a great piece of music for us to play live. It’s always a really important part of our live performance.”
Miller continued, “I was trying to say these things as a young man when I was writing this stuff, and here it is 50 years later and 200 million people have heard this or more, and the songs are still around. They were always hidden in a simple shell. What they’re about was always presented in a simple way that will pull you in and hopefully make you think about what these things were really about.”
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This wasn’t the only big hit for the Steve Miller Band. They released several more legendary songs throughout the years that are commonly played on the radio, such as “The Joker,” “Abracadabra,” “Rock’n Me,” and “Jet Airliner.” Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2016.
He is currently 82.
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