There are some forces in rock history that move through time as if none of it has passed. Without a doubt, Steve Miller, 82, is one of them. His classic songs have permeated pop culture since the mid-'70s. Since then, five of his singles have cracked the Billboard Hot 100's top 10 rankings, with 13 others debuting within the top 100 positions.
One of his top-performing songs, “Fly Like an Eagle,” hit the number 2 spot and stayed there for 20 weeks. So when he recently did a rare performance of it, people were beyond hyped to see the classic live.
Almost every year, Steve Miller plays a special concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He plays exactly ONE classic rock hit and the rest is blues and jazz. He’s 82 years old and sound terrific. #classicrock #70s #stevemiller #livemusic #nyc
♬ original sound - Where Is Drew NowFor context, each year Miller performs a special jazz and blues concert at Lincoln Center, and he typically includes only one rock song per show.
“A master!,” someone simply proclaimed, referencing not only his songwriting skills but his guitar talent as well.
“His voice is still sounding so great! He always had a young-sounding voice and it’s incredible. I saw him live about a year ago and was just so impressed,” gushed another.
“One of the first songs to strike my soul! Love this!!! Bravo,” added another.
The song itself feels especially poignant today despite being penned in 1976. In 2020, he told CBS that getting it musically right was a bit of a challenge.
“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.”
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“It had wind, and it had Echoplex guitars, and it had all these different things, and it took a long time to get it all together ... when we used to play it live, we always had a mirror ball, and it felt really groovy, you know, and we had to put the synth on it.”
But Miller noted it was the content of the lyrics that truly made it powerful.
“Well, there were a lot of things about it,” he said. “It was a song about poverty and poor people and people who had been discriminated against. It was a political song embedded in a beautiful piece of floating, very interesting music.”
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