Fly Like an Eagle (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Fly Like an Eagle
from Album = Fly Like an Eagle
Artist = Steve Miller Band


Released = May 1976
Recorded = 1975
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:00 (single), 4:55 (album)
Label = Capitol Records
Writer = Steve Miller
Producer = Steve Miller
Charts = #2 (U.S. Hot 100)
* All Music Guide: rating-5|4.5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ymdgyl2jxpeb link]
Last single = "Rock'n Me"
(1976)
This single = "Fly Like an Eagle"
(1977)
Next single = "Jet Airliner"
(1977)Infobox Single
Name = Fly Like an Eagle


Artist = Seal
from Album = Space Jam soundtrack and
Released = February 10 1997
Recorded = 1996
Genre =
Length = 4:14
Label = ZTT / Warner Bros.
Writer = Steve Miller
Producer = Trevor Horn
Chart position = * #10 (US)
* #13 (UK)
* #61 (Germany)
Last single = "Don't Cry / Prayer For the Dying"
(1996)
This single = "Fly Like An Eagle"
(1997)
Next single = "Human
Beings"
(1998)"Fly Like an Eagle" is a song written by Steve Miller for the album "Fly Like an Eagle". The song went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of January 8, 1977. The single edit can be found on "Greatest Hits 1974-78". The artist Seal also covered this song for the "Space Jam" soundtrack, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Polvo covered the song live, introducing it with 'This is a song about blatant localism'. The song has an unusually mellow and trippy feel. It contains one the few famously known instances of the use of the word "shoe" as a verb.

An earlier 1973 version of the song features a more bluesy and less funk-inspired rhythm, and guitar taking the synthesizer parts (albeit with similar delay effects). The lyrics are slightly different, indicating that the place the eagle wants to fly away from is a Native American reservation.

The main guitar hook in the song was first used in a slightly different form on Miller's 1969 track "My Dark Hour" (which featured Paul McCartney).

The song has also been used in advertisements by the United States Postal Service with the introduction of its new stylized "Eagle" logo.

The song has a parody called "Fry Up an Eagle" by comedian Tim Cavanagh about a man's curious appetite for unusal animals, specifically the bald eagle which was taken off the endangered species list within the past decade.