TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
THE EAGLES
SONGWRITERS: DON HENLEY; GLENN FREY & RANDY MEISNER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ONE OF THIS NIGHTS
LABEL: ASYLUM RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1975
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles and
six number-one albums, six Grammy
Awards, and five American
Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most
successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America. Founding members Glenn Frey (guitars, vocals), Don Henley (drums, vocals), Bernie
Leadon (guitars, vocals) and Randy Meisner (bass guitar, vocals), were recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her, and all playing on her third
solo album, before venturing out on their
own on David Geffen's
new Asylum Records label.
Their debut Eagles in 1972 spawned two Top 20 singles in the US and Canada: "Take It Easy"
and "Witchy Woman".
The next year's follow up, Desperado, only peaked at number 41 in the
US, although "Desperado"
and "Tequila
Sunrise" became two of the band's most popular
tracks. In 1974, guitarist Don Felder joined, and On the
Border produced the top-40 hit "Already Gone" and the Eagles' first
number-one song in the US and Canada, "Best of My Love". In 1975, guitarist and vocalista
Joe Walsh replaced Leadon, and the album One
of These Nights became their first Top 10
album in many countries. It included the number-one US hit "One of These Nights", which
was their first Top Ten hit outside of North America, and US top-five songs
"Lyin'
Eyes", and "Take It to the Limit". Their
1976 compilation Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is still
the best-selling album in the United States,
with 38 million sold, and primed the public for the release in late 1976 of Hotel California, which would sell more
than 26 million copies in the U.S. alone, (still ranking 3rd all time for US
sales), and more than 42 million copies worldwide. The album yielded two number-one
singles in the US and Canada, "New
Kid in Town" and "Hotel
California", the latter of which became their only Top Ten hit in the
United Kingdom, while also reaching the Top Ten in New Zealand and many
European countries, including rising to number two in France.
Meisner left the band in 1977, replaced by Timothy B. Schmit,
and the Eagles released their last studio album for nearly 28 years in 1979
with The
Long Run, which spawned the North American number-one
song "Heartache Tonight",
which also became their biggest hit in Australia (number 13), and the North
American top-ten hits "The
Long Run" and "I
Can't Tell You Why". The Eagles broke up in
July 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the álbum Hell Freezes Over,
a mix of live and new studio tracks. They toured consistently and were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In
2007, the Eagles released Long
Road Out of Eden, their sixth number-one album in
the US, and launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour in 2008 to
support it. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the band's documentary release, History
of the Eagles. Following Frey's death in
January 2016 and a one-year hiatus, the Eagles re-formed in 2017, with Glenn's
son Deacon Frey and Vince Gill sharing lead vocals for Frey's songs.
The Eagles are one of the world's best-selling bands, having
sold more than 200 million records, including 100 million sold in U.S
alone. They were ranked number 75 on Rolling
Stone's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
"Take It to the Limit" is a song by
the Eagles from their fourth album One
of These Nights from which it was issued as
the third single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also the Eagles' greatest success to that point in the UK,
going to No. 12 on the charts. Billboard ranked it as the Nº. 25 song for
1976.
The song was written by Eagles' members Randy Meisner,
Don Henley and Glenn Frey.
Meisner, who sang
lead on it, says the song began as his solo composition. As
it remained unfinished when time came for the One of These Nights album to be
recorded, Henley and Frey assisted Meisner in completing it. Meisner's performance of the song
was popular with the audience in Eagles' concerts, but disputes over his
reluctance to perform it would also directly lead to Meisner's departure from
the band.
All alone at the end
of the of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have
Loved me and I never knew
You know I've always been a dreamer
(spent my life running 'round)
And it's so hard to change
(Can't seem to settle down)
But the dreams I've seen lately
Keep on turning out and burning out
And turning out the same
So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
You can spend all your time making money
You can spend all your love making time
If it all fell to pieces tomorrow
Would you still be mine?
And when you're looking for your freedom
(Nobody seems to care)
And you can't find the door
(Can't find it anywhere)
When there's nothing to believe in
Still you're coming back, you're running back
for more
So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time
Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit
Take it to the limit one more time.
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