"Love Will Keep Us Alive", is the title of a song written by Jim Capaldi

Jim Capaldi

Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...

, Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well...

, and Peter Vale. It was performed first by the Eagles in 1994, during their "Hell Freezes Over" reunion tour. It was sung by bassist Timothy B. Schmit

Timothy B. Schmit

Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.-Early career:Raised in Sacramento, Schmit began playing in the folk music group...

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Song

According to some of the liner notes in the booklet to their 2003 greatest hits CD, this song was written when Carrack and Schmit were supposedly going to make a band during the late eighties or early nineties. Carrack wrote that song for the planned group but it was never done. So Schmit used the song for the Eagles' reunion album. This song was also recorded by Cappaldi and Dave Mason on the 40,000 Headman tour and live albumn.

Although the song was never formally released as a single

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 and did not reach the Billboard Hot 100

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 chart in the US, it did spend three weeks at #1 on the Billboard

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 adult contemporary chart

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 in early 1995 and was #22 on Billboards Hot 100 Airplay chart. In the United Kingdom

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, "Love Will Keep Us Alive" peaked at #52 on the UK Singles Chart

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Aside from being on the album Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over is a live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. The album contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live for an MTV special. It went to #1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. It is the band's second live album behind their...

, the song can be found on the Eagles' box set, Selected Works 1972-1999 and on the 2003 compilation album, The Very Best of Eagles.

The song also appears on Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack

Paul Carrack is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Carrack has been a member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music, been a session and touring musician for several others including Nick Lowe, and has enjoyed success as a solo artist as well...

's 2006 compilation album "Greatest Hits - The Story So Far".

Another version of the song can be found on Paul Carrack's 2007 album "Old, New, Borrowed and Blue", in a duet with Lindsay Dracass.