<P> "Love Will Keep Us Alive" is a song written by Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Peter Vale . It was first performed by the Eagles in 1994, during their "Hell Freezes Over" reunion tour, with lead vocals by bassist Timothy B. Schmit . </P> <P> According to the liner notes that accompanied their 2003 greatest hits CD, this song was written when Carrack, Capaldi, and Schmit were planning to form a band with Don Felder and Max Carl during the late eighties or early nineties . The band had the working name of Malibu Men's Choir . This never materialized, so Schmit proposed the song for the Eagles' reunion album . According to Felder, they sent demo tapes to the Eagles manager, Irving Azoff, who rejected it as not good enough . Felder thought it ironic that the Eagles would later record one of those rejected songs . </P> <P> Although the song was never formally released as a single in the US, and thus was not eligible to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 under the rules then in place, it did spend three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in early 1995 and was No. 22 on Billboard's Hot 100 Airplay chart . In the United Kingdom, "Love Will Keep Us Alive" was issued as a single and peaked at No. 52 on the UK Singles Chart . </P> <P> Aside from being on the album Hell Freezes Over, the song appears on the Eagles' box set, Selected Works 1972 - 1999 and the 2003 compilation album, The Very Best Of . </P>

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