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The Long Run by  ReleasedSeptember 24, 1979RecordedMarch 1978 – September 1979Studio Various Length42:50 chronology
(1976)The Long Run
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(1980) from The Long Run ""
Released: September 18, 1979 ""
Released: November 27, 1979 ""
Released: February 4, 1980 Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingC+4/10

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by American  group the . It was released in 1979, on  in the United States and in the United Kingdom. This was the first Eagles album to feature , who had replaced founding member  and the last full studio album to feature  before his termination from the band in 2001.

This was the band's final studio album for , and would turn out to be their last studio album until 2007's .

Three singles were released from the album, "", "", and "". "Heartache Tonight" reached No. 1 on the singles chart and won a . The album was certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA and has sold more than eight million copies in the US.

Background

The album was originally intended to be a double album. The band could not come up with enough songs and the idea was therefore scrapped. The recording was protracted; they started recording in 1977, and the album took 18 months to record in five different studios, with the album finally released in September 1979. According to , the members of the band were "completely burned out" and "physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively exhausted" from a long tour when they started recording the album, and they had few songs. However, they managed to put together ten songs for the album, with contribution from their friends  and  who co-wrote with Frey and Henley on "". (Souther also got songwriting credit on "Teenage Jail" and "The Sad Cafe".)

According to Henley, the title track was in part a response to press articles that said they were "passé" as disco was then dominant and punk emerging, which inspired lines such as "Who is gonna make it/ We'll find out in the long run". He said that the inspiration for the lyrics was also "irony", as they wrote about longevity and posterity while the group "was breaking apart, imploding under the pressure of trying to deliver a worthy follow-up to ".

Randy Meisner decided to leave the Eagles after an argument in  during the Hotel California Tour in June 1977. He was replaced by , who brought an unfinished song to the band, "". Schmit wrote the song based loosely on his own experiences; both Henley and Frey liked the song and they completed the song together.  also contributed a song on the record – "", which was first recorded by Walsh for the movie soundtrack for . Don Felder wrote the tune for "The Disco Strangler" using a four-on-the-floor disco beat as the basis for the composition. Henley wrote the lyrics. Henley intended the song to be an antidote to disco as both he and the rest of the band disliked disco, which was the most popular musical genre at the time. The song "The Sad Cafe" was inspired by the nightclub in Hollywood where the Eagles once played, and also by 's restaurant that they frequented, while "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" was written as an homage to Sixties "" such as the song "" by .

The album was produced by , although the Eagles were listed as co-producers.

Album pressing

The original  pressings of The Long Run (Elektra/Asylum catalog no. 5E-508) had text engraved in the run-out groove of each side, continuing an in-joke trend the band had started with their 1975 album :

Side one: "Never let your monster lay down" Side two: "From the Polack who sailed north" (may be a reference to the producer of the album ) Critical reception

Reviewing the album retrospectively in , critic William Ruhlmann wrote that the album was a "major disappointment, even though it sold several million copies and threw off three hit singles," adding that the album "reportedly was planned as a double album before being truncated to a single disc. If these were the keepers, what could the rejects have sounded like?"

Grammys YearNominee / workAwardResult"Heartache Tonight"Won Commercial performance

When released in September 1979, The Long Run debuted at number two on 's Pop Albums chart and a week later hit number one. It was their last number one album of the 1970s, and stood for eight weeks in the number one slot. The Long Run was first certified  by the  (RIAA) on February 1, 1980, and reached 7× Platinum status on March 20, 2001. It has sold more than eight million copies in the US.

The album generated three Top 10 singles, "", the album's title cut, and "". Those singles reached No. 1, No. 8 and No. 8 respectively. The band also won a  for "Heartache Tonight".

Track listing Side oneNo.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength1."" 3:422."" Henley Frey 4:563."" 3:464."The Disco Strangler" Henley Frey Henley2:465."King of Hollywood" Henley Frey Henley and 6:27Side twoNo.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength1."" Henley Frey Frey4:272."Those Shoes" Henley Frey Felder Henley4:573."Teenage Jail" Henley Frey Souther Henley and Frey3:444."The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" Henley Frey Henley2:215."The Sad Café" Henley Frey Walsh Souther Henley5:35