How Joe Walsh’s “In The City” went from Warriors to Eagles Image

How Joe Walsh’s “In The City” went from Warriors to Eagles

25 January 2023 - 15 mins
Podcast Series Behind The Song: Classic Rock Chronicles

“In The City” is best known as an album cut on 1979’s The Long Run, an album the Eagles cobbled together after many months and on the heels of their epic Hotel California album and tour. But it was first co-written by Joe Walsh for the soundtrack to the cult classic film The Warriors, and it’s his version you hear in the unforgettable end scene. Find out how this song came to be recorded by both Joe Walsh and the Eagles after the film was released in this episode of Behind The Song! 

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