Songoftheday 7/9/15 - It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast, and I had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last...

"Back In The High Life Again" - Steve Winwood
from the album Back In The High Life (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's SOTD comes from veteran British rock singer/songwriter Steve Winwood, whose "comeback" album Back In The High Life had already spun off three big hits with "The Finer Things", "Freedom Overspill", and the #1 pop hit "Higher Love". Winwood released the title track from the record, co-written with Will Jennings as the fourth single. The 'anthem' of the set was a natural for the soft-rock stations that still hung in there from the early 80s, while the harmony vocals from James Taylor certainly didn't hurt either...

"Back In The High Life Again" became the fourth top-20 pop hit from the album in August of 1987. The single also crowned the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart in Billboard for three weeks, while reaching #19 on their Mainstream Rock list. Over in Steve's native country, the single shockingly stalled down at #53.

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Here's Steve on tour in 1989...

and again a few years back...

...a rare (but shaky) clip with James Taylor...

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...and finally a cover by the late great Warren Zevon from 2000...

Up tomorrow: There's some abuse goin' on upstairs.