Headline : ‘Fly Like An Eagle’: When Steve Miller Band Took Flight

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With a titular track that’s recognized at first riff, Fly Like An Eagle stands the test of time as the epitome of 70s classic rock. After its release in May 1976, the album blazed its way to the Billboard chart’s No. 2 slot and introduced Steve Miller Band’s special brand of synth-driven spacey blues-rock that would spawn a string of hits and dominate the FM radio dial.

While 1968’s Sailor is considered to be their breakthrough album, the band came close many times to mainstream success, both with 1969’s Brave New World, which just missed the Top 20 and 1973’s platinum-selling The Joker. It took the band eight years and nine albums before they finally hit the big leagues and reached a whole new level of fame.

Steve Miller had experimented with different genres throughout his career, but it wasn’t until he drew upon all of his past influences that his sound would coalesce into something greater. Steeped in the blues from his Chicago days, Steve Miller Band was always a blues band at heart that experimented with hippy psychedelia.

As a mainstay of the San Francisco music scene in the late Sixties, the band had found early success after an impressive performance at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival and caught the eye of Capitol Records. The band then secured a five-album deal in 1967 with a $50,000 advance — the most lucrative deal ever offered to an unknown band at that time.

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