A Life of Illusion

"A Life of Illusion"
Single by Joe Walsh
from the album There Goes the Neighborhood
B-side"Rockets"
ReleasedMay 1981
Recorded1973
GenreRock
Length3:30
LabelAsylum
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Joe Walsh
Audio
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"A Life of Illusion" is a song written by the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh and guitarist Kenny Passarelli, which became a hit and one of Walsh's most recognizable songs. It appears as the fifth track on Walsh's fifth solo studio album, There Goes the Neighborhood (1981). The majority of the track was originally recorded in 1973 as part of The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get sessions.