| "A Life of Illusion" | |
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| Single by Joe Walsh | |
| from the album There Goes the Neighborhood | |
| B-side | "Rockets" |
| Released | May 1981 |
| Recorded | 1973 |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:30 |
| Label | Asylum |
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| Producer(s) | Joe Walsh |
| Audio | |
| "A Life of Illusion" on YouTube | |
"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.