Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)

{{short description|Song by Don Felder}}

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| name = Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)

| cover = Heavy_Metal_(Takin'_a_Ride)_-_Don_Felder.jpg

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| type = single

| artist = Don Felder

| album = Heavy Metal: Music from the Motion Picture

| B-side = All of You

| released = July 1981

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| genre = Hard rock

| length = 4:58

| label = Asylum Records

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| writer = Don Felder

| producer = Don Felder

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"Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" is a song by Eagles guitarist Don Felder with lead vocals sung by Felder and backing vocals sung by Timothy B. Schmit and Don Henley. It is the theme song of the animated film Heavy Metal, not to be confused with the song of the same title by Sammy Hagar, also included on the same movie soundtrack. The B-side, "All of You", is also a track on the film's soundtrack album.

"Heavy Metal" was Felder's only solo chart hit. The song charted in the United States, reaching No. 43 on the Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990. {{ISBN|0-89820-089-X}}. and number 42 on Cash Box.[http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19811024.html "Cash Box Top 100 Singles", October 24, 1981] It spent four months on the pop charts. On the Mainstream Rock chart, "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" peaked at number five.[https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-mainstream-rock-tracks/1981-09-19 Billboard "Mainstream Rock songs", September 19, 1981]