Life Is a Highway
| "Life Is a Highway" | ||||
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European CD and 7-inch artwork | ||||
| Single by Tom Cochrane | ||||
| from the album Mad Mad World | ||||
| B-side | "Emotional Truth" | |||
| Released | September 20, 1991 | |||
| Genre | Country rock | |||
| Length | 4:26 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Songwriter | Tom Cochrane | |||
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| Alternative cover | ||||
UK CD and 7-inch artwork | ||||
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| "Life Is a Highway" on YouTube | ||||
"Life Is a Highway" is a song by Canadian musician Tom Cochrane from his second studio album, Mad Mad World (1991). Released in September 1991, by Capitol Records, the single became a number-one hit in Canada in late 1991. "Life Is a Highway" also peaked at number six on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100 in August 1992 and reached the top two in Australia and New Zealand the same year. The accompanying music video was directed by David Storey. The song was covered by Chris LeDoux for his 1998 album One Road Man and Rascal Flatts in 2006 for the Cars soundtrack.
In 2016 a 322-kilometre section of Manitoba Provincial Road 391 was designated "Tom Cochrane's Life Is a Highway" in honour of the singer, born near that highway, and the song.