Lake Shore Drive is the third album by Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

-based rock

Rock music

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 group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah

Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah

Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah was an American rock group from the early 1970s.This West Allis, Wisconsin trio was originally composed of bassist Mitch Aliotta, drummer Ted Aliotta, and guitarist Skip Haynes. Ted left after their debut album to be replaced by pianist John Jeremiah...

, released in 1971.

The title track of the same name

Lake Shore Drive (song)

Lake Shore Drive is a song written by Chicago-based rock group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah released on their 1971 album of the same name. This song was an homage to the famed lakefront highway in Chicago of the same name. The song also uses the initials of the highway, "LSD," to evoke an double...

 pays homage to the Chicago boulevard Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive is a mostly freeway-standard expressway running parallel with and alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan through Chicago, Illinois, USA. Except for the portion north of Foster Avenue , Lake Shore Drive is designated as part of U.S...

, which extends between the downtown area of Chicago and Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

 for approximately 16 miles. Outside of the Chicago area, the song was generally interpreted as a reference to the drug LSD

LSD

Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...

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List of Tracks

Side A

1. Lake Shore Drive
   Lake Shore Drive (song)
   Lake Shore Drive is a song written by Chicago-based rock group Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah released on their 1971 album of the same name. This song was an homage to the famed lakefront highway in Chicago of the same name. The song also uses the initials of the highway, "LSD," to evoke an double...
   
   (3:50)
2. For Eddie (3:39)
3. Long Time Gone (5:46)
4. Uppers and Downers (3:14)

Side B

1. Snow Queen (4:28)
2. Leaving Chicago A.M.F. (5:54)
3. One Night Stand (3:30)
4. Last of the Night People (3:45)