Eagles (band)
The Eagles, an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971, spent the 31st of July 1980 promising to beat each other up. The trouble began before the concert in Long Beach, California. Guitarist Don Felder said 'You're welcome - I guess' to the wife of Senator Alan Cranston, just as the senator was thanking the band backstage for playing a benefit for his re-election. Glenn Frey, the band's other guitarist and a lead singer, took offense. Then both men went on stage and played the whole show. Frey recalled Felder telling him near the end of the set, 'Only three more songs until I kick your ass, pal.' Felder remembered Frey making the same promise during 'Best of My Love.' How did a handful of musicians, first hired to back another singer, reach the point where two of them could barely share a stage? What happened to the band's songs and its members once that night was over? And why did the Eagles keep coming back, announcing a farewell tour more than four decades later?
In early 1971, singer Linda Ronstadt and her manager John Boylan recruited Glenn Frey and Don Henley for her band. Henley had come to Los Angeles from Texas with his band Shiloh, to record an album produced by Kenny Rogers. Frey had arrived from Michigan and formed a group called Longbranch Pennywhistle. The two met in 1970 at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and became acquainted through their shared record label, Amos Records.
Two more veterans joined Ronstadt's circle. Randy Meisner had been working in Ricky Nelson's backing band, the Stone Canyon Band. Bernie Leadon had played with the Flying Burrito Brothers. Both joined her summer tour promoting the album Silk Purse.
On that tour, Frey and Henley decided to start a band of their own and told Ronstadt. Frey later credited her with suggesting Leadon and arranging for him to play for her, so the pair could approach him. They also pitched the idea to Meisner, who came aboard. All four played live behind Ronstadt only once, at a July concert at Disneyland. All four also appeared on her self-titled album. Someone later proposed adding JD Souther to the group, but Meisner objected.
In September 1971 the four signed to Asylum Records, a new label started by David Geffen. Jackson Browne had introduced Geffen to Frey. Geffen bought out the contracts Frey and Henley held with Amos Records and sent the group to Aspen, Colorado, to develop as a band. They still had no name. Their first show, in October 1971 at a club called The Gallery in Aspen, was billed as Teen King and the Emergencies.
The name Eagles arrived during a group outing to the Mojave Desert, fueled by peyote and tequila. Accounts disagree about who said it first. Don Felder, who had not yet joined and was not there, credited Leadon, who had read about the Hopis' reverence for the eagle. JD Souther said the idea came when Frey shouted 'Eagles!' at the sight of eagles flying overhead. The comedian Steve Martin, a friend from the band's early days at The Troubadour, writes in his autobiography that he suggested 'the Eagles.' Frey insists the name is simply 'Eagles.'
Geffen and his partner Elliot Roberts managed the band at first. Irving Azoff replaced them while the third album was being recorded, and his name would keep turning up in the band's story.
The debut album, Eagles, was recorded in England in February 1972 with producer Glyn Johns. Johns was impressed by the band's harmony singing. He has been credited with shaping the group into 'the country-rock band with those high-flyin' harmonies.' Released on the 1st of June 1972, the album was a breakthrough success with three Top 40 singles.
The first single, 'Take It Easy,' came from a neighbor. Frey wrote it with the country-folk rocker Jackson Browne. Browne had finished the first verse but stalled after the line 'I'm standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.' Frey completed the second verse, and Browne carried on to finish the song. It reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The bluesy 'Witchy Woman' followed at number 9, and the soft country rock ballad 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' reached number 22. The group also found work as one of the support acts for Yes on their Close to the Edge Tour.
The sound had many roots. Critics have traced it to 1960s rhythm and blues, soul, bluegrass, and rock bands such as the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, and the label 'California rock' stuck. Sal Manna, who wrote the liner notes for the 1994 album Hell Freezes Over, said nobody quite knew what the phrase meant. His best guess was that because anything seemed possible in California, music from there felt more free-spirited and free-ranging. On the early records the group blended rock and roll, country, and folk.
Their second album, Desperado, took Old West outlaws as its theme and compared their lives to those of modern rock stars. During these sessions Henley and Frey began writing together in earnest. They co-wrote eight of the album's eleven songs, including 'Tequila Sunrise' and 'Desperado,' two of the group's best-loved songs. Even so, the album did worse than its predecessor. It peaked at number 41 on the Billboard 200. 'Tequila Sunrise' reached number 61 on the Hot 100, and 'Outlaw Man' reached number 59.
The partnership also changed who was in charge. Everyone had assumed that Leadon and Meisner, as seasoned musicians, would have the most influence. Henley and Frey now began to dominate. For the next record, they wanted to pull the band away from country rock and toward hard rock.
Bill Szymczyk produced most of On the Border, after Glyn Johns turned out to be the wrong fit. Johns tended to emphasize the lush side of the band's double-edged music. After only two usable songs, the Eagles brought in Szymczyk. For the song 'Good Day in Hell,' he wanted a harder-edged guitarist. The band remembered Don Felder, a childhood friend of Leadon's, who had jammed backstage with them in Boston in 1972 when they opened for Yes. At that jam, Frey had nicknamed him 'Fingers,' a name that stuck because of his skill.
In January 1974, Frey called Felder to add slide guitar to 'Good Day in Hell.' The band was so impressed that they invited him to join as the fifth Eagle the next day. He also played on 'Already Gone,' a breakup song, trading a guitar duet with Frey. It reached number 32. The album's cover of Tom Waits's 'Ol' 55' and the single 'James Dean,' which reached number 77, rounded it out. The biggest song was 'Best of My Love.' It reached number one on the 1st of March 1975, the first of five chart-toppers.
On the 6th of April 1974, the Eagles played the California Jam festival in Ontario, California. More than 300,000 fans came to what was billed as 'the Woodstock of the West Coast.' Black Sabbath, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Deep Purple were also on the bill. ABC television showed portions of the performance. Felder missed it because he was called away for the birth of his son, and Jackson Browne filled in on piano and acoustic guitar.
One of These Nights arrived on the 10th of June 1975 and turned the Eagles into international stars. It began a run of four consecutive number-one albums. The title track became their second consecutive chart-topper, and Frey called it his all-time favorite Eagles tune. 'Lyin' Eyes' reached number 2 and won the band its first Grammy. 'Take It to the Limit' reached number 4. Meisner, Henley, and Frey wrote it, and it remains the only Eagles single with Meisner on lead vocals. Rolling Stone put the group on its cover dated the 25th of September 1975. Three days later they played to 55,000 people at Anaheim Stadium alongside Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, and Toots and the Maytals.
The album was also the last for Leadon. He co-wrote 'I Wish You Peace' with his girlfriend, Patti Davis, the daughter of California governor Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan. His instrumental 'Journey of the Sorcerer' later became the theme for the BBC's radio and television versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Leadon was unhappy with the band's drift from country toward rock and roll and with his shrinking creative control. One night Frey was talking excitedly about where the band should go next, and Leadon poured a beer over his head, saying, 'You need to chill out, man!' In December 1975, after months of denials, the band announced Leadon had left.
Joe Walsh took his place. He had been a friend of the band for years and had played with the James Gang and Barnstorm and as a solo artist. Azoff managed him, and Szymczyk produced his records. Henley worried that Walsh was too 'wild' for the Eagles. The early country sound almost disappeared with Leadon gone. Felder, meanwhile, had to take over banjo, pedal steel, and mandolin on tour.
In early 1976 the band released Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), a compilation that became the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States. It has sold 40 million copies there and at least 42 million worldwide. It held the all-time sales record until Michael Jackson's Thriller overtook it after Jackson's death in 2009. In December 1999 the Recording Industry Association of America honored it as the Best Selling Album of the Century.
Hotel California, released on the 8th of December 1976, was the fifth studio album and the first with Walsh. It took a year and a half to finish, and the work, along with touring, drained the band. 'New Kid in Town' became the third number-one single. The title track topped the charts in May 1977 and became the signature song. Henley sang lead, while Felder and Walsh played a guitar duet. Felder, Henley, and Frey wrote it together.
The lyrics are mysterious and have been read in many ways. Rumors even spread in certain quarters that the song was about Satanism. The band dismissed them, and Henley did so again in the documentary History of the Eagles. In 2007 he told 60 Minutes that it is 'basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream and about excess in America, which was something we knew about.'
'Life in the Fast Lane' was the third and final single, reaching number 11. Its hard rock sound established Walsh's place in the group. The album closes with 'The Last Resort,' which Frey once called 'Henley's opus.' Henley described it as 'fairly pedestrian' and 'never fully realized, musically speaking.'
The run-out groove on side two carries the etched words 'V.O.L. Is Five-Piece Live.' They mean that the instrumental track for 'Victim of Love' was recorded live in the studio with no overdubs. Felder wrote most of the music, and in the 2013 documentary he claimed he had been promised the lead vocal. After many unproductive attempts to record him, manager Irving Azoff was told to take Felder out for a meal. While Felder was away, Henley overdubbed his own lead vocal.
The album won Grammys for Record of the Year, for 'Hotel California,' and for vocal arrangement, for 'New Kid in Town.' At the 1978 Grammy Awards it lost Album of the Year to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Rolling Stone placed it at number 37 on its list of the best albums of all time. It sold more than 28 million copies in the United States and more than 32 million worldwide.
The tour that followed took a toll. By June 1977 the Eagles had been on the road for eleven months, and Meisner's stomach ulcers had flared up. In Knoxville he was struggling to reach the high notes of his signature song, 'Take It to the Limit,' and he had the flu. He decided not to sing it as an encore. Frey and Meisner argued about that decision, and the argument became an angry physical confrontation backstage. Meisner left the venue and was frozen out. He played his last show in East Troy, Wisconsin, on the 3rd of September 1977, then returned to Nebraska to be with his family. The band agreed that Timothy B. Schmit, who had also followed Meisner in the group Poco, was the only candidate to replace him.
The Long Run was meant to be a double album, but the band could not write enough songs. It took a year and a half to complete and was released on the 24th of September 1979. Some critics were disappointed that it did not match Hotel California. It topped the charts anyway and sold seven million copies. 'Heartache Tonight' was the band's last single to top the Hot 100, on the 10th of November 1979, and it earned the fourth Grammy. The title track and 'I Can't Tell You Why' both reached number 8. The sessions also produced two Christmas songs, including 'Please Come Home for Christmas,' which reached number 18 in 1978.
The band still owed Elektra Records a live album from the tour. Eagles Live, released in November 1980, was mixed on opposite coasts. Frey had already left and stayed in Los Angeles, while the others worked on their parts in Miami. 'We were fixing three-part harmonies courtesy of Federal Express,' said producer Bill Szymczyk. Frey refused to speak to the other Eagles and fired Irving Azoff as his manager. The liner notes listed five attorneys in the credits and said only 'Thank you and goodnight.' One single came from it, 'Seven Bridges Road.' Steve Young wrote it, and Iain Matthews created the arrangement for his 1973 album Valley Hi. It reached number 21 and was the band's last Top 40 single until 1994.
Elektra initially owned the rights to solo albums by Eagles members. Walsh had already made a name alone in the 1970s, and his 1981 album There Goes the Neighborhood did well. During the 1980s he also played sessions for Dan Fogelberg, Steve Winwood, and others, and he produced and co-wrote Ringo Starr's Old Wave.
Frey had success in the 1980s. His first album, No Fun Aloud, came out in 1982 and produced the number 15 hit 'The One You Love.' 'The Heat Is On,' from the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, reached number 2. So did 'You Belong to the City' in 1985, from the Miami Vice soundtrack, which also carried his song 'Smuggler's Blues.' He appeared in the episode named after it, as a character called Jimmy.
The band's circle also reached into film. Cameron Crowe, a former music writer who had covered Poco and the Eagles, saw his first screenplay become the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Manager Irving Azoff co-produced it. Henley, Walsh, Schmit, and Felder all contributed solo songs to the soundtrack, and the band playing at the dance near the end covers 'Life in the Fast Lane.'
Felder put two songs on the soundtrack to Heavy Metal. Schmit stayed busy. He sang on Crosby, Stills and Nash's Daylight Again when David Crosby's drug overindulgence left the group needing another vocalist. He sang backup on Toto IV, spent 1983-1985 in Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer band, and toured with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band in 1992. Meisner reached the top 40 three times, including with the number 19 'Hearts on Fire' in 1981.
Henley achieved the biggest solo success. 'Leather and Lace,' a 1981 duet with Stevie Nicks, was followed by the 1982 album I Can't Stand Still and its hit 'Dirty Laundry.' Building the Perfect Beast in 1984 included 'The Boys of Summer,' which reached number 5. His 1989 album, The End of the Innocence, was a major success too. A contract dispute with his record company then cut his solo career short. It was settled only when the Eagles reunited in 1994.
Country singer Travis Tritt insisted that the Long Run-era Eagles appear in his video for 'Take It Easy,' and they agreed. The video was for Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, a country tribute album released in 1993, thirteen years after the breakup. Years of public speculation ended the next year when the band formally reunited. Frey, Henley, Walsh, Felder, and Schmit were joined on stage by several extra musicians, including Scott Crago on drums.
'For the record, we never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation,' Frey said at their first live performance in April 1994. It was one of two shows recorded for a live album and an MTV special, both titled Hell Freezes Over. The title came from Henley's repeated statement that the group would get back together 'when hell freezes over.' The album debuted at number 1 and sold six million copies in the United States. It included four new studio songs, and both 'Get Over It' and 'Love Will Keep Us Alive' became Top 40 hits. A tour began in 1994 and was interrupted in September by a serious recurrence of Frey's diverticulitis. It resumed in 1995 and continued into 1996.
In 1998 the Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All seven men who had been Eagles played together for two songs, 'Take It Easy' and 'Hotel California.' Several reunion tours followed, without Leadon or Meisner, and they became famous for record-setting ticket prices.
The band played at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on the 28th and the 29th of December 1999, then at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on the 31st. These were the last concerts Felder played with the band. The recordings appeared in the four-disc box set Selected Works: 1972-1999 in November 2000.
On the 6th of February 2001, Felder was fired. He filed two lawsuits against the corporation Eagles, Ltd., Henley, and Frey, alleging wrongful termination and breach of contract, and reportedly sought $50 million. He claimed that after the 1994 tour, Henley and Frey had insisted on a larger percentage of the profits. The money had previously been split in five equal portions. He said they pressured him into an agreement giving them three times as much from Selected Works. Their attorney, Daniel M. Petrocelli, answered that the two men felt Felder should no longer be part of the band, and 'This has been happening with rock 'n' roll bands since day one.' Henley and Frey countersued, alleging that Felder had written a 'tell-all' book, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001). A Los Angeles court combined the cases, and the matter was dismissed on the 8th of May 2007 after a settlement for an undisclosed amount.
A new studio album followed. Long Road Out of Eden, released on the 30th of October 2007, was the first all-new material since 1979. For its first year it was sold in the United States only on the band's website and at Walmart and Sam's Club. It debuted at number 1 in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Norway. 'How Long,' written by JD Souther, won the fifth Grammy in 2008. The band had played it in the early to mid-1970s but never recorded it, because Souther wanted to save it for his own solo album. Henley told CNN, 'This is probably the last Eagles album that we'll ever make.'
The Long Road Out of Eden Tour opened at The O2 Arena in London on the 20th of March 2008. Its American leg ended at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah, on the 9th of May 2009, the first concert ever held there. The final European date was in Lisbon on the 22nd of July 2009. In November 2010, asked about another album, Schmit said, 'My first reaction would be: no way. But I said that before the last one, so you never really know.'
In February 2013 the band released a career-spanning documentary, History of the Eagles, and began a tour that ran until July 2015. Henley said it 'could very well be our last.' Bernie Leadon joined the shows, and Walsh said he was looking forward to finally playing with him. Meisner was invited but could not take part for health reasons. Felder was never asked. Henley claimed Felder still engaged in legal action against the band, though he did not say what kind.
The Eagles had been chosen for the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, but the award was deferred a year because of Glenn Frey's health. On the 18th of January 2016, Frey died at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City at the age of 67. The causes were rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis, and pneumonia while recovering from intestinal surgery. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the Eagles, joined by Leadon, touring guitarist Steuart Smith, and Jackson Browne, played 'Take It Easy' in his honor. Henley said afterward that he did not think the band would play again.
He was wrong. In July 2017 the Eagles headlined the Classic West and Classic East concerts, organized by Azoff. Frey's son Deacon sang in his father's place, alongside country musician Vince Gill. Bob Seger joined them at Classic West to sing 'Heartache Tonight,' which he co-wrote. In autumn 2017 came their only studio recording without Frey, a cover of Dan Fogelberg's 'Part of the Plan.' Henley's son Will joined the touring band as a guitarist in 2018.
In September and October 2019, they played Hotel California in its entirety at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with a 46-piece orchestra and a 22-voice choir. The tour built from that was cut off by the COVID-19 pandemic after ten shows in early 2020. It resumed in 2021. In April 2022 Deacon Frey left to pursue a solo career, though he guested with the band several times and rejoined in 2023.
On the 6th of July 2023, the Eagles announced their farewell tour, The Long Goodbye, starting on the 7th of September at Madison Square Garden. On the 26th of July, Randy Meisner died at the age of 77 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Only Henley and Leadon remained of the original members. The band called Meisner 'an integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band.'
In September 2024 the Eagles began a residency at Sphere in the Las Vegas Valley. The first eight concerts grossed $42.2 million from 131,000 tickets sold. In 2025 Chris Holt replaced touring lead guitarist Steuart Smith, who retired because of Parkinson's disease. By then the band had five number-one singles, six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards, and more than 200 million records sold worldwide, 100 million of them in the United States. Rolling Stone had ranked them number 75 on its 2010 list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
In February 2026, Henley said the Eagles would disband at the end of the tour scheduled through May 2026. 'And I've said things like that before, but I feel like we're getting toward the end,' he said. 'And that will be fine too.'
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Who were the founding members of the Eagles band?
The founding members of the Eagles were Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. Linda Ronstadt and her manager John Boylan had recruited them for her band, and all four played on her self-titled album.
When and where were the Eagles formed?
The Eagles formed in Los Angeles in 1971. The four founders signed to Asylum Records in September 1971 and played their first show in October 1971 in Aspen, Colorado, as Teen King and the Emergencies.
How did the Eagles get their name?
Accounts of the Eagles' name differ. One version credits Bernie Leadon, who had read about the Hopis' reverence for the eagle, and another says Glenn Frey shouted 'Eagles!' when the band saw eagles flying above in the Mojave Desert.
What is the best-selling Eagles album?
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is the best-selling Eagles album, with 40 million copies sold in the United States. Hotel California is the best-selling studio album, with more than 28 million copies sold in the United States.
Why did the Eagles break up in 1980?
The Eagles broke up in 1980 after years of strain and open hostility between members, including a feud between Don Felder and Glenn Frey at a Long Beach concert on the 31st of July 1980. The live album Eagles Live was mixed on opposite coasts because Frey would not speak to the others.
Why is the Eagles album called Hell Freezes Over?
Hell Freezes Over is named for Don Henley's repeated statement that the Eagles would get back together when hell freezes over. The band reunited in 1994 and the album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard album chart.
Why was Don Felder fired from the Eagles?
Don Felder was fired from the Eagles on the 6th of February 2001. The band's attorney said Don Henley and Glenn Frey felt Felder should no longer be part of the group, and Felder's lawsuits were settled out of court in 2007.
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- 114Past Winners And NomineesCountry Music Association Awards
- 115NewsEagles hits album named best-selling of centuryCNN — December 8, 1999
- 1162001 InducteeVocal Group Hall of Fame
- 118EaglesNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
- 119BookTo the Limit: The Untold Story of the EaglesMarc Eliot — Da Capo Press — 2004
- 120BookHeaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974–2001)Don Felder et al. — Wiley & Sons — 2008
- 121BookBorn Standing Up: A Comic's LifeSteve Martin — Scribner — 2007