The intensity of that quest took its toll. She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. “I would see that the Stones were still together even though there was a lot of publicity about Mick and Keith having a lot of problems. On the night of July 29, 2015, Leadon and Frey huddled together offstage in Bossier City, La., as the crowd cheered. The band's lineup was that of the Long Run era: Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit. Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston, Texas.He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders, came to light after Henley … “He gave me a big, huge thanks for participating,” remembers Leadon. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP), Henley, left, and Frey perform during the CMA Awards on Nov. 7, 2007. The last time Henley saw Frey was in the hospital. He’s an absolutely ball-busting sergeant, and he demanded the same thing of himself.”. Over time, the band sold more than 150 million albums and filled arenas from Cleveland to China. “What we found in common is we could all afford an acoustic guitar, we could find a piano somewhere, and we could sit down and make music without a big rig and a lot of money going out. Frey told his friend Bob Seger that he was working on a play. “He jumped in and he wrote that second verse, and he got ‘Lord,’ ‘Ford,’ ‘girl’ and ‘bed’ into one line.”. Elliot Scheiner – production (all tracks except "Learn to Be Still"), Stan Lynch – production ("Learn to Be Still" only), Charlie Bouis, Carl Glanville, Barry Goldberg, Andy Grassi, Tom Trafalski, Tom Winslow – second engineers, Rob Jacobs, Dave Kob, Dave Reynolds, Elliot Scheiner – mixing, David Hewitt – live recording coordinator, John Halpern, David Skernick – photography, Robin Sloane, Janet Wolsborn – art direction, Dwaine "The Peachin' Trucker" Wise – road manager, This page was last edited on 3 February 2021, at 22:29. Don Henley called Frey "the glue" of the band - a business-minded taskmaster who steered them towards commercial success. They had JD Souther sing, and he’s an incredible singer these days. “I don’t think the family or I could say for sure that it was the years of having rheumatoid arthritis vs. the change in the drug that caused the pneumonia.”. The album went to No. There was chatter about playing the entire “Hotel California” record live. He paused and then praised Deacon and referenced the idea of playing again with Browne. Now he must cope with contentment. “He would have to tape his hands up like a football player,” says Henley. And of course, everybody in the room said, ‘This could happen again.’ ”, Earlier this year, a reporter at the Montreal Gazette asked Henley if he imagined a future for the Eagles. Cindy Frey will be given her late husband’s medallion. I knew what those fingers used to look like.”, “He was taking some really strong drugs to keep it under control,” Souther says, “but he’s tough. LINCOLN, Mass. They had me sing a song. He got sick and flew home for treatment. The way he describes it, the group he helped lead since 1971 died with his longtime musical partner, Glenn Frey. The way he describes it, the group he helped lead since 1971 died with his longtime musical partner, Glenn Frey. There was no talk of anything ending when the Eagles wrapped their “History” tour. (Doug Pizac/AP), From left, Timothy B. Schmit, Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh of the Eagles pose for a photo after a news conference in Park City, Utah in 2013. Walsh, an explosive player known for destroying hotel rooms, and guitarist Don Felder, nicknamed “Fingers,” allowed the group to shift effortlessly from soft rock to the electric funk of “Life in the Fast Lane.” Now they just had to get along. “Everybody was in complete shock,” says John Boylan. He actually coincidentally met up with an active serial killer who started using Henley to recruit other victims, and eventually Henley started participating in the murders himself. In a 1995 interview, Don Henley said the song “sort of captured the zeitgeist of the time, which was a time of great excess in this country and in … The tour began on May 27, and the Hell Freezes Over album was released on November 8, 1994. He and his wife, Sharon, sat by Frey’s bed with his wife, Cindy. In 1975, worn out from the road, Leadon dumped a beer over Frey’s head and quit. And Felder found himself at odds with Frey and Henley, still smarting when they refused to let him sing lead on a song he had brought them, eventually recorded as “Victim of Love.”, The tensions could not be hidden. The album was also released as a DTS CD in 1997. “I think enough time had gone by, and Irving had talked to everybody one on one. Reporter covering movies, museums, comedy, music and pop culture, Taping up his hands like a football player, (Cristiano Siqueira for The Washington Post), Jackson Browne and the Eagles perform a tribute to Glenn Frey during the 58th Grammy Awards on Feb. 15. I mean, one of the big things was how in the world are we going to top ‘Hotel California’?”, “The Long Run” took almost two years to finish. He sits inside the Tudor mansion in Lincoln that serves as the headquarters for the Walden Woods Project. They were older now, long past late-night parties. Frey headed to Hawaii with his family. Leadon discovered that when he rejoined the group for the “History” tour in 2013. “Quite frankly,” says Souther, “the thing we don’t hear often enough is that I think they really missed each other’s company and this thing they knew they could do probably better than just about anybody.”. Frey picked it up, turning “Take It Easy” into a joyous anthem of youthful searching. That week, Henley, Walsh and Schmit also performed at a private memorial with several guest singers, including Glenn’s son, Deacon. Dave Coombes, 38, has organised Join the Dance, One Love United and wants others to join him in dancing for 14 minutes at 2pm on Sunday, Valentine’s Day. Add to Cart. An argument between Frey and Felder spilled onto the stage, captured on tape and included in the surprisingly bare 2013 documentary “History of the Eagles.”, “I’m gonna f---in’ kill you,” Frey taunted Felder at one point. But Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. is definitely a weird case, even in comparison to other serial killers. The album name is in reference to a quote by Don Henley after the band's breakup in 1980. Henley was asked in an interview about when the band would play together again, to which he responded "when Hell freezes over". That’s been discussed, but Azoff, in talks with Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, has said that only Frey, Henley, Schmit and Walsh should receive medallions. Henley, Frey, Felder, Schmit and Walsh came together for a video shoot of Travis Tritt’s cover of “Take It Easy.”, “That’s the first time we had all been in a room together for a while, but I don’t think that precipitated the reunion,” Henley says. The four new studio recordings are the last to feature Don Felder, who was fired from the band in 2001. “They could have no trouble playing and singing those songs with guests. He is also the host of "Edge of Fame," a podcast co-produced by WBUR Boston. (Mario Suriani/AP), Frey speaks at the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The band members performed live for the first time in April 1994 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California for an MTV special. He brought a stationary recumbent bicycle with him on the road. The late Glenn Frey penned the lyrics for the hit song along with band members Don Henley and Don ... Henley said in a 2002 interview with "60 Minutes." But Souther says there is a reason they stood out. 1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. Frey, a long-haired Detroit kid raised on Motown, and Henley, a shy Texan who had studied English literature in college, took a $250-a-week gig supporting the barefoot country rock queen. 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(Mario Anzuoni/Reuters), California Gov. His rheumatoid arthritis grew worse over the years. He recounts a telling exchange with Henley before the Grammy tribute. — The Eagles are finished. That’s what it finally came down to. “Ambitious and talented as hell and just driven. Then his medication was changed. At a large, private memorial service in February, Henley read a eulogy that took him almost a month to compose. [5][6], The album name is in reference to a quote by Don Henley after the band's breakup in 1980. Henley was asked in an interview about when the band would play together again, to which he responded "when Hell freezes over". Those who watched the pair have differing views of the dynamic. Discover new music on MTV. “I can’t wait.”. The album has sold over 9 million copies in the United States. He flew here for this interview, a reminder of how he has always separated what is public — being in one of America’s most popular bands — from the private — his life as a husband and father in Texas. You wouldn’t know it from what Frey said next. “It would just seem like greed or something,” says Henley. The album is the first to be released after the Eagles had reformed following a fourteen-year-long break up. The Kennedy Center actually chose the Eagles for the award last year, but the band deferred in hopes that Frey would get better. Schmit arrived from Poco. We didn’t realize it, we didn’t really think about it.”. By the end of 1977, Leadon was gone, as was Meisner. On a summer night in 1980, the Eagles played a concert for then-Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.). “I watched his hands, his fingers, became bigger and more gnarled and stiff. [8] The album is the band's second live album, after their live album in 1980. He admits he wishes that Henley would reconsider. This should have been a time to celebrate. In moving detail, he talked about their 45-year relationship. Doctors talked to him about removing part or all of his intestine. (Karin Vismara/AP), The Eagles reunited for their “Hell Freezes Over” tour in 1994. Al Pacino was nearly fired from ‘The Godfather.’ The rest is history. Compiled from Hell Freezes Over liner notes.[9]. After a few months, Frey asked Henley to form a band. The song landed the country rock sound, already developed but rarely on the radio, on the charts. In 1994, the Eagles got back together for the “Hell Freezes Over” tour. “We went through seven weeks of rehearsals before the tour, and then each day we did a sound check and a mini-rehearsal on things that Glenn thought needed to be gone over from a previous show,” Leadon says. Don Henley is direct. At one point during the interview at Walden, he spoke of the shift that occurs from working so intensely with one person. “Because he nailed it. It also features an acoustic version of "Hotel California". Waffle Henley Tee Long Sleeves Size: 92 Eu 60% Cotton, 40% Polyester Share. During their 1970s run, the Eagles became famous for not only the music — “Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)” is the best-selling album of the 20th century in the United States — but also their notorious backstage parties, the self-described “third encore.” Fewer people saw the less glamorous side, the process that led to all those hits, peaking with 1976’s masterpiece, “Hotel California.” The Eagles did it through hard work and a stable of writers competing for limited space and by being unwilling to settle for a sloppy take when another run-through might bring perfection. Henley also said in 1982 on the break-up: "I just rule out the possibility of putting the Eagles back together for a Lost Youth and Greed tour". Whether you're glamming up for a night out with the girls, scrubbing up for that interview or dressing down for a cosy night in, Tommy Hilfiger will be with you every step of the way. This would be the group’s last real gig. He was 67. The Eagles weren’t the first to apply four-part harmonies to country rock or twangy pulls to their power chords. “None of those other bands had consistently the kind of material that the Eagles had,” he says. The taped presentation will be broadcast Dec. 27 at 9 p.m. on CBS. He got the pneumonia that would kill him. They started out backing Linda Ronstadt. Browne described Henley and Frey differently. However they felt about each other, Frey and Henley did not re-form the Eagles to sloppily play though their old hits. It took him 14 years to get the Eagles back together the first time. They also reinvented themselves more than once. Henley wouldn’t even go to dinner after a gig, preferring to retire to his hotel room to rest his voice. There’s a lot of courage and tenacity in this guy. Frey was in a coma, and he didn’t regain consciousness. “Then he said, ‘It’s been really awesome to have you back out there. Henley founded the nonprofit organization in 1990 to protect the land that inspired 19th-century transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. That may be the last time they play together. “In addition, every show was recorded at the mixing console, and Glenn would often say, ‘I went in and listened to this and we need to go over the vocals on this particular song.’ ”. “I guess it’s the moment in the song where Glenn puts himself in the street,” Browne says. It also came from capturing a feeling, no more so than in their first single, “Take It Easy.” The song emerged in 1971 when Browne, renting a room below Frey, found himself stuck on the second verse. Before the album was released, the Eagles also started a tour, which would last from 1994 to 1996 and became one of the most successful tours in music history. Randy was a solid bass player and a great high harmony singer and great lead singer, too. The DVD has since been re-released with an additional Dolby Digital soundtrack. “And that came from hours and hours of work.”. “You know all their little tics and their eccentricities and their peccadillos and everything about them so well that they become predictable and you know their weak points and their strong points, and after a while it starts to grate on you,” he says. They would continue to play live, even after firing Felder in 2001 — a dispute that led to lawsuits, resentment and the guitarist writing a tell-all memoir. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Then the remaining Eagles played one of Frey’s signature songs, “Peaceful Easy Feeling.” Deacon Frey sang and strummed an acoustic guitar. He realized that we were still a big deal, that we were still popular. Jackson Browne stood in for Frey on “Take It Easy,” a song Browne co-wrote. But she doesn’t act like one. Azoff has heard these questions before. (Chris Pizzello/AP), Musician Glenn Frey in 1985. “Glenn was the driving force,” remembers John Boylan, Ronstadt’s longtime manager. The Eagles are finished. “This is a great band even if it went on without Glenn,” he says. A new song "Get Over It" became a modest hit and another new song, "Love Will Keep Us Alive", reached No. Three years later, he had better luck. By inserting just a handful of key references, Frey crafted a blueprint you can trace straight to Jason Aldean. Don Henley is direct. “Young people coming up in music pull against the existing norms,” says singer JD Souther, who helped write a slew of Eagles hits. One of the great people in our business.”. On the third Monday of January, he died. “Powerful drugs suppress your immune system,” Azoff says. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. “I think Henley was the guy that came up with the words ‘when hell freezes over,’” he says and pauses. “I would say struggling is a good word,” Walsh says. We will never know how well the Eagles’ leaders got along in later years. Frey recruited Poco’s bassist, Randy Meisner, and Leadon, a masterful string player who had backed Gram Parsons in the Flying Burrito Brothers. What makes Henley so bizarre is that he wasn't a natural-born killer. “I think that they figured out how to come back together and work, but I don’t think they ever quite achieved the same kind of bond that they had in their youth,” he says. All new songs were released as studio recordings on the album, but can be seen live on the VHS and DVD versions. He's the author of "Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever." I didn’t say this to them because they all seem resolute in saying, ‘Well, that would be wrong,’ but I see how the band could go forward without Glenn.”. The way he describes it, the group he helped lead since 1971 died with his longtime musical partner Glenn Frey. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. The Cranston gig marked the last time the Eagles would play together for 14 years. Background. The Eagles have battled critics, conventions and each other, but they’ve never seemed desperate. He’s in good health but admits drumming has left him with tingling in one hand from nerve damage and a shotgun punch in his left ear whenever he whacks a snare. Felder, who declined interview requests, urged fans on Facebook to sign a petition demanding the Eagles add him, Meisner and Leadon to the Kennedy Center Honors. Like they had Bob Seger play at the memorial. Browne talked of what he heard at Frey’s memorial. Doctors induced a coma from which he never recovered. And it sounded pure.”. By then, drugs were flowing, and lyrics were not. “I always thought about the Rolling Stones when we were apart,” says Schmit. “We were all struggling to keep doing what we were doing and more things were expected of us. Critical acclaim, artistic success and financial success,’ ” says Bernie Leadon, the group’s first guitarist, “It wasn’t like we want to make a pretty good album so our girlfriends like us. [8] The former Eagles band members agreed, and it would be the first time the group had appeared together in 13 years. Henley, an intellectual, thinker, tremendous singer, and really good drummer. “When this band started, we said, ‘We want it all. [4], Hell Freezes Over was also released in video form on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD. When Frey met his doctor in Los Angeles last year, he learned he had ulcerative colitis, Azoff says.

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