The Eagles

The Eagles are one of the most successful country/rock bands in history, having sold over 80 Million albums throughout their career. Originally formed as the backing band for singer Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles decided to go out on their own and eventually signed with David Geffen's newly created Asylum Records. The original band was made up of Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner. Their self-titled debut album, released in 1972, produced the band's first hit song Take it Easy, as well as the songs Witchy Woman and Peaceful Easy Feeling. All three songs were Top 40 singles, with Witchy Woman topping out at #9.

The Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, and have, over their career, won 6 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year in 1977 for Hotel California.

• Glenn Frey - Guitar/Vocals
• Don Henley - Drums/Vocals
• Joe Walsh - Guitar/Vocals
• Timothy B. Schmit - Bass

The Eagles second studio album was named Desperado. Themed on the Old West, the band hoped to draw a parallel between the lives of modern rock stars and the outlaws cowboys of years gone by. The album also saw a major shift in the interplay between the band members. Don Henley and Glenn Frey began writing songs with each other, accounting for 8 of the 11 songs on the album, and overshadowing the contributions of Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner. While the album didn't achieve the same kind of success that The Eagles would come to expect, it produced two of their most popular songs in Tequila Sunrise and Desperado, and established the duo that would produce most of the band's future hits.

Track List:

1. "Doolin-Dalton" (Frey, J.D. Souther, Henley, Jackson Browne) – 3:26
2. "Twenty-One" (Leadon) – 2:11
3. "Out of Control" (Henley, Frey, Tom Nexon) – 3:04
4. "Tequila Sunrise" (Henley, Frey) – 2:52
5. "Desperado" (Henley, Frey) – 3:36
6. "Certain Kind of Fool" (Meisner, Henley, Frey) – 3:02
7. "Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)" (Frey, Souther, Henley, Browne) – 0:48
8. "Outlaw Man" (David Blue) – 3:34
9. "Saturday Night" (Meisner, Henley, Frey, Leadon) – 3:20
10. "Bitter Creek" (Leadon) – 5:00
11. "Doolin-Dalton / Desperado (Reprise)" (Frey, Souther, Henley, Browne) – 4:50

In December of 1976, The Eagles release Hotel California. The title track would hit #1 on the Billboard on May 7, 1977. The album also contained a number of other hit songs. Among them Life in the Fast Lane caught on, and confirmed Joe Walsh's place in the band, and his hard rock sound. The album would go on to sell over 16 million copies in the United States, and is considered by some to be the best album ever recorded.

Upon completion of the Hotel California tour, Randy Meisner took his leave of The Eagles, and left to began a solo career. Timothy B. Schmit returned to the Eagles as his replacement, and remains with them today.

Track List:

1. "Hotel California" (Felder, Henley, Frey) – 6:30
2. "New Kid in Town" (J.D. Souther, Henley, Frey) – 5:03
3. "Life in the Fast Lane" (Walsh, Henley, Frey) – 4:46
4. "Wasted Time" (Henley, Frey) – 4:55
5. "Wasted Time (Reprise)" (instrumental) (Henley, Frey, Jim Ed Norman) – 1:22
6. "Victim of Love" (Felder, Souther, Henley, Frey) – 4:11
7. "Pretty Maids All in a Row" (Walsh, Joe Vitale) – 3:58
8. "Try and Love Again" (Meisner) – 5:10
9. "The Last Resort" (Henley, Frey) – 7:28

After breaking up in 1980, some of the members of The Eagles went on to have successful solo careers. Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey all recorded successful solo albums and continued to record and perform until the Eagles reunion in 1994.

After a 14 year hiatus, the original members of the band reunited for a reunion tour, which they then released as an album titled Hell Freezes Over. The tour and album name originated with a quote attributed to Don Henley. Back in 1980, as the band broke up and went their own ways, he said they would next play together when "Hell Freezes Over". Well it did, and the tour and album were major successes; the tour lasted three year, and sales in the United States reached over 6 million. The album would include a mix a old and new songs, two of which, Get Over It and Love Will Keep Us Alive became Top 40 hits.

Track List:

1. "Get Over It"* (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) - 3:31
2. "Love Will Keep Us Alive"* (Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack) - 4:03
3. "The Girl from Yesterday"* (Frey, Jack Tempchin) - 3:23
4. "Learn to Be Still"* (Henley, Stan Lynch) - 4:28
5. "Tequila Sunrise" (Henley, Frey) - 3:28
6. "Hotel California" (Don Felder, Henley, Frey) - 7:12
7. "Wasted Time" (Henley, Frey) - 5:19
8. "Pretty Maids All in a Row" (Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale) - 4:26
9. "I Can't Tell You Why" (Henley, Frey, Schmit) - 5:11
10. "New York Minute" (Henley, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, Jai Winding) - 6:37
11. "The Last Resort" (Henley, Frey) - 7:24
12. "Take It Easy" (Jackson Browne, Frey) - 4:36
13. "In the City" (Walsh, Barry De Vorzon) - 4:07
14. "Life in the Fast Lane" (Henley, Frey, Walsh) - 6:01
15. "Desperado" (Henley, Frey) - 4:17

In 2008, The Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, which was their first new album or original material since 1979. It was their seventh studio album, and took nearly six years to complete. The album won them a 2009 Grammy for Best Instrumental Pop Performance. Sadly for Eagles fans, Don Henley is quoted by CNN as saying "This is probably the last Eagles album that we'll ever make"http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/16/don.henley/index.html#cnnSTCText.

Sales of the album were brisk, selling over 700,000 copies in the first week, and it was the best selling country album of 2007, selling over 2.5 million copies in the United Stateshttp://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071212005937&newsLang=en. Worldwide, sales reached 3.5 million. Despite the impressive sales, it's no where close to the sales of their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 album, which sold over 29 million copies.

In support of the Long Road Out of Eden, The Eagles launched an international tour. On March 20, 2008, The Eagles played at the O2 Arena in London. The tour continued into 2010, taking them across Europe and North America. In March of 2010, The Eagles announced a 2010 Summer Tour with the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urbanhttp://www.eaglesband.com/index.php.

Track List:

1. "No More Walks in the Wood" (Don Henley, Steuart Smith, John Hollander) - 2:00
2. "How Long" (J. D. Souther) - 3:13
3. "Busy Being Fabulous" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) - 4:19
4. "What Do I Do with My Heart" (Henley, Frey) - 3:54
5. "Guilty of the Crime" (Frankie Miller, Jerry Lynn Williams) - 3:43
6. "I Don't Want To Hear Any More" (Paul Carrack) - 4:21
7. "Waiting in the Weeds" (Henley, Smith) - 7:45
8. "No More Cloudy Days" (Frey) - 4:02
9. "Fast Company" (Henley, Frey) - 4:00
10. "Do Something" (Henley, Smith, Timothy B. Schmit) - 5:12
11. "You Are Not Alone" (Frey) - 2:22

Disk Two:

1. "Long Road out of Eden" (Henley, Frey, Schmit) - 10:17
2. "I Dreamed There Was No War" (Frey) - 1:38
3. "Somebody" (Jack Tempchin, John Brannen) - 4:09
4. "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture" (Henley, Frey) - 5:46
5. "Last Good Time in Town" (Joe Walsh) - 7:07
6. "I Love to Watch a Woman Dance" (Larry John McNally) - 3:16
7. "Business as Usual" (Henley, Smith) - 5:31
8. "Center of the Universe" (Henley, Frey, Smith) - 3:42
9. "It's Your World Now" (Frey, Tempchin) - 4:22