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Review by David Rensin, Phonograph Record, June 1973
THE BACK COVER photo may depict the Eagles as dead losers, but with DESPERADO it is clear that nothing is further from the truth. ...
The Eagles: Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, August 1994
THE BEST – AND CERTAINLY MOST SUCCINCT – REVIEW OF this, the opening night of the reunited Eagles' concert tour, came midway through guitarist Joe ...
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Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages Audio, April 1977
In order of speaking voices, Messrs. Meisner, Frey, Henley, Walsh and Felder (in London for the UK leg of their Hotel California tour) provide the lowdown on their individual backgrounds. Then Don 'n' Glenn offer a detailed history of the band from its formation to Hotel California itself — the albums, the people, the songs and more.
File format: mp3; file size: 80.7mb, interview length: 1h 24' 00" sound quality: *****
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Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 22 June 1972
THE EAGLES' 'Take It Easy' is simply the best sounding rock single to come out so far this year. The first time through, you could ...
The Eagles: The Eagles (Asylum)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, September 1972
EVER SINCE some unwitting fool made the mistake of pointing out that much of the rock and roll musician evolved from the hillbilly, we've been ...
The Eagles/Linda Ronstadt: Los Angeles
Live Review by David Rensin, Music World, January 1973
PERHAPS IT was the atmosphere of a college campus where the audience is usually reasonably intelligent and not prone to yelling "boogie" or "rock and ...
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 10 March 1973
THE EAGLES, who have got more mileage out of their debut album than most bands can reasonably expect, are set to make their first live ...
Profile and Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 10 March 1973
IN A COMFORTABLE Chelsea flat, Texan Glenn Frey is looking a bit depressed as he sits surrounded by a pile of the latest rock albums ...
The Eagles: Desperado (Asylum)
Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 10 May 1973
IF THEY gave a Grammy for the best interior gatefold cover, this one should be nominated. It is the best since For The Roses, but ...
The Eagles: Desperado (Asylum)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 May 1973
IT IS ARGUABLE that the test of a fine example of any genre is to consider the extent to which it transcends its category. Our ...
The Eagles: Capitol Theater, Passaic NJ
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 14 May 1974
EAGLES SERVE ROCK WITH COUNTRY FLAIR ...
The Eagles, Neil Young: Luesta College, San Luis Obispo CA
Live Review by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974
Punch Card Pop ...
Various Artists: California Jam Festival: Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario CA
Live Review by David Rensin, Zoo World, 23 May 1974
"Bastion Of Ennui" nets record gate. ...
Sarah Kernochan: House of Pain; Tom Waits: Closing Time; Eagles: On The Border
Review by j. poet, The Berkeley Barb, 7 June 1974
j poet moans: step on me i like it ...
The Eagles Have Stopped Takin' It Easy
Report and Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, July 1974
With a new lead guitarist, a new producer, a hit and a series of almosts, the Eagles step out on the border... ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Hit Parader, January 1975
IF YOU thought blue jeans and sneakers went out with the sixties, better check out the Eagles. Raised on a steady diet of wonder bread ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 12 April 1975
HOLLYWOOD: On a clear day Glenn Frey can see from his living room right out to sea, right across the Pacific to Catalina, the island ...
The Eagles, Dan Fogelberg: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Toby Goldstein, Billboard, 31 May 1975
PERFORMING AT the first of two sold-out shows May 16, the Eagles demonstrated that a band of considerable musical expertise resides behind its string of ...
The Eagles: One Of These Nights (Asylum)
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, June 1975
The Eagles’ new fourth album is at once the most musically adventurous and the most consistent work yet from this latter-day classic LA band. ...
The Eagles: California Dreamin’
Interview by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, June 1975
"I WANT TO SLEEP with you in some chocolate tonight," Glenn Frey sings in impromptu addition to the lyric of ‘Peaceful Easy Feelin’, and the ...
The Beach Boys and The Eagles at Wembley Stadium
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 June 1975
"HI, WE'RE THE Eagles from Los Angeles." Well that was a fact as predictable as the set those five gentleman dished up, a kind of ...
Eagles Fly High with Disco 'Nights'
Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 28 August 1975
"WE LIKE TO be a nice little country-rock band from Los Angeles... about half the time," Eagles drummer Don Henley claimed backstage after the band's ...
The Eagles: One Of These NIghts
Review by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, September 1975
I CAN'T THINK of anything good to say about One Of These Nights. What's so distressing is that it's not a bad album by any ...
Eagles: The Earthpeople's Band
Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 27 September 1975
They say they play real music for real people. Sounds dull. But the Eagles do it with a kind of magic that has made them ...
Fishing With The Eagles For the Universal Trout
Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, December 1975
THINGS ARE SO MELLOW on Jim Guercio's Caribou Ranch, those 3,200 acres of secluded headland lying right outside Denver, that even the birds seem to ...
The Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (Asylum) ****
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 28 February 1976
MORE THAN other greatest hits collections, this album signifies the end of an era for the Eagles. With the departure of Bernie Leadon and the ...
The Eagles: Desperados in Blue Jeans and Sneakers
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 27 March 1976
EXACTLY TWO years ago a very hazy Los Angeles sun shone dimly through the polluted clouds onto the suburban racetrack that housed the California Jam. ...
Profile by David Hancock, Record Mirror, 10 April 1976
THE EAGLE, sorry, the bald-headed eagle, is America's national symbol. Carrying an olive branch and a sheath of arrows it sums up all that is ...
The Eagles: The Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 14 August 1976
SPECTRUM, Philadelphia: You can't get much more Los Angelean than the Eagles. Right down to the faded jeans and slightly wrinkled tee-shirts, the fuzzy moustaches ...
How The Eagles Cleaned Up the Wild West
Comment by Lester Bangs, Music Gig, October 1976
I HAVE A FRIEND who is the most depersonalized individual I know – her love life is all mixed up, she's running simultaneous scams on ...
Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum K5 3051)*****
Review by Tim Lott, Sounds, 11 December 1976
Eagles: back in the fast lane ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976
WHAT'S it like, I asked, being an Eagle? Glenn Frey, a perpetual talker, paused to consider the question and the silence lasted almost a minute. ...
The Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum)
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 11 December 1976
Don Henley (drums, vocals), Glenn Frey (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Don Felder (guitar, slide guitar, vocals), Joe Walsh (guitar, keyboards, vocals). Randy Meisner (bass, vocals). Produced ...
The Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 December 1976
On the border? They go straight down the middle ...
The Eagles: Life in the Fast Lane
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 8 January 1977
"A friend of mine in L.A. said 'talkin' about music is a lot like singing about football'." — Jackson Browne. ...
The Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, February 1977
To many rock connoisseurs, Eagles records are about as appetizing as a Jumbo Jack: heavy on the packaging, standardized for mass-consumption, with nothing but go ...
Comment by David Hancock, National RockStar, 5 February 1977
'A cheap sold-out group ten years behind the times' bristles DAVID HANCOCK ...
The Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum)
Review by Stephen Demorest, Circus, 17 March 1977
LISTEN, I'M willing to believe these guys are trying. I'm just glad I'm not buying. Don't you become one of their statistics, either. Hotel California ...
The Eagles: One Of These Nightmares
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, April 1977
Say a Prayer for the Pretenders... ...
The Eagles: The Long Run (Asylum)
Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979
THE POLITICS of pop have always been anathema to me. I cannot, and will not, shift my allegiances from an underrated or up-and-coming band when ...
The Eagles: The Long Run (Asylum)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 29 September 1979
THE DOMINANT rumour being touted around The Eagles' camp to explain the three year gap between Hotel California and The Long Run was, I recall, that this project was ...
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk and The Eagles' The Long Run
Review by Al Aronowitz, The Washington Post, 14 November 1979
LONG AND EAGERLY AWAITED, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk comes as the most spectacular event in records since Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Less ...
The Eagles: Boston Garden, Boston
Live Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 13 December 1979
The Eagles: takin' it easy in Boston ...
The Eagles' Don Felder: A Short Run To the Top
Profile and Interview by David Gans, Axe Magazine, 1980
IT SEEMED as though Don Felder came from nowhere to join The Eagles during the recording of On The Border (he is listed with ...
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 March 1980
THE EAGLES on home turf in California, even if it does rain more here in the north. ...
Randy Meisner: Ex-Eagle Flies High Solo
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 7 November 1980
DURING THE FRANTIC throes of the late '60s, this city devoured more musicians than it rewarded. The situation hasn't changed much since. But back in ...
The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac: Live
Review by Robot A. Hull, The Washington Post, 28 December 1980
LIVE ROCK ALBUMS, especially the pompous two-record variety, generally are an excuse for extended guitar work and prolonged drum solos. A marketing strategy and a ...
Interview by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Record Producers', 1982
THERE CAN'T BE too many people whose surnames have eight letters, none of which is a vowel, but it hardly needs to be said that ...
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Record, 1986
YOU'RE DON HENLEY. You spent the '70s behind a drum kit as a part of the Eagles, the quintessential American band of the era. Millions ...
Glenn Frey: Life After The Eagles
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, The Independent, 2 July 1992
GLENN FREY's just-released Strange Weather has all the guitar interplay, sheer whimsy and wry lyrical content you'd expect from the man who helped to write ...
The Eagles: McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 July 1996
IF YOU were wondering what happened to the British summer, then spare a thought for the residents of Hell, California, whose habitat has frozen over. ...
'We're the F***in' Eagles. Kiss My Ass!'
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, August 1996
Thus, in 1972, spake Bernie Leadon, then guitarist with FM country rock's Biggest Band Ever. As their Hell Freezes Over tour hits the UK, and ...
Oldies But Goodies: The Eagles, Chicago, Crosby Stills & Nash
Essay by Debbie Kruger, Weekend Australian, 7 March 1998
GROUPS SUCH AS the Eagles, Chicago and Crosby Stills & Nash sold millions of records here in their heydey – the Eagles still do – ...
The Eagles/Jackson Browne/Linda Ronstadt: Live at Staples Center, Los Angeles
Live Review by Erik Himmelsbach, Rolling Stone, 17 February 2000
THE KINGS of Country Rock have been on ice for the better part of two decades. Still, they earned most of their reported $7 million ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Don Henley, b. 22 July 1946, Linden, Texas, USA; Glenn Frey, b. 6 November 1946, Detroit, Michigan; Bernie Leadon, b. 19 July 1947, Minneapolis, Minnesota ...
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, January 2001
Fans of European football (soccer to all you Americanos out there) will already know that Italian maestro Roberto Baggio – he of the Buddhist beliefs ...
The Eagles: You can break up any time you like, but you can never leave
Report by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 5 June 2001
"WHILE THE BAND did break up in 1980, our music continued without us," wrote Eagles founder member Glenn Frey last year. "It was becoming increasingly ...
Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Guardian, 12 June 2001
WITH MANY tickets costing £60, an official baseball top going for a mere £70 and queues of more than 30 minutes to enter Earls Court, ...
Play It as It Lays: David Geffen and Asylum Records
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California' (4th Estate), 2005
This is an excerpt from Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons (Fourth Estate, 2005) ...
Book Review by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 13 November 2005
DOES NARCISSISM have a sound? If it does, it is surely a dulcet, soft, melodic, tender sound. The music – for narcissism is nothing if ...
Big Tit Sue and Bigger Tit Sue: Torrid Tales of the Troubadour
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Hotel California', 2006
UP ON THE Sunset Strip, the live scene was hurting. Name bands were now too big to play small clubs like the Whisky: they'd be ...
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Daily Telegraph, 1 November 2007
THE EAGLES became the ultimate '70s super-band, and their habitat was super-bowls and stadiums. Thus the opportunity to see them in the comparatively miniscule Indigo2 ...
Eagles: Long Road Out Of Eden (Universal)
Review by Max Bell, Classic Rock, December 2007
WHEN STEELY DAN sang the immortal line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbours are listening" on their mid-'70s sex-swinging party anthem 'Everything You Did', the ...
The Eagles: Long Road Out Of Eden
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, December 2007
THE STANDARD-BEARERS of L.A. rock's second wave, the Eagles were a streamlined hybrid of proven rock strategies. ...
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 21 March 2008
KINGS OF '70s Californian rock, the Eagles last night commenced a five-date run at London's O2 by proving their glories do not just reside in ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, July 2009
THE BABY BOOMER rockers of the 1960s and 1970s will clearly never die — they just become more popular and more profitable every year. ...
Where Eagles Dared: California's Signature Rock Band Comes to London
Report by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 29 April 2013
Messrs. Schmit, Henley, Frey and Walsh (photo: Debbie Kruger) WELCOME TO the Hotel Connaught, the plush old Mayfair institution where Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh ...
Henry Diltz: Caught in the Canyon
Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 26 May 2013
He photographed the most enduring images of the '60s folk-rock stars who lived in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon. Now Henry Diltz stars in a documentary about ...
The Eagles: History Of The Eagles: The Story Of An American Band ****
Film/DVD/TV Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2013
How did these guys ever write 'Peaceful Easy Feeling'? Candid, rarely self-serving rock doc reveals The Eagles, heart, soul, warts and all, says Phil Sutcliffe ...
Report by Debbie Kruger, Rhythms, June 2013
The London press conference for the release of History Of The Eagles reveals that the band will return to Australia. Again. ...
Don Felder Surprised at Ex-Eagles Mates' Ill Will Toward Him
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 16 May 2014
WHEN GUITARIST Don Felder joined the Eagles in 1974, he was seen by many as a sort of bridge member, as the band was morphing ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 25 June 2014
"WE'LL PLAY TOGETHER AGAIN when hell freezes over," insisted the Eagles' Don Henley when the 70s' biggest-selling American band fell apart in 1980, amid drug ...
Essay by Deanne Stillman, Los Angeles Review of Books, 23 August 2014
FOR THE PAST three years, I've been away from California, living in Arizona but returning to the Golden State as much as I could. It ...
Charles Manson and the Death of the Californian Dream
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Sabotage Times, 17 November 2014
The swinging '60s in the Golden State – California. A decade of sex, drink, drugs and debauchery soundtracked by the Beach Boys, the Eagles and ...
Boyd Elder: Encounters of the Southwestern Kind
Report and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 31 March 2015
A close encounter with the artist who created the skull art for Eagles' One of These Nights and Their Greatest Hits. ...
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 1 October 2015
YOU WOULD NEVER know that a member of the biggest American band in history had just entered the building. Dressed down in chequered shirt and ...
Eagles: The Heroes Or Villains Of '70s Rock?
Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Classic Rock, 6 October 2015
The band who took country-rock to the masses ...
Obituary by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 19 January 2016
Singer and guitarist with the US rock band the Eagles, and co-writer of such memorable songs as 'Hotel California', 'New Kid in Town' and 'Heartache ...
Glenn Frey (1948-2016) — Take It To The Limit.
Obituary by Rob Hughes, Uncut, April 2016
THE INDEFATIGABLE EAGLE remembered by J D Souther, Don Felder and more: "We all looked to him for direction." ...
Trouble in Paradise: The Eagles' Hotel California and mid-'70s Los Angeles
Retrospective by Ed Doheny, Rock's Backpages, November 2017
DON HENLEY once described the Eagles' 1976 album Hotel California as "our interpretation of the high life of Los Angeles", adding that the band had ...
(No) AMF, Boyd Elder: Texas "Artlaw" Dead at 74
Memoir by Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 30 October 2018
LEGENDARY TEXAS multi-media fine artist and rock 'n' roll "artlaw" Boyd Elder, who spent a lifetime expressing his artistic vision with often flagrant disregard for convention ...
Live Review by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 24 June 2019
Their split was so severe that they titled their by-no-means-inevitable 1994 reunion album Hell Freezes Over, but now it seems not even the death of ...
see also Flying Burrito Brothers
see also Glenn Frey
see also Don Henley
see also Randy Meisner
see also Linda Ronstadt
see also J. D. Souther
see also Joe Walsh
see also Hearts & Flowers
see also Bernie Leadon
see also Don Felder
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