8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Eagles
Only one of the Eagles was actually a California native — but which one? Which of their famous country-rock classics originally had a celestial theme? Which video shoot played a key role in their eventual reunion?
Ultimate Classic Rock explores that, and more, with this list of 8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Eagles:
1. One of Glenn Frey’s earliest pre-Eagles managers, Punch Andrews, also looked after Bob Seger’s fledgling career. That’s Frey singing backup on
2. The Eagles not only spent three years but also a then-amazing $800,000 trying to complete a follow up to ‘Hotel California,’ often finding that
4. ‘Long Road Out of Eden,’ the Eagles belated 2007 full-length follow up to ‘The Long Run,’ was sold exclusively through Walmart.
5. This most California of bands was, almost to a man, nothing of the sort. Frey and Henley were transplants from Michigan and Texas,
7. Bill Szymczyk, who has produced or co-produced every Eagles album since 1974’s ‘On the Border,’ had earlier worked with Joe Walsh on his
8. The narrative twists in the Eagles’ title track for ‘Hotel California’ grew out of an admiring for the tandem work of another classic rock act,