On the day The Eagles released their "History of the Eagles" on DVD, they've also released another handful of tour dates including a stop in the Twin Cities in September.
For the Eagles' Glenn Frey, popular singing televised contests like 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' are nothing more than an opportunity for singing hopefuls to take the stage and oversing. He has a message for its contestants: Tone it down a bit...
When Don Henley and Glenn Frey set about authorizing the new documentary 'History of the Eagles,' they took the unusual step of securing an Oscar-winning filmmaker to produce -- because, as Frey put it in a recent interview with the New York Times, "Our management sent me what they thought were some of the best music documentaries that had been done. And I wasn’t crazy about any of it."
Eagles co-founder Don Henley told Rolling Stone that he made his way through the clubs with his pre-Eagles band Shiloh, but learned much of what he knows about songwriting from bandmate Glenn Frey and frequent co-writing friends Jackson Browne and JD Souther.
Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder says that due to some pretty brutal legal battles earlier in the decade, his relationship with the still-active member of the Eagles in essentially nil.
Ex-Eagles guitarist Don Felder says the song wasn't going to be on The Long Run album until the band realized that Glenn Frey wasn't singing lead on any of the songs!