The Country music community is still reeling TODAY (1/19) after YESTERDAY’s (1/18) passing of EAGLES co-founder GLENN FREY (NET NEWS 1/18).
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The band’s hit songs included yearning, battle-of-the-sexes musings like Lyin’ Eyes and Heartache Tonight, and the cool-cat lifestyle statements Take It Easy and Peaceful Easy Feeling, all of which featured Frey’s light, casual, relaxed lead vocals, as well as the No. 1 hit Hotel California, the band’s signature song from its 1977 album of the same name. The two took parts in singing their songs.
“I’m not sure I believe in fate, but I know that crossing paths with Glenn Lewis Frey in 1970 changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet”, he writes.
The band’s warring egos exploded during an infamous 1980 concert in Long Beach, California, when Frey threatened to kill guitarist Don Felder, shattered a beer bottle against a wall, and Felder smashed his guitar before storming off.
The band released some of the most popular songs of the 1970s: “Take It Easy”, written by Frey and Jackson Browne, is irresistible with Frey singing lead and the band’s harmonies intact, and “Hotel California”, the moody soft rock track, is simply a classic.
The Eagles postponed their participation in the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors earlier this month because of Frey’s illness. After the Eagles’ 1980 breakup, Frey launched a successful solo career, recording numerous hits like “The heat is on’ and “You belong to the city'”. Felder would remember first playing with them and wondering even then if they would break up. “He was the leader and everybody looked up to him”, Felder said Tuesday of Frey, who died Monday at age 67 after battling a variety of health problems.
Irving also paid tribute to Frey’s talents.
Famous Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey passed away at only sixty-seven-years-old following complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. It went multiplatinum and was named album of the year in 1994 by the Country Music Association.
In that song Frey and Henley wrote of the Hollywood excesses that overwhelmed them: “Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice, And she said: ‘We are all just prisoners here of our own device'”.
Glenn Frey from USA rock band The Eagles performing at The Superdome, Homebush, Sydney.
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Glenn was amusing, strong, generous and kind.
